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Festival for Creative Pianists
Festival for Creative Pianists
About
Mission and Vision
Board of Directors
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History
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Online Community
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In-Person Festival
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Past Highlights

Check out these fun festival highlights from previous years!

  • 2019 Videos

  • 2018 Houle & Rossi duo performance – mp3 (Suite by Richard Rodney Bennett – 6/18/18 program)

  • 2017 Videos

  • 2016 Videos

  • 2015 Testimonial by Leila Viss, noted piano teacher

  • 2014 Testimonial by Aura Strohschein, festival clinician

  • Dueling pianos (2011 festival)

  • Festival alum success story: Jonathan Keith – ’03, ’04, & ’08 prizewinner

  • More alumni spotlights

  • More YouTube videos

  • Archive pages (since 2001 — pictures, results, videos, etc.) 

Selections from the 2016 Thursday & Friday evening recitals (June 9 & 10, 2016):

Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 in D Minor by Felix

  • Mendelssohn – John Salmon, piano

  • Chopin Improvisations by Luke Gillespie

  • Impressions on Color by Kevin Olson

  • Spontaneous Improvisation on a Random Theme from the Audience by John Salmon

  • Fughetta on ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime’ by John Salmon, piano (Arthur Houle, 2nd piano)

  • Autumn Leaves by Joseph Kosma – Luke Gillespie and John Salmon, pianists

  • Side Saddle Sonatina by Greta Thoreson (Written Composition Finalist) – John Salmon, piano

  • What They Say in Space (Dissassociative) by Maria Ali (Written Composition Finalist) – Kevin Olson, piano

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