UW-River Falls Keyboard Festival
Continuing Education
Email: continuing.ed@uwrf.edu
Phone: 715-425-3256
Expanding the Musical Imagination
Experience engaging workshops, inspiring performances, and hands-on learning opportunities that encourage exploration, deepen engagement with keyboard studies, and foster artistic and technical growth.
Festival Details
When: Nov. 13-14
Where: The campus of UW-River Falls (410 S. 3rd St., River Falls, WI,) Kleinpell Fine Arts, William Abbott Concert Hall
- Explore the Pipe Organ - The "King" of instruments
Lectures, Workshops, Master Class Observations and Recitals are open to all registered attendees. Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Master class participation is open to all interested piano students in grades 6-12 for a small fee, more information below.
Register by Wednesday, Nov. 11 (includes college students, grade 1-12 students, parents, teachers and others)
Master Class Participation Opportunity, Saturday, Nov. 14
Master class participation is open to all interested piano students in grades 6-12. Students interested in applying for inclusion must choose the fee payment during registration ($35) and submit an audition video of their musical selection after registering (link provided in confirmation email.) The audition video must include student name, selection title, and composer. The deadline for this special opportunity is Friday, Nov. 6.
Pieces for the audition video must be memorized, and the student must bring the original score to the festival.
- ALL students applying for this opportunity will receive a small group Master Class with UWRF faculty, including some individualized coaching.
- The most advanced students will then be selected to participate in a Master Class with a guest artist later in the day.
- Several students will be selected to perform in the Closing Recital.
A high level of preparation is expected from every participant. Each student, with the help of their piano instructor, must prepare a solo piece at a performance level which best demonstrates the applicant’s technical skills and musicality. Suggested piano repertoire should be chosen from curated literature lists such as WSMA Solo & Ensemble Festival, WMTA Piano Solo Festival/Contest, or MMT Piano Festival. Examples may include Debussy Preludes, Chopin Scherzo, Ballade, Waltz, Mazurka or Etudes, Bach Toccata, Prelude and Fugue.
Festival Schedule
Friday, Nov. 13
Noon - Peter Mack, Coffee Concert
1 p.m. - Reception and Lunch hour
2 p.m. - Master Class with Mikhail Shilyaev for Piano Ensemble Students
3 - 4:30 p.m. - Master Class for UWRF Piano Soloists with Peter Mack
7 p.m. - Recital - Mikhail Shilyaev
Saturday, Nov. 14
8 a.m. - Check-in desk opens
8:30 - 9:15 a.m.- Organ Workshop with UWRF Faculty
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Master Class #1 with Peter Mack for selected MS/HS students
10 - 11 a.m. - Studio Class for selected MS/HS with UWRF Piano Faculty
10 - 11 a.m. - UWRF Class Piano students - Meet with Mikhail Shilyaev
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.- Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 p.m. - Master Class #2 with Peter Mack for selected MS/HS students
2 - 3 p.m. - Alexander Technique Workshop (Optional)
3:30 p.m. - Q&A with Peter Mack and Break with Refreshments
4 p.m. - Recital in Abbott with top MS/HS students plus Peter Mack & Mikhail Shilyaev
6 p.m. - Festival closes
Featured Artists:
The UW-River Falls Keyboard Festival was made possible through the generous support of
Mary Ella Jerome and the Mary Ella Jerome Family Foundation.
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