Young Artist World Piano Festival 2011
- At February 17, 2011
- By joe
- In Events, News
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Brochures, Applications, and Competition Rules now available for our Young Artist World Piano Festival.
Jo Anne and I cannot say enough about this great festival that we have been a part of for so many years. This will be the 21st year of the Festival (formerly the Young Artist Piano Camp). I have been a member of the artist faculty for 15 of those years, with Jo Anne joining the faculty some 6 years later.
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Our Festival is a magical time and place. It is a time and place where everyday concerns and distractions dissolve into insignificance. We eat, breathe, and bathe in the light of our great art. It is a time and place where devoted artist-faculty “hang” with and mentor their young charges 24/7. International artists come to teach and perform this great art. It is a time and place where children and teenagers of like mind, are finally able to share their greatest musical passions and experiences. This time and place does not exist anywhere else in their daily lives. They soar. They are not diminished by the unimportant. It is an oasis in the desert. It is a time and place where once experienced, one will want to return to again and again. It is an intense and exuberant life experience. It will be a part of their souls forever. It is hard work and joyous in the deep and meaningful way that only hard work and devotion can provide. Young artists of the piano learn from one another. They understand one another. They lift each other up. This time and place is important. It is necessary. All of our students must drink from the well of this oasis. It is the pinnacle of our year’s musical journey. It is a time and place to work, to rest, to recreate, to contemplate, to recharge. It is Piano Paradise and more. The gods of Classical Music bless us and smile upon us. . .
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Jo Anne and I will shortly have gorgeous printed brochures to hand out to our students and families. In the meantime, to learn more about the festival, please visit the following link: Young Artist World Piano Festival website.
