10:00 a.m. CAMTA BuSINESS MEETING
11:00 a.m. Professional Development Program
Tian Tian, Associate Professor of Music
“Technique Development Through Scales and Arpeggios”
Scales and arpeggios are fundamental and essential to a pianist’s technical development. Passageworks can be “categorized” as either scales that contain adjacent movement or arpeggios that require positions changes. This lecture will focus on patterns, explain challenges that they present, and discuss ways to solve them.
BIOGRAPHY
Pianist Tian Tian began her training at the age of four in her native China. Upon arriving in the United States, she quickly began amassing top prizes at national and international competitions. She received degrees from the Juilliard School and Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of renowned pedagogues such as Robert McDonald, Nelita True and Logan Skelton. Tian has presented solo concerts across the US, Canada and China. She has also appeared in music festivals such as Piano Texas, the Gilmore Festival, and Summer Courses with Arie Vardi (Germany). An avid chamber musician, Tian has performed with the Juilliard Quartet, Imani Winds and toured in the US, China, and Korea as a member of the Studzinsky Trio. Tian currently serves on the faculty of Oakland University as Associate Professor of Piano and Area Coordinator. Her in depth analysis of technique and charismatic teaching style have made her a frequent guest speaker at numerous teachers’ groups and earned her the title of Honorary Professor at ten different universities in China.