TarleTon STaTe UniverSiTy

DEGREES OFFEREDBachelor of Music in performanceBachelor of Music with all-level teacher certificationBachelor of Arts in music & music business

SCHOLARSHIPSTarleton is fortunate to have a generous endowment for piano scholarships. There are also academic scholarships, including the Presidential Honors Program for students with high academic standing.

AFFORDABLE TUITIONAttractive financial aid packages are available for prospective students.

Dr. LesLie spotz

D.M.A. Rutgers UniversityM.M. Temple UniversityB.M. Curtis Institute of MusicPianist Leslie Spotz enjoys an international solo career that has included performances at the Tchaikovsky Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the South Bank Center of London; the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the famed Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the inaugural opening of the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and her highly acclaimed tours throughout Germany.

For more information, contact:Dr. Leslie SpotzProfessor of PianoTarleton State UniversityDepartment of Fine ArtsBox T-0320Stephenville, TX 76402254.968.9241, spotz@tarleton.edu Tarleton State University

Department of Fine ArtsStephenville, Texas

Guest Artist

Juana Zayas

October 13- 14, 2017

Schedule of EventsOctober 13 - 14, 2017

Concert and Masterclasses/Workshops to be held in the

Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Theater

Friday, October 13

7:30 pm - Solo Piano Recital by Juana Zayas

reception foLLowing recitaL

Saturday, October 14

9:00 am to 11:00 am - Masterclass for students by Juana Zayas

11:00 am to 11:30 am - BREAK

11:30 am to 12:30 pm - Masterclass for students by Juana Zayas

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm - LUNCH

2:00 pm to 3:30 pm - Masterclass for students by Leslie Spotz

Tarleton State University an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and Educator, is committed

to excellence through diversity.A Member of the Texas A&M University System since 1917.

Erica Vosburg, NCTM & Resa Carrell, NCTMPianoWorks Music Studio

“We have attended the piano festival and each year we feel renewed and inspired in our teaching. Because Tarleton Piano Festival is the only event we know of in this region to offer master classes...we count on learning from the talented artists who work with the students. Our students leave the experience inspired and focused in their studies. The quality of the artist/teacher is always impressive.”

RegistRation and ticket oRdeR FoRm

Name

Address

City State Zip

Phone

E-mail

RecitalTicket x $10.00 = $Students x $5.00 = $

masteRclasses/WoRkshopsRegistration fee x $25.00 = $Student Registration fee x $15.00 = $

total = $

The masterclass sessions are open to intermediate and advanced level (8th-12th grade) students. Those interested in performing should send a recording of the piece they will play if chosen for the class. The piece should not be longer than 5-7 minutes. THE RECORDING MUST BE RECEIVED BY SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 TO BE CONSIDERED. Type the name of the work and composer on a separate sheet, including the name of the student and student’s teacher. Mail the recording, separate sheet, application form, and registration fee to the address on the back.

Checks should be made out to Tarleton State University or TSU and must include driver’s license number, signer’s date of birth, current address, name of participating student, and phone number. Registrations will be filled on a first come/first serve basis. ADVANCED REGISTRATIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017. All registration fees are non-refundable.

Juana Zayas

A native of Havana, Cuba, Juana Zayas practically grew up around the piano. When, at two years of age, she began spontaneously playing tunes on the piano, her mother (herself a pianist) realized she had a child prodigy living under her roof, and so promptly began to teach Juanita herself. At age of 7 Ms. Zayas gave her first recital and, at age 11, graduated with a Gold Medal from the Peyrellade Conservatory with a performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Six years later she entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, studying piano with Joseph Benvenuti and chamber music with René Le Roy. Upon receiving First Prize in both fields Ms. Zayas went on to earn a Medal with Distinction at the International Geneva Piano Competition.

In Paris Ms. Zayas met future husband Henri, a budding chemist who also happened to be Le Roy’s private flute student. They married in Versailles and soon afterwards moved to Cambridge, England, where Henri continued his studies in chemistry. In 1966 they emigrated to the United States of America.

Following their arrival in the United States, Juana studied with Adèle Marcus, David Bar-Illan, and Josef Raieff. Though raising her three children limited her concertizing, it did not

prevent her from expanding her repertoire and producing several critically-acclaimed recordings. Having emerged from this self-imposed hiatus from the frenetic music scene, Ms. Zayas has returned to the concert stage to glowing reviews and appreciative audiences the world over.

A Steinway artist, Ms. Zayas has given recitals throughout Europe, South America and the United States. She has performed with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Zeeuws Orchestra in the Netherlands, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española in Madrid, the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic orchestras, among others.

Wherever she has performed critics have invariably remarked on the depth of Ms. Zayas’s artistry. When, in 1977, she performed both sets of the Chopin Etudes at her Alice Tully Hall debut, Ms. Zayas so charmed the legendary New York Times critic Harold Schonberg that he would later declare, “Ms. Zayas turned out to be a Chopinist to the manner born.” Her 1983 release of these notoriously challenging pieces has entered the canon of twentieth century recordings, driving — in Schonberg’s words — “Chopinophiles mad with ecstasy.” In 2001 the Cuban Cultural Center of New York presented Ms. Zayas with the Ignacio Cervantes Medal, its prestigious lifetime achievement award for excellence in classical music. In 2010, her more recent release of the Chopin Etudes earned her the coveted Diapason d’Or Award from the prestigious French Diapason music journal, hailing her as “Une Grande Pianiste”.

In 2011, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of famous conductor Andrzej Markowski, the Markowski Foundation invited Ms. Zayas to perform in Poland. In Łodz she played the Ravel Concerto in G major with the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Marcin Niesiolowski. At the Sala Koncertowa Filharmonii in Wroclaw she impressed the audience with the sparkling brilliance of several Scarlatti sonatas, “the subtle painting of figures and moods” of Schumann’s Carnaval, and the unique “breadth and nobility of expression” in Chopin’s Sonata in B minor.

Over the past fifteen years Ms. Zayas has often performed at the Sala Verdi of Milan’s Conservatory of Music at the invitation of the prestigious Serate Musicali. She has recorded one of these successful recitals in her recent Soirée Italienne recording — a 2-CD set featuring numerous Italian-inspired works by Bach, Scarlatti, Clementi, Chopin, and Liszt.

Ms. Zayas and her husband reside in New Jersey. ~ H.F.