Steven Spooner Masterclass: Flagstaff Piano Festival

Join us for a master class in piano with master pianist, Steven Spooner.

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 Steven Spooner?

Spooner is a prizewinner at seven international piano competitions, top prizewinner at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. He also earned First Prize and was recipient of the Niekamp Career Grant as most outstanding pianist in French music at the Paris Conservatory. In 2008, he was awarded the Ivory Classics Foundation Prize that enabled him to study Liszt with the legendary virtuoso, Earl Wild.

Steven Spooner is Professor of Piano on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory, and he has studied at the Tbilisi Conservatory, Moscow Conservatory, and Indiana University.

Spooner has been engaged at many of the world’s most prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, The Great Hall of the Liszt Academy (Budapest), Salle Cortot (Paris), and Shanghai Concert Hall, among many others as soloist with orchestra and recitalist.

Read More about Spooner - https://peabody.jhu.edu/faculty/steven-spooner/

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