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Gold Country Piano Institute[ ABOUT US, GCPI HISTORY ] Read Students Reminiscences of their program experiences with the Master Course; review biographies of past Guest Performers; view programs from Past Performances and learn about our area - The Gold Country.
ABOUT USMission: The mission of Gold Country Piano Institute is to instill serious young American piano students with the realization that they can achieve excellence at a young age by giving them opportunities to study with master piano instructors and to interact with young virtuosi from around the world in an innovative and intensive piano master course. Method: At the beginning of the Institute, each professor chooses two or three pieces of a participant’s prepared repertoire for coaching. The participant receives a lesson every working day of the Institute (nine lessons), studying equally with our three instructors, concert pianists of various schools. Emphasis is on interpretation and the preparation of a participant’s repertoire for performance. History of the Gold Country Piano InstituteIn 1990, Dr. Pawel Skrzypek, pianist and master teacher of piano in the brilliant "Russian-style" of performance, was invited to perform in Nevada City by Twin Cities Concert Association. The beauty of the wooded hills, the town's resemblance to a Silesian village in Poland, and its personality and culture touched him deeply, and he vowed to return. After many return engagements, he founded the Gold Country Piano Institute in 1999 with the help of his friends, Allan Haley, attorney and one of the founders of the Nevada City Winery, Andrea Fox, pianist and teacher, and Kirby Sechovec, restaurateur. Dr. Skrzypek's vision is the musical and cultural cross-pollination among American and Polish piano students and students from other parts of the world where he performs and teaches. The Institute was founded in November 1999 when a 5-day pilot program was launched with eight students. The first full-scale Gold Country Piano Institute was held at the Miner's Foundry in May, 2000. In May, 2001, Professor Lee Kum-Sing, head of the Piano Department at the Vancouver Academy of Music and Professor of Piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, joined the faculty for the second Master Course with thirteen pianists from the United States, Poland, Japan, and Taiwan. In 2003, Professor Emilio del Rosario of the Music Institute of Chicago joined the faculty for the June 2004 Master Course. In addition to international students and participants from major cultural centers of the United States, local students from Nevada and Placer Counties have participated in every Master Course. The Institute supports a scholarship exchange program. The best and/or the most promising young American (U. S. citizen) participant in the Gold Country Piano Institute goes to Poland for an intensive course of study at the Warsaw Piano Workshop, and the best and/or most promising student from Poland comes to Nevada City for the next year's Piano Institute. In 2000, the Fermata Institute of Gdansk, Poland, sister course of the Warsaw Piano Workshop, began the Scholarship Exchange Program by awarding the GCPI Scholarship to Polish pianist Jacek Mysinski. That same year, Rie Ando Huguenin of Whidby Island, Washington attended the Fermata Institute. Beginning in 2002, the Scholarship Exchange Program was taken over by the Warsaw Piano Institute, and all GCPI recipients since then have attended the WPW Master Course in Warsaw. A list of all scholarship recipients follows:
In 2001, Dr. Skrzypek introduced a new project for the Gold Country Piano Institute. The Stars of the Future was established in cooperation with American conductor, Central Washington University Professor Paul Elliot Cobbs. Each year a specially selected participant of the Master Course will appear as soloist with either the Tacoma Youth Symphony or the Everett Symphony Orchestra. Pauline Yang performed in the 2001/02 Tacoma Youth Symphony season (Beethoven – Piano Concerto #2); Rachel Naomi Kudo appeared in 2002/03 Everett Symphony Orchestra series (Tschaikovsky – Piano Concerto in b-flat minor). The Stars of the Future series is only part of the Institute's promotional program, which, initiated in 2000 by the Patricia Alberti Performing Artists' Management, also awards one year of recital opportunities to the chosen Gold Country Piano Institute participant from the United States. Contact Gold Country Piano InstituteAddress: P.O. Box 1321, Nevada City, CA 95959-1321
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