2023-25 Piano Festival Workshop – It’s a Virtual Event!
2023-25 Piano Festival Workshop
Our 2023-25 Piano Festival Workshop covers the NCMTA Piano Performance Festival Repertoire for the next two festivals seasons. The workshop is a paid service of the North Carolina Music Teachers Association, and will remain available on our NCMTA Vimeo channel, from October 2023 through June of 2025.
Clinicians: Drs. Vicky Fischer Faw, Douglas Jurs, and Frank Pittman
Douglas Jurs presents the 2023-35 Junior A&B repertoire
Dr. Douglas Jurs is in his second year as Associate Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy at Elon University and was recently elected Vice-President of the Greensboro Music Teachers Association. With colleague Eden Brown, he recently published the complete keyboard works of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges with Music by Black Composers
Victoria Fischer Faw presents the 2023-35 Senior A repertoire
VICTORIA FISCHER FAW, NCTM, D.M.A., Professor Emerita at Elon University, is a pianist, teacher, and scholar whose musical passions include the full range of piano solo and collaborative repertoire, teaching young teachers to teach piano, and mentoring undergraduate musical research.
Recent honors include being named 2021 North Carolina Music Teachers Association Teacher of the Year, MTNA 2022 National Teacher of the Year, and MTNA Foundation Fellow for 2022. Her scholarship and performance activity includes a specialty in the music of Béla Bartók. She won first prize at the 1990 Bartók-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition and has published and presented many articles and programs to local, state and national music teachers on Bartók and other musical topics. Dr. Fischer studied at Centenary College of Louisiana, UNC-Chapel Hill, UT Austin, and the Vienna Conservatory. Her teachers include Constance Knox Carroll, Danielle Martin, David Renner, Amanda Vick Lethco, Martha Hilley and Elliott Antokoletz. She is active in NCMTA and MTNA, and lives on a Christmas tree farm in Sparta, NC with her husband, Steve.
Frank Pittman presents the 2023-25 Senior B repertoire
Bio coming soon.