Master Classes with Marcella Crudeli

The guest of the Golden Key Music Festival – professor Marcella Crudeli (Italy) will offer the Master Classes for advanced students in the beginning of May 2008.

Significant contributions to her artistic formation were made by celebrated Maestros A.Cortot, C. Zecchi and B.Seidlhofer. She has performed over two thousand solo concerts in eighty countries and received highest honors from private, public and governmental institutions around the world. She is considered one of the most distinguished concert performers of modern days. Professor Crudeli is founder of “Rome” International Piano Competition, founder and president European Piano Teachers Association-Italy ,and International Music Association “F.Chopin”.To learn more about Marcella Crudeli, please, visit web site www.chopinroma.it/marcellacrudeli.htm

Marcella Crudeli Master Class 2008 at Steinway

Dear Fellow Piano Teaching Colleagues:
 
I am delighted to have been asked by the Golden Key Festival to offer an opportunity for qualified students to meet and play for the highly esteemed and imaginative pianist, Madame Marcella Crudeli.  We therefore make invitation to your advanced piano students to apply for audition in a masterclass format with Ms. Crudeli taking place at Steinway Hall (Henry Z. Steinway Room) 109 West 57th Street, New York, NY on Sunday, May 4th from 11:00 am-3:00 pm.  Considered one of the most distinguished Italian pianists of her generation, Ms. Crudeli will be performing also at Steinway on Saturday, May 3rd at 6:30 pm.  It is our honor that she has graciously offered to make herself available to hear a select group of three to four piano students at an advanced level. Because of the limited number of master class slots available, we are advertising this event only to a limited population of potential piano studios such as yours. 

Since participation is aimed in the context of a masterclass environment, acceptance is based on factors such as repertory, level, technical achievement  and expressive range.  Repertory presented should include 2-3 major works from Baroque, Classical, Romantic and/or Contemporary, with a total timed range minimum of 10 minutes of music from memory. 

Audition tapes must be submitted in DVD/VCR video formats (other formats will not be accepted).  3-4 winners will be selected by judges along with runner-up candidates for the 2008 Marcella Crudeli Masterclass. 

We offer a special Certificate of Attendance to all students participating and a Certificate of Excellence signed by Ms. Crudeli and the judging auditor(s)  for those students chosen to perform for Ms. Crudeli.  Decisions by judges are considered final. 

A $50 non-refundable fee is required for applicants and needs to be POSTMARKED by April 1st, 2008 with checks made payable to "American Concert Alliance".  Please address to: American Concert Alliance c/o Thomas Osuga, 160 Claremont Avenue, #2B, New York, NY 10027-4638.  We look forward to having your students participate in this unusual opportunity to meet with a legendary  and most humane artist. 

With all due respect,

Thomas Osuga