Featured 2010 CASS Recital
Steinway Hall at Irene Besse Keyboards
6999 - 11 Street SE, Calgary, Alberta
August 4, 2010 7:00 pm
Program to be announced
Tickets are available in advance and at the door.
Update August 5: Dr. Bryanskaya and Joseph Fridman presented a superb concert of piano solos and duets to a large and appreciative audience! Those who came were treated to a wonderful evening of exciting and dynamic piano playing.
Reuniting a former student with his piano pedagogy teacher from St. Petersburg State Conservatory, Russia, CASSA presents Mr. Joseph Fridman from Edmonton, Alberta (CASS Piano Camp clinician and teacher since 2005) and master teacher Dr. Faina Bryanskaya from Boston, Massachusetts.
These artists will collaborate in a concert featuring piano solos, duets and lectures on the music of Scarlatti, Schubert, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev.
Dr. Faina Bryanskaya
Photo and biographical information courtesy of Longy School of Music
Dr. Bryanskaya is an internationally acclaimed pedagogue who has been called “Teacher of Teachers.” In the former Soviet Union, she was founder and methodological advisor of the Advanced Training for Teachers of Music Schools, Colleges, and Conservatories, as well as Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Conservatory and faculty at Mussorgsky Music College. She has also served as faculty at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ and conducted coaching/ teaching demonstrations and interactive sessions at World Piano Pedagogy Conferences.
Dr. Bryanskaya teaches at the Longy School of Music located in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Longy School of Music is one of the four independent degree-granting music schools in the Boston region along with the New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and Boston Conservatory.
Certification: M.A. with honours, Ph.D., St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Studied with Natan Perelman. Lectures, workshops, and master classes in Russia, Israel, Germany, Poland, The Netherlands, and the U.S., including MTNA conventions. Solo/duo performance in Russia, at the Silesia International Music and Wellness Festival in Poland, at the Smith Center for the Arts at Providence College, and live on WGBH Boston radio and St. Petersburg TV, Russia.
Joseph Fridman
Joseph Fridman comes to us from Edmonton. He is an incredible musician who unreservedly loves, lives and breathes music. He has earned two master’s degrees, one as a pianist and one as an opera director. Both degrees are from the world-renowned St. Petersburg State Conservatory (Russia ). He is a concert pianist, teacher, vocal coach and accompanist. He taught at the Schools for Musically Gifted Children of St. Petersburg and Kiev and the Pskov Music College and performed with the St. Petersburg and Pskov Philharmonics.
Mr. Fridman served on the faculty of the Alberta College Conservatory of Music from 1991 till 2002 and taught in the Conservatory’s International Music Academy and the University of Alberta. Mr. Fridman is a director and teacher of the Alberta Music Academy. He lectures and gives masterclasses and workshops in Canada, Ukraine, Russia and the USA. He has taught in various summer schools: “Strings and Keys” (Bergen), Alberta College summer school (Edmonton) and now as a clinician with CASSA.
Mr. Fridman has adjudicated a number of festivals and competitions, including the prestigious Canadian Music Competition (2004). His piano students have received first class honors and medals in RCM Exams, first and second prizes in the Kiwanis Festival, Northern Alberta Concerto Competition and Fall Festival. Mr. Fridman performs in solo and chamber recitals and has been broadcast frequently on CBC Radio.
