Keyboard Studies

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With its internationally renowned performance faculty, favorable student-teacher ratio, and state-of-the-arts facilities, the Keyboard area provides first-class education for both aspiring performers and future pedagogues. Degrees are designed to develop the pianistic skills students will need as professionals and to broaden their knowledge and understanding of music history, literature, and theory.

Students cover a wide range of repertoire including music by living composers and have opportunities to perform in solo recitals, with chamber ensembles, and as concerto soloists with orchestra as well as participate in supervised student teaching opportunities in the community.

Facilities

The School of Music building contains two recital halls, a 15,000 square foot music library, forty-four teaching studios, and seventy-six practice rooms, many of them with Steinway grand pianos reserved exclusively for piano majors. The school is close to becoming an “All-Steinway School”. The 560-seat Margaret Comstock Concert Hall houses two Steinway concert grand pianos, including a spectacular new Hamburg Steinway purchased from the Hamburg factory in June 2019. In addition, the hall has a 64-rank Steiner-Reck organ, the largest of its kind in the Midwest. Also available to students are five harpsichords and a number of practice organs. A class piano lab consists of 20 Yamaha Clavinova keyboards.

Previous Guest Artists

Recent guest artists who have given recitals, master classes or residencies

Alicia de Larrocha, Richard Glazier, Richard Goode, Lee Luvisi (UofL Professor Emeritus), and Russell Sherman

2017 Van Cliburn Competition Winners

Yekwon Sunwoo, Gold Medalist
Kenneth Broberg, Silver Medalist
Rachel Cheung, Audience Favorite Award

2013 Van Cliburn Competition Winners

Vadym Kholodenko, Gold Medalist
Beatrice Rana, Silver Medalist
Sean Chen, Crystal Winner

2009 Van Cliburn Competition Winners

Haochen Zhang, Gold Medalist
Yeol Yun Sum, Silver Medalist

2005 Van Cliburn Competition Winners

Alexander Kobrin, Gold Medalist
Joyce Yang, Silver Medalist
Sa Chen, Crystal Winner

2001 Van Cliburn Competition Winners

Olga Kern and Stanislav Ioudenitch, Gold Medalists
Maxim Philippov and Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Silver Medalists

Other Competition Winners 

Tian Ying, 1989 Van Cliburn Competition Finalist
Ning An, 2003 William Kapell Piano Competition Winner
Wendy Chen, 1997 Young Concert Artists Winner
Richard Kogan, Concert Artists Guild Winner, Chopin Competition of Kosciuszko Foundation Winner
Chu-Fang Huang, Winner, 2005 Cleveland International Piano Competition
Kotaro Fukuma, Winner, 2003 Cleveland International Piano Competition
Minsoo Sohn, First Laureate, 2006 Honens International Piano Competition

Faculty Information

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