Fred Karpoff, professor of piano in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Setnor School of Music, was a featured presenter at the Texas Music Teachers Association Convention in Arlington; the Music Teachers Association of California in Oakland; and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Lombard, Ill.
Karpoff addressed more than 800 teachers in nine events that included the presentations “Establishing Fluid Piano Technique from the Beginning, “Practicing Performing,” and “Maximizing Student Learning and Achievement with the 3-D Piano Method.” In May he launched the online, monthly newsletter Soundpoint that has more than 2,400 active readers. (Individual articles are archived at 3-dpiano.com.) Karpoff’s 3-D Piano Method, released in 2009, is currently being used by hundreds of pianists and teachers in 20 countries and by students and faculty in more than 50 colleges and universities.
Syracuse Stage Artistic Director Robert Hupp has announced an expansion of the senior artistic staff. As of Sept. 1, veteran New York based director Melissa Crespo will become the theater’s associate artistic director. Kyle Bass, who currently holds that position,…
Culminating a seven-year partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and organizations across the country, La Casita Cultural Center announces the July 9 virtual opening event for the new exhibition “Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big…
Sascha Scott, associate professor and director of art history graduate studies, is a recipient of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s prestigious Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award for her article “Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawai’i? Decolonizing the History of American Modernism,” which appeared in…
Urban Video Project (UVP) is pleased to announce “UVP Summer Review 2021: Inflection Points,” featuring pieces from the 2020-21 programming year, which takes its title from a mathematical term that describes the point in a curve at which a change…
Syracuse Stage has announced plans to resume live and in-person performance in the 2021/2022 season. Starting in October, the theater will present a six-show subscription season and offer a full schedule of educational, family and community-related programming, including the continuation of…
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