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.
The Syracuse University Art Galleries has changed its name to the Syracuse University Art Museum. In order to communicate to the public a clearer sense of its identity and to draw attention to its arts holdings, this name change from…
Jaclyn Doyle, a rising fifth-year School of Architecture student from Hadley, Massachusetts, has been selected as the first recipient of the Connie Caldwell Summer Internship Award. Established in honor of Caldwell, the School of Architecture’s former director of career services,…
A team of students from Syracuse University and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) has placed among the top in this year’s U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge, a collegiate competition that inspires student teams…
The Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition has released the 2020 edition of the student-run magazine, “Intertext.” The publication, completed by students working remotely due to COVID-19, features stories written by students enrolled in various WRT courses. The project…
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