Students of Schubert Club Composer-in-Residence Edie Hill:
Melissa Mogan, Sara Feinberg & Simon Alexander-Adams

Melissa Mogan - Al Niente
Sara Feinberg - Harp Song
Simon Alexander-Adams - New Work for Solo Piano


Elizabeth Karelse, piano

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Partita No. 5 BWV 829 in G Major
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Sonata Op. 10, No. 3 in D Major
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György Ligeti (1923 - 2006)
From 'Études pour piano' premier livre
Étude No. 5 'Arc-en-ciel'

Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
'Revolutionary etude' Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor

ARTIST BIOS:

Elizabeth Karelse (1984) was finalist of the Dutch Petrof Piano Competition at the age of nine. In 1996, she was admitted to the Conservatory of Rotterdam, where she studied with Mila Baslawskaja and she entered the ‘Young Talent Class’ of the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands in The Hague in 1998. Here, shestudied with Marcel Baudet and Marlies van Gent.
            Elizabeth performed for the Dutch Queen Beatrix and the Japanese Emperor and Empress during their state visit to the Netherlands in May 2000. She became prizewinner of the Dutch Interprovincial Music Competition and was awarded first prize in the National Music Competition for Young People of the Netherlands in December 2000. As a result of this, she was able to give several performances in, amongst others, the concert halls of Amsterdam (Concertgebouw) -broadcasted live by national radio- and Rotterdam (De Doelen).
            Elizabeth participated in the festival of the International Keyboard Institute at Mannes College of Music in New York in the summers of 2001 and 2002, where she studied with Pedro Carbone, Pavlina Dokovska, Vladislav Kovalsky, Mordecai Shehori, Alexander Volkov, Vladimir Shakin, Irina Morozova, Mykola Suk and Jerome Rose. She has also participated in masterclasses with Vladimir Tropp, Vadim Monastyrski and Jeffrey Siegel.
            She won both regional and national finals of the Dutch Princes Christina Competition in 2002, which gave her the opportunity to perform in Carnegie Hall, New York. Another direct result was going on tour with the Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, performing Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto.   
            Elizabeth participated in the summer course of the VIP-academy (Vienna International Pianists) in the summer of 2003, after which she gave several concerts in Helsinki, Finland. In the summer of 2004, she returned to Vienna to study at the Universität fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst with prof.Alexander Braginsky.
            Elizabeth obtained her teaching degree (cum laude) in December 2004 and graduated with a BA in piano performance in May 2005 from the Royal Conservatory of The Netherlands in The Hague under the guidance of Ellen Corver. She moved to America in the summer of 2005 to study with Alexander Braginsky at Hamline University’s International Piano Institute in Saint Paul, Minnesota. At Hamline University, she also completed a masters degree in Liberal Studies and she taught 2 credit piano performance courses in the undergraduate department. Elizabeth graduated in May 2007 and is currently pursuing a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree in piano performance at the University of Minnesota. She also works for the U of M as a full-time teaching assistant.
            Elizabeth participated in the Schubert Club Scholarship competition in April 2006. She obtained second prize, winning $1500. In March 2007, she won the first prize at the Thursday Musical competition.