Piano master classes:
- 2007-2008
- Frederic Chiu
- Milica Jelaca Jovanovic
- Philip Thomson
- 2006-2007
- Ian Hominick
- 2005-2006
- Nino Cocchiarella
- Gila Goldstein
- 2004-2005
- Alessandra Ammara
- Jon Nakamatsu
- Kevin Ayesh
- 2003-2004
- Marc-André Hamelin
- Andreas Klein
- William Westney
- 2002-2003
- Kenneth Drake
- Norman Krieger
- Allen Reiser
- André Watts
- 2001-2002
- Corey Hamm
- Karen Shaw
- Mayron Tsong
- 2000-2001
- Kenneth Drake
- Wendy Chen
- Alan Hersh
- Abbey Simon
- Jon Nakamatsu
- 1999-2000
- Andrew Russo
- Duo Turgeon
- 1998-99
- Peter Gach
- Alan Hersh
- 1997-98
- Roger Wright
- Abbey Simon
- 1996-97
- Ralph Votapek
- Mecedes Veglia
- 1995-96
- Michael Ard
- Arthur Greene
Evansville is home to several active musical organizations, many of which sponsor competitions.
These include the Indiana Music Teachers Association, the National
Federation of Music Clubs, the Key Society, the National Guild of Piano
Teachers and the American Guild of Organists.
UE students also have the opportunity to hear world-class concerto
soloists with the Evansville
Philharmonic Orchestra. Soloists from recent seasons include Tzimon
Barto, Fabio Bidini, Wendy Chen, Janina Fialkowska, Jeffrey Kahane, Andreas Klein,
Alexander Korsantiya, Norman Krieger, Louis Lortie, Jon Nakamatsu, Garrick Ohlsson, Stephen Prutsman,
Jeffrey Siegel, Susan Starr, Alexei Sultanov, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, James Tocco and André Watts.
Anne Hastings Fiedler is currently Professor of Music at the University of Evansville, where she also serves as Music Department Co-chair and Keyboard Area Head. An active soloist, recitalist, and collaborative pianist, she has been featured on numerous occasions with the Evansville Philharmonic, the Evansville Chamber Orchestra and the University of Evansville Orchestras. She has collaborated nationally with a variety of soloists and ensembles, including International Trumpet Guild and International Double Reed Society events. She is active with over eight performances annually on the University of Evansville Faculty Recital Series and currently holds two contracts with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra: one as principal keyboard and another as a violinist.
Prof. Fiedler has Bachelor of Music with Highest Honors and Master of Music Degrees from the University of Illinois. In addition to studio piano teaching, she has taught courses in theory, orchestration, pedagogy and accompanying. She has reviewed theory texts for McGraw Hill Publishing and served as an adjudicator for numerous competitions, most recently at the state level for Indiana and Kentucky State Teachers Associations, Indiana School Music Association and the National Federation of Music Clubs. In the community, service includes the presidency of the Greater Evansville Chapter of the Indiana Music Teachers Association and membership on the Evansville Philharmonic Board and Players Committee.
A finalist and prizewinner in the National Beethoven Piano Sonata Competition, other distinctions are biographical listings in American Keyboard Artists, Outstanding Young Women of America and Who's Who Among American Teachers.
Douglas Reed has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Far East. Concert tours have taken him to England, Belgium, France, Scotland, Norway, the Czech Republic and Japan with performances in major cultural centers such as Paris, Prague, Antwerp and Yokohama. In addition to a solo harpsichord concert at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City, he has performed for the Eastman Musica Nova Series in Rochester, the University of Michigan Contemporary Directions Series in Ann Arbor, the Organ Historical Society National Convention in Chicago and numerous chapters of the American Guild of Organists.
His keen interest in the music of the French Classic composers, early German music and nineteenth and twentieth century French Romantic literature leads him to perform the widest possible variety of musical styles. He also has commissioned and premiered compositions by William Albright, Naji Hakim, Sydney Hodkinson and Alan Hovhaness. Dr. Reed performs as organist and harpsichordist on an ARKAY CD, William Albright: Music for Organ and Harpsichord. His recording premiere of William Albright's Four Fancies for Harpsichord, originally released by the Eastman School of Music on the Pro Viva label, was re-released by Albany Records as part of Eastman's Contemporary Music series. Douglas Reed performs on the C.B. Fisk Organ. Opus 98 and Douglas Reed Performs on the Taylor & Boody Organ are available on Mulberry St. Recordings.
Dr. Reed's most recent recording is a 2-CD set, In Memoriam William Albright, on the EQUILIBRIUM label. Performed on the C.B. Fisk Organ, Opus 110 in Minato Mirai Concert Hall, Yokohama, Japan, the recording includes two versions of The King of Instruments, one narrated in English by well-known radio-host, Michael Barone, and the other in Japanese by Sumiko Murashima. Michael Udow is percussionist.
The Cambridge Companion to the Organ, published by Cambridge University Press, includes Dr. Reed's chapter North American organ music after 1800.
Dr. Reed is professor of music and University Organist at the University of Evansville where he teaches organ, harpsichord, music theory and sacred music courses. He has received numerous research grants and awards for creative activity from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mesker Trust and the University of Evansville. He was the 1995 recipient of the University's Sadelle and Sydney Berger Annual Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity.
Dr. Reed holds the bachelor and master of music degrees in organ performance from the University of Michigan and a doctor of musical arts in performance and organ literature from the Eastman School of Music where he also earned the Performer's Certificate. His major organ teachers include Robert Clark, Robert Glasgow and Russell Saunders.
Pianist Garnet
Ungar has appeared throughout North America as soloist with orchestra, in recitals and masterclasses at major universities, and in solo and chamber broadcasts on Public Radio and the CBC. He has performed in Switzerland and England, and his recording of the Brahms Second Piano Concerto with the Varna Philharmonic in Bulgaria is distributed nationally on the Americus label. John Bell Young's glowing review in Clavier Magazine praised the performance as "powerful and precise…having solidity and passion, a magisterial presence, structural integrity, immediacy and intensity." 2007 will take him to Sweden, England, Canada, the United States, and Hong Kong for solo recitals.
Dr. Ungar has served on the piano faculties of Mount Royal College in Calgary and the University Settlement House in Toronto. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Evansville in Indiana on the piano faculty of the Music at Maple Mount Summer Institute in Kentucky. He regularly adjudicates competitions including the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival. His private students habitually capture top prizes in local and state competitions and perform frequently with professional orchestras.
Born in Montréal, Québec, Dr. Ungar obtained degrees in piano performance from the Universities of Toronto, Calgary, and Houston, where his principal teachers were Abbey Simon, Ruth Tomfohrde, William Aide, and Marilyn Engle. Additional studies include sessions at the Royal Conservatory of Toronto, where he obtained an Associate Performer's diploma, with Marek Jablonski at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Marc Durand and Anton Kuerti at the Centre d'Arts Orford in Québec, and Bernard Ebert at the Académie de Musique de Sion in Switzerland. His hobbies include web design, rebuilding plumbing and electrical systems, working on his dairy farm, and smoking cigars.
Performance: Three memorized compositions from different stylistic
periods (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern).
All other degrees: Two compositions, at least one memorized, from
different stylistic periods as given above.
Additional information may be obtained by contacting
Anne Fiedler,
Douglas Reed, or
Garnet Ungar, or by writing to
The University of
Evansville Department of Music, 1800 Lincoln Avenue, Evansville, Indiana, 47722.
Telephone (812) 488-2754.
