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International Summer Course organised by the North London Piano School in collaboration with the Purcell School

1st – 8th August 2010

Piano and String departments will feature:

Christopher Elton - Head of Keyboard at the Royal Academy of Music
William Fong - Head of keyboard at the Purcell School
Andrew Haigh - Former Head of Piano at the Kent Music School
Ruth Harte - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music
Fazliddin Husanov – Tutor at the Welsh College of Music and Drama
Leonid Kontorovsky - Head of Keyboard at the State Music School, Reutlingen, Germany
Olga Malisova - Head of Junior Department at the North London Piano School
Tessa Nicholson - Professor of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music & Purcell School
Richard Ormrod - Professor of Piano at Trinity College of Music
Natasa Sarcevic – Tutor at the London College of Music and Media
Michael Schreider - Artistic Director of the North London Piano School
Nathaniel Vallois - Professor of Violin at the Birmingham Conservatoire & Purcell School

We will be delighted to welcome our honoured guests, who will be sharing their expertise on the refinements of piano and violin performance:

Irina Osipova - Professor of Piano at the Moscow Conservatoire, President of Russian Association of Piano Pedagogues
Albert Tarakanov - Professor of Piano at Saratov Conservatoire
Marina Kesselman - Professor of Violin at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire 


 
This year there will be masterclasses and lectures on Baroque, Classical and Modern Piano Styles, Problems of Tension and Relaxation in Performance, Technical Development, Systems of Practising.
 
One of the most important Masterclasses will be devoted to the Romantic Repertoire.

A dedicated team will be recording the best performances during the week and the players again will have a chance to prepare their own CD.