Piano Program

Introduction

The Music Department at St. Petersburg College provides opportunities for music instruction on several levels. In addition to private music lessons for non-degree-seeking students, we offer a two-year program of traditional academic music instruction leading toward a bachelor’s degree at a transfer institution of the student’s choice. This program consists of four areas of instruction in music: music theory, applied music lessons in the primary performance area, applied music lessons in the secondary performance area, and ensembles.

Overview of SPC Music Department

All piano students have numerous performance opportunities both on campus and in the community. They may attend performances and participate in workshops, seminars, and master classes that are presented by distinguished musicians that visit the SPC campus, such as Leonid Feliksovich Tamulevich (Associate Professor of Piano at St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia), Paul Posnak (University of Miami), Pascal Roge (International Artist), Rebecca Penneys (Eastman School of Music, St. Petersburg College, visiting artist).

Audition Requirements

• This is a representative list that can be used as a guideline:
      A. J.S. Bach: Sinfonias, French Suites, Prelude and Fugue from the Well-tempered Clavier
      B. Sonatas by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
      C. A work from the Romantic period: Chopin: Waltzes, Nocturnes, Polonaises, etc.; Schubert: Impromptu
      D. A work from the twentieth century: Debussy, Bartok, etc.

Facilities

In the Fall of 2000, St. Petersburg College celebrated the grand opening of its new Music Center, the only performing venue in the Tampa Bay area with two concert grand Steinway pianos and Heissler Pipe Organ. The hall provides an acoustically superior environment for music performance.

Located in the Humanities building (HS), the Recital Hall (HS 117), is equipped with two new seven-foot Steinway pianos. This hall is frequently used for student recitals, public presentations, studio classes, and rehearsals.

The Music Technology Lab/Piano Lab is one of the most advanced and well-equipped labs in this region. It has seventeen stations, each with a computer and monitor, and a full-range Clavinova touch-sensitive electronic piano with pedals. Computers are installed with software for music sequencing and notation, including Sonar, Finale, Cubase, Digital Performer, Freestyle and Studio Orchestrator. Computers are also equipped with software for music theory remediation and self-tutoring with software such as Indiana University’s ET Drill, Mibac, and Auralia.

Faculty studios are equipped with two grand pianos (one seven-foot Steinway and one six-foot Yamaha or Kawai). Sound-proof practice rooms are available in the practice suite in the Humanities building. At the beginning of each semester, students may reserve practice times in these rooms.

Piano Faculty

Dr. Dolores Gadevsky has served as piano faculty at Chautauqua Institution, the Eastman School of Music,
Los Angeles Conservatory, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Csehy Summer School of Music, and the University of Central Arkansas, where she was also a member of the faculty trio. She retired in 2005 from Houghton College, where she was Associate Professor in Piano. While residing in Vienna for eight years she coached at the Weiner Kammeroper, was a free-lance accompanist, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg was accompanist for Rita Streich, Carlos Alexander, and Enrico Mainardi. In recent years she has been invited
to conduct numerous piano master classes, most recently at Taylor University and at Eastern College. She also utilizes every opportunity to participate in chamber music. She is currently serving as Adjunct Professor at St. Petersburg College in Tarpon Springs and at St. Petersburg, Gibbs campus.

Dr. Gadevsky received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music and was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to the Musikhochschule at Freiburg im Breisgau. At the Music Academy in Vienna she studied with Bruno Seidlhofer, where she received the Performer’s Diploma, and in Paris studied briefly with Nadia Boulanger. Her solo and chamber music recitals include numerous performances in Europe, South America, and the United States, including appearances at Brahms Saal in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and La Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango in Bogotá. She has appeared on Austrian National Radio, Colombian National Television, and in California she gave a series of live weekly radio programs devoted to solo piano literature. She was a piano soloist with the Orquesta Fiilarmonica de Bogotá and with the Kern Philharmonic Orchestra, and played the world premiere of the John Cowell Piano Concerto with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center.

Berthe Honein received her Master’s in Musicology and Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of the Holy Spirit-Kaslik (USEK). Professor Honein is multi-lingual and speaks Arabic and French as well as English. Her professional experience includes professor of music languages at USEK, Vice President of the administrative committee of the forum of music institutes of most countries in the Middle East and north of Africa including Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunis, and Sudan etc. She also served as a professor of psychology and philosophy of music education at the Ecole Normale in Lebanon. For the last seven years, Honein enjoyed a position as the Director of studies and the Academic secretary of the faculty of music at USEK-Lebanon. Honein published a book and CD entitled “Rehna Mechoir”, Lebanese songs for children and two CDs of Lebanese songs for children entitled "Dum Dum Tack" and "Jnaynit Aghani”. In 1995 she published a manual entitled “Do-Mi-SOL” for teaching music.