Piano

Faculty: Jeffrey L. Shumway, Irene Perry-Fox, Richard Anderson, Scott L. Holden, and Harvey Rich 

Enrollment is limited to 48 pianists

Participants receive daily private or semi-private lessons covering repertoire, technique, and sight-reading. Students also will attend daily piano literature and keyboard skills classes. Organ classes are also offered. Participants are required to bring to the SummerFestival two pieces, one memorized and ready to perform and the second in some state of preparation.

Your Monday audition will include performance of the memorized repertoire piece. Teacher assignments will be made that afternoon, at which time students will meet their teacher for the week and arrange lesson times.

Tuesday through Friday mornings there will be classes in keyboard skills, including sight-reading, keyboard harmony, improvisation, technique, and playing by ear. Piano literature classes are organized by style periods, and students will have the opportunity to perform in these classes. Pianists also participate in daily choir rehearsals and will perform with the choir on Saturday.

Teachers will be members of the BYU piano faculty. Daily lessons may include intensive work on repertoire, sight-reading, and possibly piano duo or piano quartet ensembles. Several pianists will be chosen to perform on the Thursday night student recital. All pianists will have the opportunity to play on Saturday morning in the piano concert.

Other courses, which students may select at their option, include theory, conducting, performance enhancement, and music literature. Students will be asked to practice on their own each day in the practice rooms of the Harris Fine Arts Center.

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