Gary Barnett

Cherryl Everett

Fredericka King

Linda King

Patryce King

May Phang

Following a guest appearance with the Pasadena Symphony, The Los Angeles Times wrote of Gary Barnett as being a "thoughtful and meditative piano soloist." He has concertized in major cities throughout the world including Vienna, London, Paris, Prague, Rome, Buenos Aires, and Singapore. As a concerto soloist with orchestras across the United States, Barnett has performed under the baton of Brian Priestman, Loris Tjeknavorian, Jeff Manookian, among others. The Salt Lake Tribune has capitalized Barnett's talent as being "a virtuoso of the highest order."

As a recipient of the Tinker Research Field Grant in 1998, and again in 1999, Barnett traveled to Perú, Ecuador, and Argentina to conduct research and collect Latin American piano scores for his doctoral research at the University of Kansas. His past teachers include Jack Winerock, Lev Vlassenko, Manahem Pressler, and Gary Amano.

Dr. Barnett has given master-classes and lecture-recitals throughout the world which include the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Nanyang Academy of Arts in Singapore, and the National Conservatory of Music in Quito, Ecuador. He was the Grand Prize winner of the 1997 Ernst Krenek/Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition.

Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of piano at Westfield State College, Massachussetts, and during the summer, teaches at the Interlochen Arts Camp at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.

Lauren Schack Clark is Assistant Professor of Piano and Keyboard Activities Supervisor at Arkansas State University. She performs frequently as a soloist and collaborative artist. Recent solo performances and master classes include those at the University of Central Arkansas and Henderson State (AR) University. She has played with principle players of the Boston Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Scottish National Symphony, Slovenian Radio Symphony, Cincinnati Orchestra, Arkansas Symphony, and Memphis Symphony, and with faculty members of the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, Cincinnati-College Conservatory, Oberlin College, the University of Memphis, and Arkansas State University. She concertized in Paris in 1997 in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Vocal Study, and again at the 2001 French Piano Institute. With her husband, bassoonist Dr. Dale Clark, she has played at Florida State University, the University of Washington-Seattle, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Nebraska, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Boston Conservatory. She has appeared with the Marian Anderson String Quartet and the Memphis Chamber Music Society, and was the pianist for Opera Memphis during the 1998-99 season.

Her students have won first prizes in such competitions as the Tennessee Music Teachers Association Auditions and the Beethoven Club Competition. She is President of the Delta Music Teachers Association, chair of the Arkansas State Music Teachers Association Chamber Music and Young Artist Competitions, and has served as Secretary of the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association and the Greater Memphis Music Teachers Association. She is certified in piano and pedagogy through the Music Teachers National Association, and has published in Clavier Magazine. Dr. Clark taught at the University of Memphis and was Director of the Community Music School there. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Boston University, a Master's in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Northwestern University, a Graduate Diploma from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA , and a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Hartt School of Music.

EVERETT, Cheryl
Crawfordsville, Indiana


Teaching: Wabash College, Indiana


Master Class Repertoire:
Debussy - "Sarabande" & "Toccata" from Pour le Piano

Cheryl Everett is an adjunct instructor of piano at Wabash College and accompanist for the Glee Club. Ms. Everett is on the Executive Board of the Indiana Music Teachers Association and serves as the Ensemble Concert Chair. In 1999, she was honored by that organization as their "Teacher of the Year." Ms. Everett has performed in recitals and master classes in conjunction with the International Workshops in Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, and England. This past summer, she attended the International Workshops in Graz, Austria, where she performed as piano soloist and as accompanist for violin master classes. She is also Organist and Co-Choral Director of the Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church in Crawfordsville and is accompanist for the Crawfordsville Community Chorus. For eleven years, Ms. Everett was a student of Dorothy Munger, pianist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for thirty-two years. She is currently studying piano performance with Dr. Louis Nagel, Professor of Piano at the University of Michigan.

Ming-Fung Fung was born in Macau. She studied at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, earning both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees there. Her teachers have included Raymond Lewenthal, Zenon Fishbein, Dr. Donn-Alexandre Feder and private study with German Diez, student of Claudio Arrau in New York City.

She is a prize winner from the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival and distinction from The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, London. She has performed on television and radio in Hong Kong and in Hong Kong City Hall, and given solo recitals in New York.

She has adjudicated for the New Jersey Music Teachers Association Young Artists Competition; New Jersey Music Teachers Festival Auditions; Cecilian Music Club of Freehold Young Artists Competition; New Jersey Young Artist Competition Music Educator's Association; New Jersey Jewish Center Audition for Master Class; Piano Teachers Congress of New York; Associated Music Teachers League; New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition in NYC; Staten Island Young Artists Competition.

Ms. Fung's students have been prizewinners and scholarship recipients. They have performed at Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall), Steinway Hall, CAMI Hall, Columbia University and Tenri Cultural Institute in New York City; SUNY Purchase Conservatory Recital Hall and Piano Concerto with the Children Orchestra Society in New York. Her students have participated in the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artist's Summer Piano Program, Mass; and have been admitted to the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music.

Ms. Fung is on the faculty of Hoff-Barthelson Music School (Scarsdale,NY); Turtle Bay Music School (NYC); and The School for Strings (NYC). She is an active member of the Piano Teachers Congress of New York, Associated Music Teachers League, the Music Teachers National Association, and the Westchester Musicians Guild.

KING, Fredericka
Boston, Massachusetts


Teaching: New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School


Master Class Repertoire:
Chopin Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58 (1st movement)

Fredericka King, a pianist of outstanding technical ability and deeply sensitive musical instincts, has performed throughout the United States and internationally. Her Carnegie Recital Hall debut was praised by The New York Times for its "straightforward style and verve".

Miss King's solo performances have included recitals at Jordan Hall, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the historic African Meeting House, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She has appeared as soloist with several New England orchestras and has been the featured artist of radio broadcasts on stations such as WVPR in Vermont, WGBH in Boston, and WGMS in Washington, D.C. She was invited to perform at the Black American Music Symposium at the University of Michigan, the American Women Composers Conference at Boston University, and has presented programs celebrating Black History Month at the Museum of Our National Heritage, Southeastern Massachusetts University, and the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College.

As pianist and accompanist with the National Spiritual Ensemble, Miss King has performed in over 200 programs, in the United States and on tour in Spain. She is a founding member of La Femme, La Femme, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of solo and chamber works by women composers, and her recorded performances include a compact disc of solo works for piano and the chamber music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with the Coleridge Ensemble.

She has received degrees from Boston Conservatory of Music, New England Conservatory of Music, and has studied in the Doctoral program at Boston University. Ms.King was also awarded a Teaching Diploma by the Royal College of Music in London, England, and studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

Miss King is a member of the piano faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School, and an Associate Professor of Music History at Emerson College in Boston.

Linda King performs frequently as both soloist and in chamber ensembles. Recent performances have included solo recitals in Santa Fe and Las Vegas, New Mexico; and the Emperor Concerto by Beethoven, Piano Concertos, K. 466,  K.488 and K. 456 by Mozart, and the Bach D minor Concerto at New Mexico Highlands University with the Santa Fe Symphony.  She has performed in the Beethoven Festival of the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, playing Beethoven's Sonata for solo piano, Op. 81a and the "Spring" Sonata with violinist Michael Ludwig of Philadelphia.  The Piano Quartet Op. 47 by Schumann, with strings from the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, was performed in June 2003.

Linda has performed and lectured at Grinnell College in Iowa, been a frequent guest soloist in the Highlands University Bach Marathon, and performed in the Beethoven Sonatathon for the Santa Fe Symphony in 1999.  She performed for several years as part of the King-Klaisle Piano Duo.  She premiered the commissioned composition for the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico in 1996 and was president of the organization from 1996-1998.  In addition to her performances, she has been an adjudicator in regional and national competitions for the Music Teachers National Association.  

Linda King holds degrees in music from the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Austin.  She has studied with renowned pianists Leonard Shure and Ralph Berkowitz. She now teaches piano privately in Las Vegas and at the United World College in Montezuma, NM.

KING, Patryce
Austin, Texas


Teaching: Private Studio


Master Class Repertoire:
Rachmaninov - Six Morceaux for Four Hands, Nos. 3, 5 & 6
(with Karen White)

Affectionately referred to by "Patches", a new resident of Austin, TX, grew up in the Kansas City, MO area on a 250acre farm. Patryce King studied piano performance with James Sifferman at Southeast Missouri State University and piano pedagogy with Mia Kim at Central Missouri State University.

As a soloist, Miss King won Honorable Mention in the lower-level collegiate division and then Winner of the upper-level division in the Missouri Music Teachers Association. She has been a competitor in the Wideman Concerto Competition and recently won the Centennial Year Scholarship in the Sigma Alpha Iota 2003 Scholarship Competition. Her infectious personality and piano skills took her to Atlantic City vying for the title of Miss America 1999. On ABC Patches proudly represented the "Show Me" state. Her success as a chamber musician allowed her to perform for NPR's Martin Goldsmith along with trio members Kirk Miller and Liesl Schoenberg.

Hobbies include performing, running and swimming with Stanley, the " wonder dog", and Yoga. Just recently Patches ran the Freescale Marathon with a P.R. of 4:29. Patches and her husband, Josh, are thoroughly enjoying their new home and the eclectic nature of Austin, Texas.

Pianist Eliane Lust ( Eli-aan Loost ) specializes in bringing together the classical and modern piano repertoires. She has been the recipient of such prestigious awards as solo recital placement at the Paderewski Festival, the Villa Montalvo Discovery Series, Maybeck Recital Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, the Lagesse Foundation and the California Arts Council Touring Roster with additional award recognition for her innovative programming and dedication to new American music. Solo recital and master class tours throughout North America, Europe and French Polynesia have included participation in the Tanglewood, Aspen, Banff-Canada, Ernen-Musikdorf, Hereford-UK and Spoleto-Italy Music Festivals.

Lust's primary musical influences, György Sebök and Leonard Shure mark her musical lineage directly to Beethoven. Other important influences include the Americans pianist Richard Goode, composers Frederick Rzewski and Charles Shere, and Artur Schnabel's biographer, Konrad Wolff, whose piano she owns and works on. Of Franco-Belgian heritage, Lust is based in Paris, France and San Francisco, California where she gives lessons to highly dedicated musicians.

Eliane's unique discography also spans the range of old to new piano music and consists largely of her live performances, including Merge : works of Beethoven and Bartók, Lude : the 24 Chopin Preludes with Frederick Rzewski's 24 Ludes and the complete Mendelssohn Songs Without Words , Rocking : a compilation of 3 centuries of lullabies and boat songs, La Valse Française , The Speaking Pianist (solo repertoire for a pianist who speaks while playing) and the complete Chopin Nocturnes for piano.

MOSCHENROSS, Ian
Monmouth, Illinois


Teaching: Monmouth College, Illinois


Master Class Repertoire:
Chopin - Nocturne in D-flat major, Op.27 No.2
              - Etude in A-flat major, Op.25 No.1

Dr. Ian Moschenross earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music (magna cum laude) in 1998 from Hanover College, where his major teacher was Dr. C. Kimm Hollis. While at Hanover, he won the College-Community Orchestra Concerto Competition and gave numerous recitals throughout the region.

He earned the Master of Music (2000) and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees (2003) from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he studied under Dr. Mark Clinton. A frequent recitalist and collaborative pianist, Ian won the Graduate Concerto Competition at UNL twice and was the recipient of the McDonald Doctoral Fellowship.

Moschenross has been a featured concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, appearing at the Ameropa Chamber Music Festivalin Prague as well as the Meadowlark Festival. Ian has done advanced work with internationally renowned artists, including Leon Fleisher and Santiago Rodriguez. He is an active teacher, adjudicator, and performer in the region. Dr. Moschenross serves as Assistant Professor of Music at Monmouth College.

Pianist Anthony Pattin gave his New York debut concert at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in the spring of 1998. In a review of that concert, the critic for the New York Concert Review called Pattin, "a pianist of definite skills and strength."

Dr. Pattin has performed concerts throughout the United States, as well as on tour in Central America. Performing on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, one critic said this pianist demonstrated a "surety of playing.a beauty of phrasing.and an inner confidence." Said of his most recent New York recital, "Dr. Pattin is a solid presence onstage, confident and gracious. His music making speaks of great involvement and erudition. With the ear and ability to vary tone color with constancy, his palette is a good one." (Darrell Rosenbluth, New York Concert Review).

As an orchestral soloist, Dr. Pattin has performed with the Arkansas Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Temple Symphony (Texas), Toledo Symphony, and the Tuscaloosa Symphony. He is a featured pianist on National Public Radio and has appeared more than a dozen times on Alabama Public Television's Pianist at Work, a weekly program highlighting piano performance.

Anthony Philip Pattin's intense enthusiasm for music and the piano began at an early age in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio, where he received his first piano lessons. In high school, when he was singled out to perform as a concerto soloist, his career was decided. He subsequently earned the Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Toledo, and the Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a student of Theodore Lettvin and winner of the annual Concerto Competition. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Alabama in 1994. While a student at UA he studied with Professor Amanda Penick and performed with the University Orchestra as the Concerto-Aria Competition winner.

As the 2001 DeBose Artist at the Annual DeBose National Piano Competition and Festival in Baton Rouge, Dr. Pattin performed in recital, presented a master class, and was a competition judge. He has twice judged the Gladys Norris Perry Competition held in Jackson, MS. He received the 2001 Artist for the New Millennium Award bestowed by the University of Alabama for outstanding achievement in the area of performance.

In addition to his concert career, Dr. Pattin is Professor of Music at the University of Montevallo, where he received the 2001-2002 Distinguished Teacher Award for the College of Fine Arts. He was also named the University of Montevallo University Scholar for 2002-2003.

Erica Tam , pianist and instructor, began piano lessons at the age of four, and completed a Bachelor of Music Degree in piano performance at St. Olaf College in 1998. In 2001, she finished a Master of Music Degree in piano performance at Indiana University, Bloomington. She also completed a Performer's Diploma at Indiana University the following year. Her principle teachers include Mabel Wu, Teresita Bothelo, Nancy Paddleford, Shigeo Neriki, as well as Edward Auer.

Before coming to the United States, Erica has won numerous prizes in many competitions and other musical events in Hong Kong, where she was born and raised. During college, she graduated Magna Cum Lauda, and was awarded the highest honor of Departmental Distinction for her excellent achievement at St. Olaf College. She also earned Pi Kappa Lambda (music) honor society membership and two other music scholarships while attending St. Olaf.

Upon graduation from St. Olaf, Erica was admitted to Indiana University, one of the most prestigious music schools in the country for her Master's Degree as well as Performer's Diploma. She was awarded with graduate teaching assistantship while studying at IU, and she was also on the faculty for IU Young Pianist Program (pre-college program) under the supervision of Dr. Karen Taylor.

Erica is currently on the piano faculty of Sherwood Conservatory of Music in Chicago. In addition to her teaching duties, Erica also accompanies special music productions and events at the Conservatory. Erica tries her best to maintain her capacity as a solo performer as well as an accompanist in Chicagoland. She is one of the accompanists for Wheaton College where she works with the students in the Conservatory of Music. She was also the accompanist for the Chicago Community Choir that is part of the Musicians Residency Program of Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Erica has had extensive accompanying experiences and solo performances including Indiana, Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Bolivia, as well as her homeland, Hong Kong. In 2002, she performed at Carnegie Hall with the IU Children's Choir and traveled with them on many tours. She has also recorded 2 CDs "Tomorrow" (2001) and "Christmas Old & New" (2002) with soprano Joni McFarland as a volunteer for the LATCOM Mission - a ministry for proclaiming the Gospel of Christ in Latin America by CGR Production. In Summer 2003, she has also performed in Grant Park Festival with students of Sherwood.

Karen White is a native of Texas. She earned both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Piano Performance at Texas Christian University studying with Mme. Lili Kraus. She continued her studies in New York City with Nina Svetlanova. She then lived in Madrid, Spain for three years where she taught in a private music academy.

She moved to Austin, TX in 1992 and maintains a private studio there. She is also on the piano faculty of the Armstrong Community Music School. Her great love is chamber music and she is an active chamber musician in Austin. She is very active in her local chapter of the National Music Teachers Association. She is especially interested in performance-related injury and has spent considerable time and energy exploring the work of Dorothy Taubman, F. Matthias Alexander, and Moshe Feldenkrais.

Outdoor hobbies include hiking, bicycling, rock climbing, and gardening.