NEW! Young Artist Program for Piano

This class is open to senior piano students, and provides instruction in a setting that moves towards traditional music college/university instruction while maintaining roots in Suzuki philosophy and pedagogy. It is expected that these senior players, who provide a role model to other participating students, will join happily in other Institute events.

Students eligible:

• Pianists who have completed Mozart, Sonata, K.330 (Suzuki Bk. 6) or who have completed RCM or Conservatory Canada Gr. 9 piano

Program includes:

• Daily public Master Class (half-hour per student) with piano accompanist (if required).
• Daily Ensemble class (duo piano or string/piano duo) with pianist Anya Alexeyev (ON).
• Daily Advanced Percussion class.
• Solo performance opportunity at the end of the week.

Please note that mature students may better handle the audition process and the public master class instruction in the Young Artist Program. While there are no age limits, high school age students may adapt to this somewhat more intense experience more easily than younger children. The regular Senior Piano program is another very rewarding option available for advanced students who are not sure about the YAP, or who do not get through the audio recording audition process (there is strictly limited enrollment in the YAP).

How to apply:

• Submit the Young Artist Program student application form, postmarked by April 1, 2008.
• Prepare an unedited cassette tape or CD (at least 10 minutes long) including the complete work you wish to study in the Young Artist Program, as well as one other polished piece. After your application is received, we’ll send you instructions on how to set up and submit your recorded audition.* The tape or CD must be postmarked by May 1, 2008.

* This is a “blind” audition. All tapes are numbered and submitted to the master class teacher for review without the student names.

NOTE: Audition recordings will not be processed until we have received the registration fee.

Cost: $450 CDN ($440 US)

About Anya Alexeyev

Pianist Anya Alexeyev received her education at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with Dmitri Bashkirov. She then went on to complete a Performer’s Diploma at the Royal College of Music in London, England in 1993 and earned her an Associate Certificate from the same institution a year later. A winner of many awards, Alexeyev has spent the past 12 years performing internationally, playing solo recitals, concertos, chamber music, and contemporary music. She has performed with some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber, The Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National, Deutschland Radio, City of Birmingham Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony and Sinfonietta, St. Pertersburg Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, BBC National Orchetra of Wales, English Chamber, Malaysian Philharmonic, Belgian National Symphony, and Quebec Symphony, collaborating with such conductors as Temirkanov, Simonov, Oramo, Bakels, Judd.

In 1995, Alexeyev premiered Sir Paul McCartney’s first solo piano piece, A Leaf, which was later released on CD for EMI Classics.

She regularly performs live for BBC radio and has also been broadcast by GMTV (UK), PBS (USA), CBC (Canada), Deutschland Radio, and a number of other radio stations in Britain, Finland, Malaysia, and Russia.

She was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Laurier in 2002, and Assistant Professor in 2005.

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