Pianist William Westney To Give Free Recital At SMU's Meadows School Of The Arts Contact Victoria Winkelman. SMU Meadows School of the Arts ( 214) 7683785 ( NOTE Jpeg photo available.) October 24, 2003. pianist william westney To Give Free Recital At SMU's Meadows School Of The Arts, Oct. 30 DALLAS (SMU) - Internationally-known pianist william westney will give a free recital at 8 p http://www.smu.edu/newsinfo/releases/m0321.html
Extractions: (NOTE: Jpeg photo available.) October 24, 2003 DALLAS (SMU) - Internationally-known pianist William Westney will give a free recital at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30, in Caruth Auditorium, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus. He will perform works by Schubert, Chopin and Bartók, as well as Duke Ellington's "Caravan" and William Bolcom's "Graceful Ghost Rag" and "Eubie's Lucky Day." No tickets are required. For more information, call 214-768-1951. Westney was the top piano prizewinner at the Geneva International Competition, and he appeared thereafter in European television broadcasts and as a soloist with such major orchestras as L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Houston, San Antonio and New Haven Symphonies. Westney holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College in New York and a master's and doctorate in performance from Yale University, all with highest honors. He was awarded a Fulbright grant for study in Italy, and while there was the only American winner in auditions held by Radiotelevisione Italiana. His solo recital appearances include New York's Lincoln Center, the National Gallery and Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., St. John's Smith Square in London, National Public Radio ("Performance Today"), Taiwan, Korea, and a U.S. State Department tour of Italy.
Publications And Recordings - The Perfect Wrong Note Discover the trailblazing work of william westney, the prizewinning concert pianist and educator, whose unique Un-Master Class has been called "fascinating" (NY Times)! groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator william westney explores some important paradoxes about contact us william westney. Phone 806-742-2270 ext 251 or http://www.williamwestney.com/perfectwrongnote.htm
Extractions: "The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self" In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney explores some important paradoxes about making music. Playing a wrong note can be a perfect event: constructive, useful, even enlightening. Misplaced perfectionism, in contrast, can hamper learning and rob us of the fulfillment and transcendent enjoyment that music can bring. Drawing on insight, experience, and wisdom ancient and modern, Westney lays out healthy alternatives for lifelong learning and suggests significant change in the way music is taught. Teachers, professionals, and advanced students of any instrument, as well as parents and music lovers of all ages, will find hope and inspiration in this wise teachers practical, clear guidance. Westneys approach makes eminent sense. Imagine a childs natural, joyful immersion in the musical moment. Then consider the loss of that spontaneity that too often results from formal music lessons. But this neednt be the case if we rethink what happens, and what can happen, in the practice room, in performance, and in music lessons. The energetic creator of the acclaimed Un-Master Class® also looks beyond the individual lesson to the special potential of group work. He outlines the basics of the revelatory workshop that has transformed the music experience for participants the world over. The goal: to bring artistic vitality, self-trust, and confidence within everyones reach.
William Westney Pittsburgh PostGazette July 17, 2003 pianist william westney was exemplary; ashe vented the melodies poignancy, he was virtually singing through his http://www.williamwestney.com/default.htm
Extractions: An engaging artist and insightful teacher and author, William Westney is available for concerts, workshops, lecture/demonstrations, and residencies in a wide variety of formats. He is also in demand as a performance consultant with individuals and performing groups. NEWS: A Book that is Making a Difference In November 2003, Amadeus Press released William Westneys first book, The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self. The culmination of 15 years of work, it explains his unique views on vitality and liberation through music. Its views on perfectionism are enlightening, down-to-earth, and empowering - and they apply to any reader. Pre-publication response was strongly positive: the work of a master teacher (Betty Edwards , author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain ); immensely
William Westney Discover the trailblazing work of william westney, the prizewinning concert pianist and educator, whose unique Un-Master Class has been called "fascinating" (NY Times)! July 17, 2003 pianist william westney was exemplary; as he artist and insightful teacher and author, william westney is available for concerts, workshops, lecture/demonstrations http://www.williamwestney.com/
Extractions: An engaging artist and insightful teacher and author, William Westney is available for concerts, workshops, lecture/demonstrations, and residencies in a wide variety of formats. He is also in demand as a performance consultant with individuals and performing groups. NEWS: A Book that is Making a Difference In November 2003, Amadeus Press released William Westneys first book, The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self. The culmination of 15 years of work, it explains his unique views on vitality and liberation through music. Its views on perfectionism are enlightening, down-to-earth, and empowering - and they apply to any reader. Pre-publication response was strongly positive: the work of a master teacher (Betty Edwards , author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain ); immensely
William Westney Artist In Residence At Adamant Music School Artist in Residence william westney. pianist william westney was the top piano prize-winner of the Geneva and New Haven Symphonies. westney holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from http://www.adamant.org/westney.htm
Extractions: Pianist WILLIAM WESTNEY was the top piano prize-winner of the Geneva International Competition, and he appeared thereafter in European television broadcasts and as soloist with such major orchestras as l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Houston, San Antonio and New Haven Symphonies. Westney holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College in New York and a Masters and Doctorate in performance from Yale University, all with highest honors. He was awarded a Fulbright grant for study in Italy, and while there, was the only American winner in auditions held by Radiotelevisione Italiana. His solo recital appearances include New York's Lincoln Center, the National Gallery and Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., St. John's Smith Square in London, National Public Radio ("Performance Today"), Taiwan, Korea, and a U.S. State Department tour of Italy.
SMU News 2003-2004 - News & Media Relations - SMU Nov. 12 (10/27/03). pianist william westney To Give Free Recital AtSMU s Meadows School Of The Arts, Oct. 30 (10/27/03). SMU s Meadows http://www.smu.edu/newsinfo/nrindex2003.asp
Extractions: Search text Submit search Redirect to another SMU site SMU Links About SMU Academics Academic Calendar Administration Admission Athletics Calendars Campus Life Campus Maps E-mail Search Emergency Information Employers Employment Financial Aid Human Resources Giving to SMU Libraries Meadows Museum News Public Affairs Registrar Site Index Student Accounts University Housing Visit SMU Public Affairs News and Media Relations SMU News 2003-2004 Click on any link below to go to that section. Student News STUDENT NEWS San Antonio Master's Program Expanding Courses The Ultimate Exam: Creating Machines To Aid Others Students From SMU's Temerlin Advertising Institute Win Regional Division, Will Advance To Finals of 2004 AAF National Student Advertising Competition U.S. Ambassador To Mexico To Give SMU Commencement Address; Three Honorary Degrees To Be Conferred ... Spirituality Of Tai Chi Check out more upcoming SMU events on the SMU Online Calendar LIBRARIES SMU Central University Libraries Announces New Staff Hamon Arts Library Presents "The Art Of Conserving A Legacy: Greer Garson's 'Auntie Mame' Scrapbook," Jan. 23-Mar.7
Artist-Show - The Largest Art Link Site In The World! westney, william provides information on the concert pianist and educator.Wong, David - provides schedule and background for the American pianist. http://www.artist-show.com/ArtFields/Music/MuLinks/Classical/Artists/Piano.html
Extractions: Piano Ax, Emanuel - highly regarded for his poetic lyricism and brilliant technique. Barenboim, Daniel - official website for the conductor and pianist. Barrenechea-Cabeza - provides information on this piano duo. Includes bio. and repertoire. Baxtresser, Margaret - explores the enchanting, nature-filled world of Claude Debussy and the Impressionist Painters. Beataonline - concert pianist - presentation, concerts, repertoire, discography of Beata Szalwinska, a Polish concert pianist, living in Luxembourg. Bekhterev, Boris - provides information on the Russian-born pianist. Berman, Bart - Israeli concert pianist specializing in Schubert and contemporary music performance. Bezprozvannykh, Elena
Amadeus Press: Books On Music And Opera william westney. william westney holds two endowed faculty positions at Texas Tech University Paul An active concert pianist, he won the Geneva International Competition and holds http://www.amadeuspress.com/about/authors.cfm?ID=1101
Steinway Piano Festival pianist william westneywas the top piano prizewinner of the Geneva International Competition, and he New Haven Symphonies. westney holds a Masters and Doctorate in performance http://music.evansville.edu/Steinway piano festival.htm
Extractions: University of Evansville Department of Music Steinway Dedication Festival September 12 - 14, 2003 featuring recitals, lectures and master classes with international artists Marc-André Hamelin William Westney and Department of Music Keyboard Faculty Anne Fiedler Douglas Reed Garnet Ungar I n the fall of 2002, the UE Department of Music gratefully received the anonymous donation of six Steinway grand pianos. In celebration of this gift, the Department is sponsoring a piano festival featuring two guest artists of international stature joined by the UE keyboard faculty in solo performances and classes. Students, performers, teachers and all lovers of the piano are invited to join us for an exciting weekend of music. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS All events take place in Wheeler Concert Hall. Tickets are required for all events. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 7:30 p.m. Opening Recital UE faculty Anne Fiedler , Douglas Reed, Garnet Ungar Program Schubert: Sonata in A Major, D. 959 Debussy: Two Preludes, Poissons dor from Images
Yale Bulletin And Calendar pianist william westney led music students through physical exercisesbefore they performed for his unmaster class. Un-master http://www.yale.edu/opa/v32.n11/story7.html
Extractions: tune their inner instruments Acclaimed pianist and music professor William Westney is not fomenting revolution among music students, but his "un-master classes," like the one he held at Yale, do fly in the face of certain staid traditions. Standing in front of the class, Westney began by asking the students to try to remember a particularly moving performance, their own or someone else's. After the physical exercises had, as Westney put it, "opened the class up in that two-year-old way," he declared that the students were ready for the performance phase of the workshop. He told the students that, unlike normal master classes, they could not critique their fellow performers for their technical skills they could only respond by saying, "here's what I got out of it." By Dorie Baker
Yale School Of Music - Alumni pianist william westney led music students through physical exercises before they performed Acclaimed pianist and music professor william westney is not fomenting revolution among http://www.yale.edu/schmus/alum/alumnifromindex2.html
Westney Recital Renowned pianist william westney to Give KoontsLampton Keyboard RecitalNov. 1. Prize-winning pianist and noted educator william http://www.erskine.edu/news/westney.10.12.99.html
Extractions: Netnews Back Issues Virtual Tour Mission Statement Academics ... Search Erskine Renowned Pianist William Westney to Give Koonts-Lampton Keyboard Recital Nov. 1 Westney is an honors graduate of Queens College in New York and holds the master's degree as well as a doctoral degree in performance from Yale University, both with honors. He was awarded a Fulbright grant for study in Italy, and while in Italy was the only American winner in auditions held by Radiotelevisione Italiana. He has appeared on European television broadcasts and as soloist with such major orchestras as l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Houston, San Antonio and New Haven Symphonies. Newsweek magazine. In addition to keeping up a successful performance career, Westney serves as the Browning Artist-in-Residence at Texas Tech University, and has been honored with several teaching awards, including the Yale School of Music Alumni Association's Certificate of Merit for his distinctive and innovative contributions to the teaching of musical performance. He was a guest professor at Tonghai University in Taiwan, where he has been invited back repeatedly to teach lessons and experimental classes. The Koonts-Lampton Keyboard series at Erskine features performances by significant regional artists on the piano, organ and harpsichord. Honoring the contributions of two retired music faculty members, Professors Cortlandt Koonts and Shirley Lampton, a Koonts-Lampton performance is offered each semester. Admission is free and the public is welcome to attend.
Fall Arts 99 1. 8 PM william westney, pianist, MEMORIAL HALL After his splendid performance herein 1994, internationally renowned pianist william westney returns to Erskine http://www.erskine.edu/news/fallarts99.html
Extractions: Netnews Back Issues Virtual Tour Mission Statement Academics ... Search Erskine Erskine Announces Fall Arts Schedule From Shakespeare done in sneakers to songs Jane Austen might have sung, Erskine College will offer a variety of arts experiences this fall. A full calendar of other events and exhibits will also entertain and inform the Erskine community and its guests. Oct. 28 11 A.M. DENNIS DEWEY, BIBLICAL STORYTELLER Oct. 31 3 PM CHORALEERS FALL CONCERT, STUDENT ARTIST SERIES, BOWIE CHAPEL
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Welcome To Piano.com for this British pianist. westney, william provides information onthe concert pianist and educator. Wild, Earl Wolfram, william http://www.piano.com/pianist/pianist_classical.cfm
Steinway Piano Festival pianist william westney was the top piano prizewinner of the Geneva InternationalCompetition, and he appeared thereafter in European television broadcasts http://www2.evansville.edu/Music/Steinway piano festival.htm
Extractions: University of Evansville Department of Music Steinway Dedication Festival September 12 - 14, 2003 featuring recitals, lectures and master classes with international artists Marc-André Hamelin William Westney and Department of Music Keyboard Faculty Anne Fiedler Douglas Reed Garnet Ungar I n the fall of 2002, the UE Department of Music gratefully received the anonymous donation of six Steinway grand pianos. In celebration of this gift, the Department is sponsoring a piano festival featuring two guest artists of international stature joined by the UE keyboard faculty in solo performances and classes. Students, performers, teachers and all lovers of the piano are invited to join us for an exciting weekend of music. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS All events take place in Wheeler Concert Hall. Tickets are required for all events. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 7:30 p.m. Opening Recital UE faculty Anne Fiedler , Douglas Reed, Garnet Ungar Program Schubert: Sonata in A Major, D. 959 Debussy: Two Preludes, Poissons dor from Images
Mason & Hamlin: What's New Piano Pedagogy Conference Mason Hamlin sponsored a showcase/ workshop featuringthe distinguished music educator and pianist, Dr. william westney, at the http://www.masonhamlin.com/whats-new/events.html
Extractions: will be performing at the Faust-Harrison Pianos showroom in New York City, as part of their "Pianists For The New Millennium" series on November 14, 2003, at 7 pm. Barnhart will be playing on a Mason & Hamlin Model BB, 7-ft. semi-concert grand. His program, called "An Evening Of Authentic American Ragtime, Stride and Beyond" will consist of early and contemporary American ragtime and stride piano music sprinkled with jazz standards. Included in the program will be the music of Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton and George Gershwin. A highlight of the evening will be the world premiers of two contemporary rags written for the piano and flute by Hal Isbitz and Fred Hoeptner. Classical flutist Anne Barnhart will join Mr. Barnhart on these as well as other pieces. Donald Shaw, Carl Tait share Gold Medal in Northeastern Classical Piano Competition Henri Delbeau takes First Prize in the 2nd annual Northeastern Classical Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs The Northeastern Classical Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs was held on May 19th in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Forty dedicated amateur classical pianists from around the United States competed for a $1,000 First Prize and a future recital at the showroom of Faust Harrison Pianos in New York City. Pianist Henri Delbeau, a physician from Jackson Heights, NY was awarded First Prize for his rich sound, virtuosity and exceptional musicality in performing Bach's
Mason & Hamlin - What's New Mason Hamlin sponsored a showcase/ workshop featuring the distinguished musiceducator and pianist, Dr. william westney, at the recent World Piano Pedagogy http://www.masonhamlin.com/whatsnew.html
Extractions: You can read the Boston Globe article clicking on this link The dramatic increase has been credited to four separate dealer training classes which were held this summer. The classes concentrated on the actual processes used by the company to build their handcrafted pianos. Conducted in the company's Haverhill, Massachusetts factory, the tour/classes took dealers through every step of production and to every floor of the building-from the basement, where the rim press department is located, to the 6th floor where the final finishing touches are given to each piano. "We made an all-out effort to educate our dealers and their sales personnel on the methods used to build the Mason & Hamlin piano. They were able to witness every step of our manufacturing, up close, note the quality of our raw materials, the painstaking attention we give to every detail and the repeated inspections every
MasterWorks You will also find Khachaturian s exuberance in his torrid Piano Concertomatched note for note by Lubbock s own great pianist william westney. http://interoz.com/lubbock/master.HTM
Extractions: All performances will be held at the Lubbock Civic Center Theatre * 8:1 P.M. For the first orchestral spectacular of The Golden Season, Maestro Schram has chosen a program of European and American MasterWorks which invoke in every way the exceptional artistry of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. The performance includes the string imagery of Wager's Overture to Die Meistersinger...Mozart's ebullient Symphony No. 29... the exciting, familiar pulse of Bernstein's brilliant Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"... and the virtuosic dynamism of Peck's The Glory and the Grandeur. The dramatic interpretation of this gifted American composer by the LSO percussion section can only be described as one for the memory books! Guest Artist: Livia Sohn, Violin Audiences will be thrilled by the LSO's intensely beautiful orchestral interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony, and by the sheer romance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor as performed by violin sensation, Vivia Sohn. Only 18 now, Ms. Sohn first performed this work at 12, the age at which she won the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. She has appeared with the Boston Pops at Chicago's Ravinia Festival, and with symphony orchestras throughout the U.S. Internationally she has performed in Europe, Korea, and the Middle East. Ms. Sohn currently studies in New York, where she also coaches chamber music at The Juilliard School. Virtuosi!
Extractions: TOP-LINK UP-LINK ADD URL SEARCH ... E-MAIL PIANISTS LINKS Arbiter's Museum of Historic Pianists - Arbiter Records Home Page, over 60 very short biographies by Allan Evans. Argerich, Martha b. 1941. - Excerpts from a 1979 interview with Dean Elder; in-print discography; reviews. Ashkenazy, Vladimir 1937- - Some facts, a 1995 interview, discography and reviews from Classic CD magazine page. Astriab, Lou - provides information on the American pianist. Atamian, Dickran - pianist. Ax, Emanuel Batagov, Anton 1965- - Includes biography, gallery and texts by the pianist. Bauer, Harold 1873-1951. - Bauer Collection in the Music Division of the Library of Congress includes biography, etc. Baxtresser, Margaret - explores the enchanting, nature-filled world of Claude Debussy and the Impressionist Painters. Bekhterev, Boris - provides information on the Russian-born pianist. Berman, Bart - Israeli concert pianist specializing in Schubert and contemporary music performance. Berman, Boris - Pianist of international stature and teacher at Yale University School of Music. Bernstein, Leonard 1918-1990
