Jean-David Coen
Pianist Jean-David Coen, holds degrees from the Paris Conservatory, Julliard, and Yale; finishing with his Doctorate from the University of Southern California. He has studied with significant masters representing each of the 3 essential pianistic traditions: German,Russian, and French. These great artists included Adele Marcus, Jeanne-Marie Darre, Sacha Gorodnitzki, Claude Frank and John Perry. His most significant mentors in chamber music and collaborative artistry were Szymon Goldberg,and Joseph Silverstein.
Jean-David began concertizing with orchestra when he was 9, and by 17 had performed both Tchaikovsky and Brahms first piano concerti. He has played around the world, with orchestras like the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Tanglewood, the Oregon Bach Festival, and the Aspen School of Music, where he was assistant to John Perry and member of the Piano and Chamber Music faculty for 24 years. His 2008 performance of the Diabelli variations concluded the festival's presentation of the entire cycle of Beethoven's piano works. His collaborations have included performances with conductors such as David Zinman, and Helmuth Rilling; violinists Peter Zazofsky and Robert Mcduffie, singers Vinson Cole and William Sharp and frequent work with cellist Yehudah Hanani. He has toured and given master classes in both China and Japan as part of Trio Oregon. Both solo and ensemble performances have been heard on NPR's "Performance Today",KUSC, and WQXR in New York . He has been a Visiting Professor of Piano at the Sheppard School Of Music at USC, is currently Professor of Piano and Music History at Willamette University in Oregon. In addition to having coached winners of the Gilmore prize and Leeds competition, his students have: performed in Carnegie Hall, won international piano competitions, performed on NPR's "From the Top", and holds faculty positions in the US, Europe, and Asia.
He has recently served on the faculty of the Colburn Summer Academy, and the Duxbury Summer Festival of Music. This summer he will perform at the Chintimini Festival in Oregon, and joins the faculty of the the Peng Piano Academy in Palo Alto, California and continues with his 3rd year of participation at the Beverly Hills International Festival of music.
Pianist Jean-David Coen, holds degrees from the Paris Conservatory, Julliard, and Yale; finishing with his Doctorate from the University of Southern California. He has studied with significant masters representing each of the 3 essential pianistic traditions: German,Russian, and French. These great artists included Adele Marcus, Jeanne-Marie Darre, Sacha Gorodnitzki, Claude Frank and John Perry. His most significant mentors in chamber music and collaborative artistry were Szymon Goldberg,and Joseph Silverstein.
Jean-David began concertizing with orchestra when he was 9, and by 17 had performed both Tchaikovsky and Brahms first piano concerti. He has played around the world, with orchestras like the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Tanglewood, the Oregon Bach Festival, and the Aspen School of Music, where he was assistant to John Perry and member of the Piano and Chamber Music faculty for 24 years. His 2008 performance of the Diabelli variations concluded the festival's presentation of the entire cycle of Beethoven's piano works. His collaborations have included performances with conductors such as David Zinman, and Helmuth Rilling; violinists Peter Zazofsky and Robert Mcduffie, singers Vinson Cole and William Sharp and frequent work with cellist Yehudah Hanani. He has toured and given master classes in both China and Japan as part of Trio Oregon. Both solo and ensemble performances have been heard on NPR's "Performance Today",KUSC, and WQXR in New York . He has been a Visiting Professor of Piano at the Sheppard School Of Music at USC, is currently Professor of Piano and Music History at Willamette University in Oregon. In addition to having coached winners of the Gilmore prize and Leeds competition, his students have: performed in Carnegie Hall, won international piano competitions, performed on NPR's "From the Top", and holds faculty positions in the US, Europe, and Asia.
He has recently served on the faculty of the Colburn Summer Academy, and the Duxbury Summer Festival of Music. This summer he will perform at the Chintimini Festival in Oregon, and joins the faculty of the the Peng Piano Academy in Palo Alto, California and continues with his 3rd year of participation at the Beverly Hills International Festival of music.
Donald E. Dillard
Composer, Donald Dillard was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received his early music training at the Settlement Music School with concert pianist, Charles Engel. He was awarded a full scholarship to West Chester University, West Chester, PA, where he was a piano and voice major. His graduate studies were done at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ.
Mr. Dillard is an active composer of over 100 works for orchestra, chorus, instruments, piano, organ and voice, including three fully scored cantatas and two oratorios for soloists, chorus and orchestra, as well as concertos for violin and orchestra, cello and orchestra, and organ and orchestra, three song cycles for solo voice and orchestra, two symphonic poems, and other orchestral works.
His music has been performed throughout the United States, South America, Japan, and in Europe and performed by the West Chester University Concert Choir, the Morgan State University Concert Choir, the Gettysburg Choir and Harrisburg Singers, and the Mendelssohn Club Choir of Philadelphia. His piano solo works have been performed internationally by the late concert pianist Richard Fields. Orchestral works have been performed by the Detroit Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Delaware County Symphony and the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia.
Composer, Donald Dillard was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received his early music training at the Settlement Music School with concert pianist, Charles Engel. He was awarded a full scholarship to West Chester University, West Chester, PA, where he was a piano and voice major. His graduate studies were done at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ.
Mr. Dillard is an active composer of over 100 works for orchestra, chorus, instruments, piano, organ and voice, including three fully scored cantatas and two oratorios for soloists, chorus and orchestra, as well as concertos for violin and orchestra, cello and orchestra, and organ and orchestra, three song cycles for solo voice and orchestra, two symphonic poems, and other orchestral works.
His music has been performed throughout the United States, South America, Japan, and in Europe and performed by the West Chester University Concert Choir, the Morgan State University Concert Choir, the Gettysburg Choir and Harrisburg Singers, and the Mendelssohn Club Choir of Philadelphia. His piano solo works have been performed internationally by the late concert pianist Richard Fields. Orchestral works have been performed by the Detroit Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Delaware County Symphony and the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia.
Amy Lin
Amy Lin was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States with her family as a youngster. She began studying the piano at the age of five, dividing her time between two passions: music and mathematics. She worked with the renowned pianist Leon Fleisher intensively for ten years at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, earning a Master’s degree and Artist Diploma after receiving her Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University. As a direct descendant from the « Beethoven school » ( through Czerny, Leschetizky, Schnabel and Fleisher), Amy Lin takes special interests in the music of Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert. In order to further her understanding of the great German traditions, she spent two years in Germany where she worked with pianist Gerhard Oppitz at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and was awarded the Meisterklassendiplom.
Ms. Lin made her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington CD as winner of the Young Soloists’ Compétition in 1981 and has since appeared in recital and as soloist with orchestra in the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Latvia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, New Caledonia and Brazil. Amy Lin has recorded CDs of piano music compositions of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy , and of Asian composers Chou Wen-Chung, Qigang Chen, Xiaoyong Chen, Keeyong Chong, Chen Yi, Zhou Long and Tan Dun.
Amy Lin is a professor and head of the keyboard department at the Conservatoire and Académie Supérieure de Musique de Strasbourg in France, and teaches at the European Music Masterclasses in France during the summer. She is frequently invited to give masterclasses in leading music schools, such as Yale University, Northwestern University, Peabody Institute, Seoul National University, Taipei National Arts University, Musikhichschule of Weimar, Royal Conservatory of Brussels and Jerusalem Music Academy. Ms. Lin enjoys sharing her passion for music with students who come from around the world; many of them have gone on to lead active and successful musical lives.
Amy Lin was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States with her family as a youngster. She began studying the piano at the age of five, dividing her time between two passions: music and mathematics. She worked with the renowned pianist Leon Fleisher intensively for ten years at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, earning a Master’s degree and Artist Diploma after receiving her Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University. As a direct descendant from the « Beethoven school » ( through Czerny, Leschetizky, Schnabel and Fleisher), Amy Lin takes special interests in the music of Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert. In order to further her understanding of the great German traditions, she spent two years in Germany where she worked with pianist Gerhard Oppitz at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and was awarded the Meisterklassendiplom.
Ms. Lin made her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington CD as winner of the Young Soloists’ Compétition in 1981 and has since appeared in recital and as soloist with orchestra in the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Latvia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, New Caledonia and Brazil. Amy Lin has recorded CDs of piano music compositions of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy , and of Asian composers Chou Wen-Chung, Qigang Chen, Xiaoyong Chen, Keeyong Chong, Chen Yi, Zhou Long and Tan Dun.
Amy Lin is a professor and head of the keyboard department at the Conservatoire and Académie Supérieure de Musique de Strasbourg in France, and teaches at the European Music Masterclasses in France during the summer. She is frequently invited to give masterclasses in leading music schools, such as Yale University, Northwestern University, Peabody Institute, Seoul National University, Taipei National Arts University, Musikhichschule of Weimar, Royal Conservatory of Brussels and Jerusalem Music Academy. Ms. Lin enjoys sharing her passion for music with students who come from around the world; many of them have gone on to lead active and successful musical lives.
Karen Lin Peng
Karen Lin Peng studied piano with Jung-Ja Kim and chamber music with cellist, Ronald Thomas, at the Boston conservatory. She earned her Master degree in piano performance from the Mannes College of Music in New York under the tutelage of Arkady Aronov. Later on, she became a pupil of celebrated pianist, Anthony di Bonaventura. Peng attended music festivals in Seon, Switzerland and the Alfred Cortot International Days in France, where she worked with renowned piano pedagogue, Peter Feuchtwanger.
Her solo performances have been in the New England area and overseas, including The Music School in Rhode Island, The Boston Conservatory, Harvard University, The Harvard Musical Association, Martigny in Switzerland, and Tulesalen in Stockholm, Sweden. She also performed regularly as a chamber musician at the annual concert series in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Peng was on the piano faculty of The Boston Conservatory of Music, Extension Division, The Music School and Roger Williams College in Rhode Island. Peng is a member of Music Teachers' Association of California. She has helped serve as the adjudicator for the AFAF Carnegie Hall audition. She has given master classes and lectures to the students at the music-gifted classes of college preparatory school of Taiwan Normal University, Tamkang High School, the Institute of Music in Chiao-Tung University and the music department of Tainan University. She is the founder and artistic director of the Peng Piano Academy,