Piano Workshop and Lecture
Madeline Bruser
WHO:
Department of Music at Cal State Fullerton
WHAT:
Piano workshop and lecture by Madeline Bruser
WHEN:
10 a.m. lecture, 2:30 p.m. workshop, Saturday, Sept. 13
WHERE:
Recital Hall, California State University, Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton
BACKGROUND:
Pianist Madeline Bruser has performed as a soloist with the San Francisco and Denver Symphony Orchestras, as well as conducted seminars and workshops at the Julliard School, Manhattan School of Music, University of Southern California, Music Academy of the West, MedArt World Congress on Arts and Medicine and college music departments and music teachers’ organizations throughout the United States and Canada.
She also appeared on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” in an interview and piano lesson broadcast in 200 cities. Bruser is the author of the highly acclaimed book, “The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart,” which combines musical, meditative and physiological principles. Her book was published in Korean in 2000 and in Chinese in 2005.
She has retrained pianists with practice-related injuries since 1985, and from 2001 to 2003, she served on the Committee for Pianists’ Wellness for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. Her research on the physiological mechanics of piano playing has included interviews with leading arts medicine professionals specializing in psychiatrics, physical therapy and hand therapy as well as with teachers of the Alexander Technique, Body-Mind Centering and Laban Movement Analysis.
Bruser won first prize in the Denver Symphony North American Young Artists Competition and was a prizewinner in the First National Chopin Competition. She also received the Alfred Hertz
Award for Music from the University of California for two consecutive years. Bruser has appeared in recital at Carnegie Recital Hall and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and has performed on radio in the U.S. and Europe.
She studied with Alexander Libermann, Menahem Pressler Irwin Freudlich, John Crown, Jeanne Stark-Iochmans and Paul Hersh. Bruser graduated from the Julliard School in 1970 and received a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1978. She now teaches piano privately in New York City, where she has served on the adjunct piano faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University.
ADMISSION:
Advance sales $10 ($5 with advance Titan discount)
At the door all tickets $10
BOX OFFICE:
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657-278-3371, from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Mondays-Fridays and one hour prior to performance. Tickets also may be ordered online at: www.tickets.com
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