Piano Faculty
JOHN PERRY, Distinguished Visiting Artist
University of Southern California, Colburn School
Glenn Gould School, Royal Conservatory, Toronto
John Perry earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Eastman School of Music. He was a student of Cecile Genhart, and during those summers worked with Frank Mannheimer. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, he worked with Wladyslav Kedra in Vienna and Carlo Zecchi in Rome. Mr. Perry has achieved considerable acclaim as a touring and recording artist, has won numerous prizes in international competitions and has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America.
Mr. Perry records for labels including Telefunken, Musical Heritage Society, CBC, Fox and ACA, which recently released his recording of three major American works for piano solo: Paul Cooper's Sinfonia, Sam Jones' Sonata for Piano, and the Piano Sonata of Donald Keats. As a respected chamber musician, Mr. Perry collaborates with some of the world's finest instrumentalists. He has also attained an international reputation as a teacher, presenting master classes throughout the world.
His students have been first-prize winners in major competitions including the Rubinstein, Music Teachers' National Association, Naumburg, Chopin National competition, Beethoven Foundation competition, Federated Music Clubs, the Young Keyboard Artists Association, American Music Society Competition and Young Musicians Foundation.
Mr. Perry is a member of the faculty of the Colburn School for Performing Arts, a frequent guest faculty member at the Banff Centre, artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival, the Sarasota Festival and the Holland Music Sessions. During the academic year, he is on faculty for the Thornton School of Music, the University of Southern California and The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
STEPHEN DEITZ
South Shore Conservatory
Stephen Deitz began his piano studies at the age of six, studying with Levin Houston and Evelyn Swarthout Hayes of Washington, D.C. He studied with Adele Marcus and Oxana Yablonskaya, both of the Juilliard School, and completed his M.M. at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, as a student of John Perry. Although beginning his doctoral studies with Nelita True at the University of Maryland, College Park, he interrupted them after being named Artist-in-Residence at the Dunbarton School of Music in Bermuda. He subsequently resumed doctoral studies at the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Solomon Mikowski, Constance Keene, and Jeffrey Cohen.
MONIQUE DUPHIL
Oberlin College
At the age of ten, Monique Duphil entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris and studied under Jean Doyen, Marguerite Long and Joseph Calvet. Having won the First Prize in piano at age 16, she graduated the following year with the Grand Prize in Professional Chamber Music. Subsequent studies were with Harriet Serr and Vladimir Horbowski. Ms. Duphil's debut at age 15, with the Orchestre de Paris, where she performed Mendelssohn's G-minor Piano Concerto, was followed by prizes in four international competitions, including the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, which launched her on a worldwide career.
In recognition of her spectacular debut in the United States with the Philadelphia Orchestra, where she substituted with only a few hours' notice for cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Ms. Duphil was reengaged by Eugene Ormandy. Following this auspicious beginning, she made a total of seven appearances with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, performing two concerti on each occasion. Invited by Charles Dutoit, she recorded, in live performance for the Swiss Radio, the Ginastera Piano Concerto No. 1. Yoel Levi chose Monique to premiere Roger Sessions' Piano Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra.
While based in Hong Kong, she performed recitals, chamber music, and concerti with orchestras in Western and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Korea, Japan, China, India, New Zealand, Australia, North Africa , the United States, and every country in South America. The duo she formed in 1976 with her husband, Jay Humeston, formerly the Hong Kong Philharmonic's principal cellist, was highly successful in America, Europe, and throughout Asia. Praised by Hong Kong 's press as "possibly Asia 's finest pianist," Ms. Duphil was invited by the Shanghai Symphony to be their soloist at the second China International Arts Festival in Beijing.
In addition to her performances with the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, Ms. Duphil has also appeared with numerous other symphony orchestras, including Quebec, Warsaw, Bern, Munich, Paris, Caracas, Mexico, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Seoul, Tokyo Metropolitan, Sapporo, Kanazawa, Taipei, Singapore, Hong Kong Philharmonic, the NZSO and the orchestras of the ABC. In these many performances she has collaborated with such conductors as Ormandy, Markevich, M. Shostakovich, Smetacek, Wislocki, Akiyama, Fukumura, Verbitsky, Sir Alexander Gibson, Peter Maag, Ling Tung, Charles Dutoit, Thomas Sanderling, James de Priest, Yoel Levi, Gerard Schwarz, Eduardo Mata and George Hurst.
As a distinguished chamber musician, Monique Duphil has partnered with many renowned artists, including Henryk Szeryng, Andre Tchaikovsky, Ruggiero Ricci, Karl Leister, Pierre Fournier, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Cho-Liang Lin, Lynn Chan, and Michel Debost. She has also collaborated with many renowned ensembles, including The Salzburg Mozarteum Trio, the Vienna Philharmonic String Quartet, Musikverein String Quartet, St. Petersburg String Quartet, Chester String Quartet, Portland String Quartet and the American String Quartet.
DANIEL SHAPIRO
Cleveland Institute of Music
Daniel Shapiro, Piano, received a Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory. Teachers have included Leon Fleisher, John Perry, Joanna Graudan, and Reginald Stewart. Dr. Shapiro continues to gain recognition as a leading interpreter of Schubert, Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven, whose thirty-two sonata cycle he has twice performed. His CD on the Azica label of Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations has earned critical acclaim from a variety of reviewers. He has given recitals and concerto appearances across the U.S., in Brazil, Britain, Ireland, Spain and France, and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Dr. Shapiro has performed with orchestras including the National Symphony, the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of London, the Colorado National Repertory Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony and the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra. He received the top prize at the 1992 William Kapell International Piano Competition, and also won the American Pianists' Association Beethoven Fellowship Award. As a chamber musician, he has performed regularly with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chicago and Cleveland Orchestras, and has also performed with the Cavani and Miró Quartets. He has participated at the Marlboro and Ravinia Festivals and the Fellowship Program at Tanglewood. As a conductor, Dr. Shapiro studied with Daniel Lewis, Victor Yampolsky, Fritz Zweig, and Gustav Meier. He recently conducted Mozart's "Don Giovanni" with the Akron Lyric Opera. A native of Southern California, Dr. Shapiro began the study of piano at the age of six. He was previously on the piano faculty of the University of Iowa.
TATIANA TCHEKINA
Eastman School of Music
The pianist Tatiana Tchekina was born in Moscow into a family of singers. She studied at the Kiev and Moscow Conservatories with Vsevolod Topilin and Boris Zemlyansky. Since 1967, Ms. Tchekina has been performing with her husband, the violinist Oleh Krysa, in solo and chamber music recitals in major concert halls throughout the Soviet Union (including Great Hall at Moscow Conservatory), Europe (including Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Semper Oper) , United States (including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Korea, Japan and has received world wide critical acclaim.
Tatiana Tchekina also appeared at major music festivals in Russia (“Moscow Stars”), Czechoslovakia (“Prague Spring”), Austria (Wiener Fest), Finland (Kuhmo, Korsholm), USA (Oregon Bach Festival, The Lake Winnipesaukee Music Festival, Park City International Chamber Music Festival) and Australia (Townsville). She has recorded on the MELODIYA, BIS, TRITON, TNC and RUSSIAN DISC labels with violinist Oleh Krysa.
Ms. Tatiana Tchekina taught Chamber Music at Kiev Conservatory and Accompanying at Gnesin Musical and Pedagogical Institute in Moscow. Currently she is Assistant Professor of Accompanying at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY. Ms. Tchekina’s upcoming engagements include a concert tour this year of the United States, Canada, Spain, Russia, Ukraine and Japan.
REGINA YUNG, Collaborative Pianist
South Shore Conservatory
A native of Hong Kong, Regina Yung has performed as a soloist, collaborative pianist, and chamber musician in numerous venues throughout Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her performances have been broadcast on radio and television on RTHK in Hong Kong, GLR Classical Radio in London, WQXR Radio and WNBC television in New York. She was also interviewed and reviewed by a number of major publications, including The South China Morning Post of Hong Kong, The Times and The Evening Standard of London, and the String Magazine in the United States.
As a teacher, Ms. Yung has taught at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Oberlin College Conservatory, the Manhattan School of Music and its Summer Music Camp. She was also on the piano faculty of the Amadeus and Concordia Conservatories and an adjunct faculty member at the Concordia College in Bronxville, New York.
Regina Yung graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and received a Performance Certificate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She obtained her Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory, and her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Manhattan School of Music.
This will be Ms. Yung's fourth season with the Duxbury Music Festival. She is a member of the Piano Faculty of South Shore Conservatory.
