Sofya Gulyak Masterclass: Flagstaff Piano Festival

Join us for a master class in piano with master pianist, Sofya Golyak.

What is a masterclass?

In a piano masterclass a renowned expert performer and a student join each other in front of an audience. The student performs a selected solo piece from memory, and the professional performer listens. Then the master musician gives feedback and advice to the student while the audience observes and learns vicariously. The expert musician may have the student repeat various sections of the music as they work on tone , color, mood, movement or other high level performance skills until that section has gotten even better than it was before. If you play piano, or played in the past, observing a masterclass can be a low key way to revisit that experience and might even encourage you to sit down at the piano again! For current students, involvement in masterclasses is seen as one of the most effective experiences for leveling up into more serious musicianship!

Who is Sofya Gulyak?

In September 2009 Sofya Gulyak was awarded the 1st prize and the Princess Mary Gold Medal at the Sixteenth Leeds International Piano Competition – the first woman in the history of the competition to achieve this distinction. Since then she has appeared all over the world to great acclaim, including performances with London Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony, Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic, Rio de Janeiro Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’ Arena di Verona, Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna, NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, Enescu Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Slovak Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Copenhagen Symphony and many more!

Read more about Sofya - https://www.sofyagulyak.com/about-me

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