Lenoir-Rhyne College Music Program where he was honored with the harold bauer Achievement Award. An excellentpianist with a rare understanding of ensemble playing. http://www.lrc.edu/mus/Pages/Faculty/cheek.htm
Extractions: Intermezzo in C Major , Op. 119 No. 3 by J. Brahms Jo hn Cheek was appointed at Lenoir-Rhyne college in Fall 1998. A native of Little Rock, he made his professional debut with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra at age 13 and was guest soloist on more than a dozen occasions. Dr. Cheek has distinguished himself as top prize-winner in a number of important national and international music competitions sponsored by the National Society of Arts and Letters, the American Music Scholarship Association and the Liederkranz Club of New York. He also has the distinction of being the highest-ranking American in the 1986 Franz Liszt International Piano Completion held in Budapest. The ensemble has performed on (WNYC ), The Listening Room Dr. Cheek is the author of among other scholarly works and composer of Big Church Music (broadcast over National Public Radio)
Romantic For The Ages: Abbey Simon Among his teachers were David Saperton (sonin-law of another legendary pianistLeopold Godowsky), harold bauer (an Englishman rooted in the Romantic http://www.giles.com/yamaha1/pr/mus/piano/2003/abbey_simon_0803.htm
Extractions: BUENA PARK, CA (August 1, 2003)—When the great book of distinguished pianists is written, the name of Abbey Simon will be among the volume's prominent entries. A student of the great Polish pianist Josef Hofmann (who was a student of Russian pianist Anton Rubenstein), the 81 year-old maestro is a link to the old Romantic tradition. He specializes in works of the Romantic and early twentieth-century periods, notably those by Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. "I would never play any music that I didn't love," he notes. Simon has become synonymous with a style of virtuosity in which no aspect of the music seems too difficult. He has been described by The New York Times as a "super-virtuoso," and by another music critic as "a pianist's pianist." Described by the New York Times as a "super-virtuoso," 81-year-old Abbey Simon is a direct link to the glories of the old Romantic tradition. He embraces both the acoustic grandeur of the Yamaha CFIIIS and the technological advantages of the Yamaha Disklavier.
Daily Chronicle Online bauer said the $85000 price tag, which could fund as many as three decades One of the challenges of being a pianist is that, at some point in time, http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2004/09/14/neighbors/neighbors02.txt
Extractions: "The old piano was original equipment to the building, and it's the instrument which sees the most daily rehearsal and performance use," said Harold Kafer, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and a member of the school's piano faculty. "The piano was just simply worn out." "Generally, getting 15 years out of a performance piano is pretty good," added Paul Bauer, director of the School of Music. "The fact that we got 30 years out of it by rebuilding it 15 years ago - we had stretched it."
