The 2019 Geoffrey Parsons Award
The 2019 Geoffrey Parsons Award / $6000 / Entries close Midnight CST Saturday 29th June 2019. Applications are open for this year’s awards and the application form is now available to download. Visit the GPA page for further details.
Accompanists’ Festival 2017
FESTIVAL OF ACCOMPANISTS AUGUST 2-6 2017 The theme of this year’s Festival of Accompanists is KEYBOARD ACCOMPANIMENT IN CHORAL MUSIC – including the final 2017 Concert by The Young Accompanists’ Showcase … http://accompanist.org.au/event-infoforms/accompanists-festival/
Kelvin Grout International Piano Accompanists Competition, Amsterdam September 2008
Recently described as the ‘man in the shadow’ the importance of the work of the accompanist is often overlooked, misunderstood and neglected. Finally here is a competition that recognises the skills and talents of all those wonderful pianists performing as accompanists. Are you an accompanist? Are you a singer working with an accompanist? Do you love lieder recitals? Then this is the place for you. We are pleased to announce that the first truly international competition, exclusively for piano accompanists will take place in Amsterdam from the 8th to the 13th September 2008. There are many accompanists who are very good pianists, but there are not many pianists who are good accompanists! The world renowned accompanist and teacher KELVIN GROUT will in 2007 celebrate fifty years of playing the piano. In addition to special concerts and master-classes throughout the seasons 2007/2008 and 2008/2009, he has given his name to this…
Pointers for Productive Rehearsal with Accompanists
By Ruth Bonnetti Has this ever happened to you? You’re performing a concerto. The orchestral conductor or pianist, as the case may be, has set a tempo too fast or too slow. As an experienced soloist you know to assert exactly the tempo you want, backed with eye contact and decisive body language. You expect them to follow you. And they do, right? For the complete article, please go to Here