Conservatoires/Schools

[Dazzer]

Q: which conservatoire, or school of music, would you like to study at if you were going to go into a music career as a pianist? Maybe even who would you like to study with? I'm trying to learn more about this subject. It can be anywhere in the world.

[anda]

if i were 16 years old, and wanted a career as soloist:

reina sofia (madrid) - teachers: egyazarova or bashkirov
or berlin conservatory - georg sava
or maybe paris conservatory (but i don't know the teachers there)

[robo1001]

I'm auditioning in 2 weeks to go to the Purcell School of Music, I would ABSOLUTELY love it if I got in!

Conservatoire-wise, I'd like to go to The Royal Academy in London with either Martin Roscoe or Joanna MacGregor teaching!

[BoliverAllmon]

I would just like a teacher that allows me to be a musician and not a carbon-copy of previous performers.

boliver

[Waldszenen]

I always thought I'd love to study at Julliard, but from what I hear it has a pretty horrible reputation nowadays.

Otherwise I'd be interested in the Paris Conservatoire or the Moscow State Conservatory.

[Aniam]

I'd like the Liszt Academy or the teacher's college that's a branch of it.

Course, if you got into Juilliard you'd get to live in New York...

[BoliverAllmon]

I'd like the Liszt Academy or the teacher's college that's a branch of it.

Course, if you got into Juilliard you'd get to live in New York...

yeah live in NY pay crazy taxes, go to a screwed up school. yeah sounds fun.

[pianomann1984]

I'm at my 2nd year at Trinity College of Music London and it rocks!  Is Gyorgy Sandor still teaching at Julliard?  Come to Trinity and study with Philip Fowke - he's a dude!  When I'm finished at Trinity, I'd love to study with Bashkirov, but that's a pretty ridiculously pressured environment.  Failing that I think I'd like to either do Julliard (with Ax or Sandor if they're still there) or study with more English pianists like Howard Shelley or Peter Donohoe.  I think I'll ask my teacher - he knows best after all!

[BoliverAllmon]

I'm at my 2nd year at Trinity College of Music London and it rocks!  Is Gyorgy Sandor still teaching at Julliard?  Come to Trinity and study with Philip Fowke - he's a dude!  When I'm finished at Trinity, I'd love to study with Bashkirov, but that's a pretty ridiculously pressured environment.  Failing that I think I'd like to either do Julliard (with Ax or Sandor if they're still there) or study with more English pianists like Howard Shelley or Peter Donohoe.  I think I'll ask my teacher - he knows best after all!

my teacher went to Trinity College. He said that is was a great school.

[pianomann1984]

my teacher went to Trinity College. He said that is was a great school.

Really?  Who is your teacher?  It is a fantastic school...I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a more encouraging environment in which to learn.  I love it to bits.

[Aniam]

Is Gyorgy Sandor still teaching at Julliard?

I think I checked the piano faculty list on the Juilliard site once recently, and he was on it. It'd be pretty neat to study with someone who was a pupil of Bartok and Kodaly (if I'm remembering correctly).

[pianomann1984]

I think I checked the piano faculty list on the Juilliard site once recently, and he was on it. It'd be pretty neat to study with someone who was a pupil of Bartok and Kodaly (if I'm remembering correctly).

Too right!  He's awesome!  Problem is he's 92, i think, and , although this sounds horrible, by the time I leave Trinity, he'll probably be either retired or dead!  I reserve hope though..hold on Sandor...I'mma Comin'! 

[BoliverAllmon]

Really?  Who is your teacher?  It is a fantastic school...I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a more encouraging environment in which to learn.  I love it to bits.

I just found out that I was mistaken. He went to the Academy not Trinity. His name is Ernest Boamah.

[pianomann1984]

Who did he study with there?  Surely not Gordon Green?!  If so, your teacher and mine may have something in common!

[BoliverAllmon]

Who did he study with there?  Surely not Gordon Green?!  If so, your teacher and mine may have something in common!

I would have to ask him and find out. I can let you as soon as I see him again.

[tds]

i got what i wanted i guess. i studied with jon kimura parker at rice university. had hours of lesson with byron janis, amongst others. best, tds

[Waldszenen]

You learnt with BYRON JANIS!?

[tds]

You learnt with BYRON JANIS!?

a very nice person, he is. i like his exotic looking cat, too. tds

[BoliverAllmon]

Who did he study with there?  Surely not Gordon Green?!  If so, your teacher and mine may have something in common!

he studied with someone named hanes or hynes. or something like that.

[pianomann1984]

ok...maybe I'll ask my teacher (Philip Fowke) about him'her.  I'm always fascinated to find out just what teachers of the past were like.

[steinwayguy]

The Curtis Institute of Music (although Philadelphia as a city sucks ass)- Anybody there would just be amazing, except Solzhenitsyn. Preferably Gary Graffman or Seymour Lipkin.

The Juilliard School- Robert McDonald or Yoheved Kaplinsky

The Mannes School of Music- Richard Goode, but he's ghost-faculty, so much for that...

[etudes]

The Curtis Institute of Music (although Philadelphia as a city sucks ass)- Anybody there would just be amazing, except Solzhenitsyn. Preferably Gary Graffman or Seymour Lipkin.

The Juilliard School- Robert McDonald or Yoheved Kaplinsky

The Mannes School of Music- Richard Goode, but he's ghost-faculty, so much for that...

and Nina at Manhattan school of music ?? also Peter Vinograde

[Waldszenen]

The Curtis Institute of Music (although Philadelphia as a city sucks ass)- Anybody there would just be amazing, except Solzhenitsyn. Preferably Gary Graffman or Seymour Lipkin.

The Juilliard School- Robert McDonald or Yoheved Kaplinsky

The Mannes School of Music- Richard Goode, but he's ghost-faculty, so much for that...

Ain't Gary Grafmann the bloke that Lang Lang studied with?

[pianowelsh]

The International Pianofoundation on Lago di Como would be my choice. I dont think you can do better that and Italian palazzo with fine instruments to practice on and  a faculty list that includes Martha Argerich, D Bashkirov, Merlet etc etc. and when they come they come for a week at a time to give lessons and masterclasses. Any one whose been to N Italian lakes will know that as far as environment goes  - it doesnt get better. There are only about 8 students though - so competition is pretty fierce in fact they select form the worlds top academies and wittle down from 400 to 8. Ouch  - ;)well its 'dream'

[pianowelsh]

Are any of you there?! If so speak to the director for me!!!