RESUME
Education
2004 Doctor of Musical Arts University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
2001 Master of Music UCLA
1999 Bachelor of Arts UCLA
Teachers
1995 - 2004 Prof. Vitaly Margulis (Piano)
2000 - 2003 Prof. Mark Kaplan (Chamber Music)
2003 - 2004 Prof. Robert Winter (Dissertation Advisor)
Masterclasses
Natalia Antonova, Dimitri Bashkirov, Sergei Dorensky, Midas Forrer, Elza Kolodin, Vitaly Margulis, Leontina Margulis, Victor Merzhanov, Murray Perahia, Robert Ward, Martyn van den Hoeck
Teaching Experience
2010 - Present Piano Faculty at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View (CSMA)
2009 - 2010 Piano faculty at several music schools and academies in the San Francisco bay area, including Veksler Academy of Music, Gorin School of Music, Jou Music Institute
2006 - 2009 Southwest Music Conservatory, piano faculty at private music school in Fountain Valley, private lessons for students of all ages and levels, assessment at annual performance exams, preparation of students for recitals and Certificate of Merit exams including performance, theory, ear-training, sight-reading, technique
2004 - 2006 Freelance concert pianist and piano teacher in Germany, private students of all ages and levels, performances as a recitalist, chamber-musician, and accompanist of singers and other instrumentalists
2003 Orange County High School of the Arts, presentation of one-day masterclass, teaching of advanced high school piano students, focus on problems of interpretation, style, polyphony, technique in selected repertoire performed by the students
2002 - 2003 UCLA, Teaching Associate, class piano in basic keyboard skills and music fundamentals; beginning, intermediate, and advanced level; assessment and placement of incoming undergraduate music majors, evaluation at midterm and final exams
2002 - 2003 UCLA Music Partnership Program, piano teacher at Boys and Girls' Club Hollywood, private and group instruction for young children, ear-training, interval-drill, basic rhythmic patterns, and beginners' piano technique
2001 - 2002 UCLA, Teaching Assistant, private piano lessons for undergraduate composition and music education majors, preparation and evaluation at juries, sight-reading, analysis of pianistic problems, musical structures and collaboration with student composers on their piano works
1991 - present Private piano instructor, students of all ages and levels, lessons in performance, technique, theory; coaching of singers, instrumentalists, and chamber-groups
Other Professional Experience
2008 - 2009 Biola University, staff pianist for vocalists and instrumentalists, rehearsal pianist for opera production, performances at faculty recital, opera scenes program, master-classes
Performance Experience (selected)
Concerto Soloist
2007 Beethoven Emperor Concerto, City Orchestra Titisee-Neustadt conducted by Prof. Peter Baberkoff, Germany, sold-out performance sponsored by German bank Sparkasse
2004 Beethoven Triple Concerto with UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra
2002 Symphony-Concert devoted to America, Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue and MacDowell Concerto, City Orchestra Titisee-Neustadt conducted by Johannes Goetz, Germany, German premiere of MacDowell Concerto
2002 Rachmaninoff Second Concerto with UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Prof. Jon Robertson, Schoenberg Hall UCLA
2001 Beethoven Emperor Concerto at Piano Fest in Bad Aussee, Austria, Musik Zentral Festival Orchestra conducted by Prof. Jon Robertson
2000 Mozart Concerto K482 at Piano Fest in Bad Aussee, Austria, Musik Zentral Festival Orchestra conducted by Prof. Jon Robertson
1996 Rachmaninoff Second Concerto, City Orchestra Titisee-Neustadt conducted by Johannes Goetz, Germany
1994 Grieg Concerto, City Orchestra Titisee-Neustadt conducted by Johannes Goetz, Germany
1993 Beethoven First Concerto, State Youth Orchestra Baden-Wuerttemberg conducted by Prof. Thomas Ungar, concert tour in Southern Germany, CD production and radio broadcast of final concert on German radio Suedwestfunk
1992 Orchestra debut with Mozart Concerto K482, City Orchestra Titisee-Neustadt conducted by Miguel Angel Monroy, Germany
Recital
2013 Faculty recital at Finn Center, CSMA
2009 Accompanist for Faculty Recital at Biola University
2007 Guest artist for MTAC South Bay branch meeting, selections from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
2006 Shared faculty recital at Southwest Music Conservatory, Fountain Valley, selections from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
2005 Solo Recitals in Germany sponsored by German bank Sparkasse, works by Beethoven (Appassionata, Les Adieux), Chopin, Liszt, Brahms
2004 Final Doctoral Recital at UCLA: Franz Liszt - From Transcription to Paraphrase; program includes "Gretchen" from Faust-Symphony, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Schubert songs, the Don Juan Fantasy, and world-premiere of "Azul", a newly commissioned seven-movement work by Youngkyong Kim
2003 Guest artist at International Conservatory Week St. Petersburg, Russia, solo performance (Don Juan Fantasy) and collaboration with faculty and students of St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory
2003 Entrepreneurial Doctoral Recital at Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church, program includes Beethoven's Sonata op. 106 "Hammerklavier", Chopin's Polonaise-Fantasie, and Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2 B-flat minor in the demanding original version
2002 Shared recital at World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Las Vegas, Adagio from Beethoven's "Hammerklavier"-Sonata and Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2
2001 Master of Music Recital at Schoenberg Hall UCLA, works by Beethoven, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, and Lefkowitz
1999 Recital at Franz Liszt Museum in Budapest, Hungary, program includes B minor Sonata, Vallée d'Obermann, and Rhapsodie Espagnole by Liszt
1998 Recital for Rotary Club Black Forest in Germany, benefit concert for local school for disabled children, works by Mozart, Schumann, Liszt, and Prokofiev
1998 Performance in 70th Birthday Recital for Prof. Margulis at Schoenberg Hall UCLA, other performers include Martha Argerich
1993 Shared Recital "Young Talents" in Europa Concert Hall Bayreuth, Germany, works by Prokofiev include "Romeo and Juliet" and Toccata op. 11
1992 Concert-tour Italy sponsored by "Deutscher Musikrat", shared recitals at Goethe-Institutes in Rome, Tarquinia, Naples, and Salerno
1990 First solo recital in Germany, works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofiev
Chamber-music
2009 Pianist for Opera Scenes Program at Biola University
2008 Invitation to perform with Grammy-winning Southwest Chamber Music
2004 Two performances with Grammy-winning Southwest Chamber Music, arrangement of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and Herbert Zipper Hall at Colburn School of Performing Arts, Los Angeles
2003 Performance of Beethoven's Violin Sonata op. 12 No. 3 in a concert of the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin, Schoenberg Hall UCLA
2001 Performance with New Music Ensemble at UCLA in a concert presented by Prof. David Lefkowitz
2000 Saint-Saëns Carneval of the Animals, City Orchestra Titisee-Neustadt conducted by Johannes Goetz, Germany
1999 Chamber Music Recitals in Los Angeles and Washington DC with Austrian violinist David Fruehwirth
1995 Performance at Brahms-Festival in Baden-Baden, Germany, Brahms C Major Piano Trio
Frequent performances as an accompanist of instrumentalists and singers at UCLA, see Outreach for more chamber-music performance activity
Honors and Awards
Piano Competitions
2002 First Prize UCLA Concerto Competition, Performance with UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra
1998 First Prize Los Angeles Liszt Competition, Budapest Concert winner
1998 First Prize Rubyini Piano Competition UCLA
1997 Third Prize IBLA Competition in Ragusa, Sicily
1996 First Prize Los Angeles Liszt Competition
1994 Sixth Place International Competition Senigallia, Italy
1993 Second Prize Nationwide German Chamber Music Competition "Jugend musiziert" Piano Trio
1992 First Prize Nationwide German Piano Competition "Jugend musiziert",
highest possible score against more than 3000 competitors in age group,
CD production and radio broadcast of prize-winners' concert on German radio Bayerischer Rundfunk
Five additional first prizes at local piano competitions in Germany after 1990
Scholarships
2004 UCLA Graduate Recognition Award
2003 UCLA Dissertation Year Award
2002 Meyers Award
2002 UCLA Gluck Outreach Fellowship
2001 UCLA Gluck Outreach Fellowship
2000 UCLA Gluck Outreach Fellowship
1997 UC Regents Scholarship
1995 Sophia Guzik Scholarship
1992 Edwin-Fischer-Stipendienfond
1992 Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
Other
2004 Commencement speaker for the graduation ceremony of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture
Publications
Dissertation: Franz Liszt and the Don Juan Fantasy: An Interpretive Study of Meaning and Dramatic Narrative, UCLA Library
Outreach
2002 - 2003 Piano teacher for UCLA Music Partnership Program at Boys and Girls' Club Hollywood, music instruction opportunities for inner-city communities and disadvantaged youths
2000 - 2003 Member of piano-trio for Gluck Outreach Program, performance of twelve chamber-music concerts every year in the community at hospitals, retirement homes, schools, kindergartens
Administrative
2011 - 2013 Faculty representative for piano area at CSMA
2001 - 2002 Orchestra Manager for UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra, production of seating charts, concert programs, ordering and distribution of music, hiring of substitute players
1995 - 2004 Concert programming, marketing, publicity, and promotion of quarterly student piano recitals for Prof. Margulis at UCLA
Adjudication
2009 CAMPT Romantic Impressionistic Festival
2009 Southern California Junior Bach Festival/Orange County North Branch
2008 MTAC Long Beach Sonata/Sonatina Competition
2007 Evaluation of piano majors at Rubinyi Piano Competition at UCLA
2006, 2007 Annual performance exam at Southwest Conservatory
2003 Piano juries of undergraduate music majors at UCLA
Professional Organizations
MTAC Music Teachers' Association of California
MTNA Music Teachers National Association
CMS College Music Society
Festivals
Russian School Freiburg, Heinrich Neuhaus Stiftung Zurich, Villa Medici Milano, Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Piano Fest Austria, Wiener Meisterkurse, International Summer Academy Salzburg, International Conservatory Week St. Petersburg, World Piano Pedagogy Conference Las Vegas
Languages
English, German
References
Available on request