About CPI

The Collaborative Piano Institute (CPI) is a unique summer program created by collaborative pianists, in which YOU get all the attention! We achieve this through an intensive experience tailored to your individual needs: individual lessons, group lessons, coachings, masterclasses, group classes, lectures, and performance opportunities with professional musicians.

CPI’s main goal is to give you as much information as possible and prepare you for the next steps in your life as collaborative pianist, whether they are upcoming auditions for graduate school or Young Artist Programs, making pre-screening recordings, or honing the skills required for a successful career in the field.

THE COLLABORATIVE PIANO SUMMER INSTITUTE OFFERS LECTURES AND GROUP CLASSES IN:

  • Diction: Italian, French, German, Russian, Czech, Spanish, and more!
  • Musical style and interpretation
  • Audition preparation for graduate school, summer festivals, and Young Artist Programs
  • Vocal coaching and score preparation
  • Setting up a coaching studio and career building tips
  • Technique issues
  • Time management
  • Recital programming
  • Working with and as a conductor
  • Opportunity to record prescreening video and audio
  • See more about the Curriculum here!
CPI participants

CPI participants

CPI HAS WELCOMED A STELLAR FACULTY THROUGHOUT THE YEARS (for the current roster click here):

  • Rita Sloan (Artist faculty and Founder of the Collaborative Piano Program, Aspen Music Festival; Director of Collaborative Piano, University of Maryland)
  • Anne Epperson (Director of Collaborative Piano, Indiana University)
  • Martin Katz (Earl V. Moore Collegiate Professor in Music at the University of Michigan; SongFest, Merola Opera Program, Music Academy of the West)
  • Jonathan Feldman (Professor of Collaborative Piano, the Juilliard School, New England Conservatory; Music Academy of the West)
  • Warren Jones (Professor of Collaborative Piano, Manhattan School of Music; Merola Opera program, Toronto Summer Music, Manchester Music Festival, Source Song Festival)
  • Kathleen Kelly (Associate Professor at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; former Director of Musical Studies at the Vienna Staatsoper; former Head of Music/Music Director at Houston Grand Opera)
  • Howard Watkins (Assistant Conductor, Metropolitan Opera; Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music, NCSA, Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival )
  • Marie-France LeFebvre (Professor of Opera/Voice Coaching, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, guest pianist and conductor Cincinnati Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, Wolf Trap, Santa Fe Opera)
  • Timothy Lovelace (Professor of Collaborative Piano and Coaching, University of Minnesota; Ravinia Music Festival)
  • Elena Abend (Professor of Piano, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
  • Christopher Turbessi (Lecturer, Shepherd School of Music, freelance pianist, conductor, and vocal coach)
  • Elvia Puccinelli (Professor of Collaborative Piano and Vocal Coaching at University of North Texas School of Music; Founder and President of the International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society and CollabFest; OperaWorks, Fall Island, Opera Lucca)
  • Colette Valentine (Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano, Butler School of Music, The University of Texas at Austin)
  • Matthew Brower (Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano, Washington College; Director of the Collaborative Piano Program, University of Delaware’s (UD) Master Players Summer Festival)
  • Elena Lacheva (Professional-in-Residence, Louisiana State University)
  • Ana Maria Otamendi (Director of Collaborative Piano, Louisiana State University)

INSPIRING INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS HAVE OFFERED INSIGHT FROM THE FRONT SIDE OF THE PIANO:

  • Korliss Uecker (renowned soprano with over 150 performances at the MET, Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass, Feminine Musique Duo)
  • Timothy Jones (bass-baritone, sought-after recital and orchestra soloist, Associate Professor of Voice, Moores School of Music at the University of Houston)
  • John Daugherty (baritone, frequent opera, orchestra and recital appearances, Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera Program Director, University of North Florida)
  • Jesse Blumberg (baritone, frequent opera, orchestra and recital soloist, founder, Five Boroughs Music Festival)
  • Melanie Sonnenberg (mezzo-soprano, NYCO, WNO, Hamburg Staatsoper, Dallas Opera, Professor of Voice, University of Houston
  • Martin Bakari (tenor, frequent opera, orchestra and recital soloist, Adjunct Professor, Mannes School of Music)
  • Jennifer Olson (soprano, Professor of Voice, Bemidji State University)
  • Simon Gollo (violinist, Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University, member of the Reveron Trio)
  • Eric Olson (violinist, Executive Director and Grant Writer, Minnesota Pops, former director of the pre-conservatory program at Shattuck- St. Mary’s School)
  • Noah Rogoff (cellist, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Kearney)
  • Horacio Contreras (cellist, Assistant Professor, Lawrence University and Music Institute of Chicago, member of the Reveron Trio) see other guest Faculty members
  • Joshua Anderson (clarinetist, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno)

Join us this summer at CPI! More information on applications here!