Piano Department

Paul Schenly Reinberger Chair in Piano; Head, Piano Department, was the winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize. Mr. Schenly holds a Master of Music degree from CIM, where he studied with Victor Babin. He serves as artistic director of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and is the founder/director of PianoFest in the Hamptons. He has played extensively with major orchestras throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco Symphonies, The Cleveland Orchestra, and Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics. He has performed with many of the world's leading conductors, including James Levine, Erich Leinsdorf, Christoph von Dohnányi, Edo de Waart, Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert Shaw, and Aaron Copland. He has appeared in many summer festivals, including the Hollywood Bowl, Ravinia Festival, Blossom, and the Mostly Mozart Festival, and has toured Europe with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and appeared at the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, and in acclaimed recitals at Carnegie Hall. He serves on the advisory board of the American Pianists Foundation and on the nominating committee for the Gilmore Piano Foundation. He has recorded for Sine Qua Non and RCA and was artist-in-residence at the Ravinia Festival and a faculty member at the Music Academy of the West. Born in Munich, Mr. Schenly lived in South America before coming to the U.S. at the age of five. He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1971.

Sergei Babayan Piano, is the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gilliam Artist-in-Residence at CIM. Acclaimed for the immediacy, sensitivity and depth of his interpretations, Mr. Babayan's performances reveal an emotional intensity and bold energy, equipping him to explore stylistically diverse repertoire. He is known for his innovative programming, often including modern works by composers such as Lutoslawski, Ligeti and Arvo Pärt, and extending the boundaries of mainstream repertoire for which he continues to be acclaimed, excelling in Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann as much as the Russian heritage of Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Prokofiev. A student of such legendary teachers and musicians as Gornostayeva, Naumov, Pletnev and Vlasenko at the Moscow Conservatory, he was not permitted to leave the country and be free to compete and study in the West. He was the first pianist from the former USSR who was able to compete without government sponsorship after the collapse of the system. Immediately after his first trip outside of the USSR, Mr. Babayan won consecutive first prizes in several major international competitions including the 1990 Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition (now the Cleveland International Piano Competition); 1990 Palm Beach International Piano Competition; 1991 Hamamatsu Piano Competition; and 1992 Scottish International Piano Competition. He is also a Laureate of the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition, the Busoni International Piano Competition and the Esther Honens International Competition in Calgary, Canada. Since that time, Mr. Babayan has had major engagements and concert tours throughout Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, South America, China and the U.S. His New York recitals at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, performances with The Cleveland Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony and Detroit Symphony have been met with huge critical acclaim, as have his many subsequent recital and concerto performances throughout all the major cities in the U.S. His concert schedule has included performances and broadcasts throughout major European cities and extensive tours of Japan. He has appeared in recital in such important venues as Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Bolshoy Zal of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg, Herkulessaal in Munich, Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Meistersingerhalle in Nurnberg, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Brahmsallee in Karlsruhe, Beethovenhalle in Bonn and many others. Mr. Babayan has appeared at numerous major music festivals in France, Germany, the UK, Poland, Spain, China and the U.S. His concerts have been broadcast by WQXR, WCLV, Radio France, Polish Radio and Television, BBC-TV and NHK Satellite Television. He has made several highly praised recordings for the EMC, Connoisseur Society and Pro Piano labels. Deep interest and love for the music of Bach has led him to study more recently with Helmuth Rilling. Always in search of the new, Mr. Babayan studied conducting in order to deepen his understanding of the orchestra. In this role, he has already performed music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schnittke, Pärt, Vasks, Schedrin and Prokofiev. Mr. Babayan was invited by Valery Gergiev to perform at the international" Stars of the White Nights''Festival in St.Petersburg with the orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre.the performance was recieved with huge enthusiasm by audience and was highly acclaimed in the major Russian press. Highlights of next season include performances in Prague Spring Festival and performances with London symphony orchestra at Barbican center with Valery Gergiev.

Judson Billings Head, Secondary Piano Department, received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Montana and a Master of Music degree from CIM. He has performed in master classes with Grant Johannesen, piano, and Dalton Baldwin and John Wustman, accompanying. He was the recipient of the William Kurzban Award in Piano and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1978.

Kathryn Brown Associate Head, Piano Department, performs internationally as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist. She has received numerous international prizes, including the Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts and the Darius Milhaud Prize, and was first-prize winner of the National Young Artists Competition, San Antonio International Keyboard Competition, Pro Piano Competition. She performed her New York Solo Debut Recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. One of she has appeared in recital at the Library of Congress and Columbia Artists' Community Concerts Series. She is pianist and co-founder of the Myriad Chamber Players, a 17-member ensemble comprised of members of The Cleveland Orchestra and international soloists. Her chamber music credits include performances at the Marlboro Music Festival in collaborations with members of the Guarneri String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio. She teamed with Dmitri Ashkenazy on Ravinia's Rising Stars series, and performed on tour in Estonia, Sweden, and Africa as a winner of the USIA Artistic Ambassadors Competition. As a member of the Verdehr Trio, she appeared in recital at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, and in London and Prague. Ms. Brown has been featured on the British Broadcasting Network, the PBS Artistry of... series, Chicago's WFMT Radio, and NPR's Performance Today. An accomplished singer, she is a frequent recitalist and was featured in a title role at the Aspen Music Festival. She also performed in the Phyllis Curtin Seminar at Tanglewood. She studied piano with Deborah Moriarty, Ralph Votapek, and Yong Hi Moon at Michigan State University, Julian Martin at the Peabody Conservatory and studied privately with Maria Curcio in London. She received an Artist Diploma from CIM under the tutelage of Paul Schenly. Ms. Brown has been on the faculty of the California Summer Music for the last nine summers and gives master classes throughout the year. She was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1993. E-mail

Emanuela Friscioni Piano, began studying piano in Italy at age five and made her debut at the age nine. She received a diploma in piano performance from the"Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory in Milan, with full marks, and went on to study with Annamaria Pennella. Other teachers have included Paul Badura-Skoda, Aldo Ciccolini and Bruno Canino. Ms. Friscioni has won many national and international first prizes, including those at the Tortona, Moneglia, Camaiore, Chieti, and Kawai Piano Competitions. She has performed throughout Italy, in Switzerland, France and other European countries. She made her U.S. debut in July 2000 with Cleveland Orchestra violinist Gino Raffaelli. Since then, she has enjoyed a career that has seen her perform solo recitals, orchestral engagements and chamber music appearances. Among her collaborations, she played Schubert's Quintet Op.114"The Trout" with members of The Cleveland Orchestra and was again invited by Orchestra members in 2004 to play an all-Brahms program. Ms. Friscioni's recent performances have included Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the National Repertory Orchestra; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Canton Symphony; chamber music and solo performances at the Music in the Mountains festival; and Franck's Symphonic Variations with the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed recitals in California, New Mexico, New York and Ohio. Her piano duets with her husband, pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi, have earned them many prizes and wonderful reviews. Ms. Friscioni is also an accomplished professor of piano, first in Italy, where many of her pupils have won prizes and scholarships, and now in the U.S. As a teacher and artistic director, she founded and manages the Classical Piano Performance Academy at Cuyahoga Community College. She was appointed to the CIM faculty in 2004. E-mail

Joela Jones Orchestral Keyboard, is principal keyboardist of The Cleveland Orchestra. She received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from CIM as a student of Victor Babin and Arthur Loesser. In 2006, she received the Institute's Distinguished Alumni Award. An artist of exceptional versatility, Ms. Jones plays piano, harpsichord, organ, celesta and accordion. She has frequently appeared as piano soloist with the Orchestra, performing 50 different concertos ranging from Bach to Messiaen. Since the renovation of Severance Hall's Norton Memorial Organ in 2001, Ms. Jones has been featured in numerous works for organ and orchestra including Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony, Poulenc's Organ Concerto, Barber's Festival Toccata and the U.S. premiere of James MacMillan's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for chorus and organ. She serves as principal accompanist for the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and for visiting vocal soloists. As a teenager, Ms. Jones made her New York debut with Arthur Fiedler and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Lewisohn Stadium. She has appeared as soloist with the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Philadelphia and San Francisco. She chairs the piano division and coaches chamber music at Kent/Blossom Music. Included in Ms. Jones' discography are works by Poulenc and d'Indy recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. She has recorded Janáček's Capriccio for Left Hand with Christoph von Dohnányi for Decca/London and Messiaen's La Ville d'en Haut and Sept Hï-Kaï with Pierre Boulez for Deutsche Grammophon. Her performance of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Boston Pops was videotaped for national telecast and rebroadcast on PBS several times. Ms. Jones, along with Cleveland Orchestra colleagues Richard Weiss, Maximilian Dimoff and Donald Miller, recently released a CD of Claude Bolling's Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio. She was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1993.

Antonio Pompa-Baldi Piano, Born and raised in Foggia, Italy, Antonio Pompa-Baldi first came to the U.S. in 1999 to participate in the Cleveland International Piano Competition. He won the First Prize, and, while fulfilling all the engagements that came with it, he and his wife, Italian pianist Emanuela Friscioni, decided to make Cleveland their home. A top prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition of Paris, France, Antonio Pompa-Baldi also won a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, as well as the Award for the Best Performance of a New Work. Mr. Pompa-Baldi has toured extensively in four continents, bringing his assured touch on the keyboard to some of the world's major concert venues including Cleveland's Severance Hall, Milan's Sala Verdi, Naples' Teatro Diana, New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Boston's Symphony Hall, and Paris' Salle Cortot, Salle Gaveau, Salle Pleyel, Theatre des Champs-Elysees and Théâtre du Châtelet. Mr. Pompa-Baldi's recent engagements include a triumphant debut in Beijing , China : after a recital in the Forbidden City Concert Hall, and Master Classes at the China National Conservatory, he was named Honorary Guest Professor of that Institution; a highly acclaimed recital in London, England, and a performance with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in Kiev. Mr. Pompa-Baldi also made orchestral and solo debuts at Carnegie Hall, respectively in Isaac Stern Auditorium and Zankel Hall, as well as appearances with the Houston Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker (in Tokyo, Japan), Colorado Symphony, North Carolina, Peoria, and Duluth Symphony Orchestras, Rochester Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia (New Zealand), Kansas City Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Cleveland Pops, National Orchestra of Santo Domingo, Symphony of the Americas (Ft. Lauderdale) and Canton Symphony. He also performed recitals in cities such as Seoul, Paris (Chopin Festival), Chicago, Ravinia, Houston (Texas Music Festival), Portland (OR), Sacramento, Fort Worth (Cliburn Series), Salt Lake City (Assembly Hall) and Duszniki Zdroj, Poland (Chopin Festival). Antonio Pompa-Baldi has collaborated with leading conductors including Hans Graf, James Conlon, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Keith Lockhart, Christopher Seaman, Fabio Mechetti, Daniel Hege, Louis Lane, Pascal Rophe' and Stefan Sanderling, appearing with the Boston Pops, the Pacific Symphony, the Orchestre Philarmonique de Metz (France), the Orchestre National de Paris-Radio France, as well as the Symphony Orchestras of Fort Worth, Syracuse, Columbus, Charleston, Southwest Florida and Spokane. Other notable recital engagements include Bologna, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Hartford, Miami and San Juan. A passionate chamber musician, Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a frequent guest at events like the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, the Music in the Mountains Festival (Durango, CO), and the Fort Worth Chamber Music Society Series among others, collaborating with such ensembles as the Avalon String Quartet, the Takacs String Quartet and distinguished colleagues including violinist Elmar Oliveira. Fulfilling this summer's engagements, Mr. Pompa-Baldi will serve as President of the Jury for the International Russian Music Piano Competition in San Jose, CA, play recitals in England and Spain, as well as conduct his annual 10-day international workshop at the Napolinova Academy in Napoli, Italy in July. Mr. Pompa-Baldi's recordings include an all-Brahms disc (Azica), a live and unedited recital from his award-winning Cliburn Competition performances (Harmonia Mundi), and the Josef Rheinberger piano sonatas for Centaur Records. He recently completed the 11-album recording of Edward Grieg's entire output for piano and chamber music, also for Centaur Records. Soon-to-be released is an all-Rachmaninoff album. Mr. Pompa-Baldi has been seen and heard many times on French National Television, Radio-France, Ukrainian National television, Cleveland's WCLV, Boston's WGBH, and National Public Radio's "Performance Today", and appeared in the PBS documentary on the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition "Playing on the Edge" which premiered in October 2001 in USA and Canada. Mr. Pompa-Baldi appeared again on PBS in the documentary "Concerto", featuring his performance of Prokofiev's Concerto No. 3 with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and James Conlon. This performance was also seen on French National Television in May, 2003, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Prokofiev's death, as well as throughout Europe.Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a Steinway Artist. He serves as Distinguished Professor of Piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and gives master-classes around the world, both in conjunction with his performing engagements, and at summer festivals including Piano Fest in the Hamptons, TCU-Cliburn Institute, Southeastern Piano Festival (University of South Carolina School of Music), Paisiello Academy (Lucera, Italy), and Napolinova Academy (Naples, Italy). Mr. Pompa-Baldi is often invited to judge international piano competitions. He lives in Shaker Heights with his wife, Emanuela, and their daughter, Eleanor. E-mail Website

Olga Radosavljevich Piano, received a Bachelor of Music degree, Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from CIM. The Olga Radosavljevich Preparatory Scholarship in Piano was established at CIM in 2000. She was the recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award from The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. A piano student of Arthur Loesser, Victor Babin, and Vitya Vronsky at CIM and Danica Stanisavljevich at the Music Academy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, she was also a theory student of Verna Straub, Alvaretta West, and Marcel Dick. She has appeared in recital and with orchestras throughout Greater Cleveland; Tacoma, Washington; Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; and Yugoslavia; she has given chamber music performances with David Cerone, Brian Reagin, Ronald Gorevic, Katherine Gradojevich Manker and Brian Manker. She served as executive assistant for the ENCORE School for Strings from 1985 until 1988. She has been a member of the accompanying staff of the Meadowmount School of Music and director of CIM's Preparatory Piano Summer Program, Camp KLAVIER, since 1989. In 2005, she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from CIM. Ms. Radosavljevich was head of the CIM Preparatory piano department from 1985-2004. She was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1960. E-mail

Sean Schulze Chair, Preparatory Piano Department, teaches piano pedagogy to conservatory graduate and undergraduate students. After receiving his early training in South Africa where he studied with two of that country's most renowned pedagogues, Moira Birks and Isabella Stengel, he was invited to pursue a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Arizona on full scholarship where he studied with Nicholas Zumbro (a student of the famed Rosina Lhévinne). He undertook further studies with Brazilian pianist Caio Pagano and has performed in masterclasses for many leading pianists and pedagogues including Yoheved Kaplinsky, Bela Siki, Nelita True, John Owings, Martin Canin, Tamás Ungár, and Joseph Banowetz. A prize-winner of several competitions, he has appeared as concerto soloist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, The Natal Philharmic Orchestra, The University of Arizona Symphony Orchestra, the Suburban Symphony Orchestra and the Eastern Arizona Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed as a solo recitalist and chamber musician throughout the U.S., South Africa, Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil and has collaborated with members of the Cleveland Orchestra and also with the Calder Quartet (quartet in residence at the Colburn School). In 1999, Schulze along with violinist Luca Ciarla won a residency award through Chamber Music America that resulted in performances throughout the Southwest United States and Mexico, including an appearance at the Alamos Arts Festival. In 2003 and 2006, he was invited to teach and perform as a guest artist at the University of Rio de Janeiro. A published scholar, Schulze's research on Beethoven's Fantasy for Piano, Op.77 appeared in the Beethoven Journal in 2004. He remains a noted teacher at the pre-college level, with multiple students appearing as concerto soloists and winning numerous awards throughout the Midwest. In 2008, Schulze founded and directed Summer Sonata, an intensive two-week program of lessons and master classes for pianists aged 10 to18 which takes place on the CIM campus. E-mail

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. E-mail

Margarita Shevchenko Piano, completed studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Vera Gornostaeva and received an Artist Diploma from CIM, studying with Sergei Babayan. She received first prize in the 1995 Cleveland International Piano Competition. She has been recitalist and soloist with orchestras in the U.S. and abroad, including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; Cape Town Symphony with JoAnn Faletta, conductor; and the Polish National Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra and Hamamatsu Symphony Orchestra. She has given performances at Alice Tully Hall, the Phillips Collection, and Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow. She has also won prizes in international competitions, including the 1990 Gottingen International Piano Competition (Germany), 1998 Rubinstein Piano Master Competition, Israel; and the 1994 UNISA International Piano Competition, South Africa. She has recorded four CDs and has participated in the Strasbourg Festival, Marienbad Chopin Festival and the Yokohama Festival. She was appointed to the CIM faculty in 2003. E-mail

Collaborative Piano Department

Anita Pontremoli Head, Collaborative Piano Department, received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from CIM. She completed special studies in piano literature and chamber music at Yale University College of Music and the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milano, Italy. She has performed with internationally renowned artists including Lynn Harrell, Arnold Steinhardt, Aaron Rosand and Dale Clevenger, as well as Cleveland Orchestra artists and gifted younger musicians entering outstanding careers. She is also the head of collaborative piano for the Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, Canada and held the same position at the ENCORE School for Strings. She employs results-oriented teaching methods, including collaborative and solo piano, as well as intensive coaching in chamber music and special studies in contemporary music and the works of women composers. She has had many successful students who have gone on to active careers in the U.S. and abroad. Her recordings include Impresiones Intimas, the first of a projected five CDs of the complete piano music of Federico Mompou (Centaur Records) and the Duo Pontremoli Sonatas by Amy Beach and Grazyna Bacewicz. She was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1977. E-mail

Elizabeth DeMio Collaborative Piano, received a Bachelor of Music degree from CIM and a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. Teachers have included Vitya Vronsky and Theodore Lettvin. She is well-known as a collaborative pianist, recitalist and soloist in the Cleveland area, and has appeared in more than 100 concerts annually with local aspiring musicians. She appears frequently with soloists such as Randolph Kelly, John Mack, John Clouser, Sungzhin Lee and has appeared in tours and given master classes in several cities in the U.S., Korea and Mexico. She performs often as a soloist with the Trinity Cathedral Chamber Orchestra, a group in Cleveland following the tradition of daytime concerts in the great cathedrals of London. She has performed 20 Mozart concerti and the five Beethoven concerti as well as Schumann, Mendelssohn, Ravel and others with the Trinity Cathedral Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist for the Orquesta Sinfonica de Veracruz and the Orquesta de la UNAM in Mexico, and can be heard as a recording artist on the Crystal and Azica labels, most recently with works by Samuel Adler and soon-to-be released CD with works by Bernard Garfield with John Clouser as soloist. She serves on the staff of the John Mack Oboe Camp has been a staff member of the ENCORE School for Strings. E-mail

Christine Hill Collaborative Piano, earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance from the Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music, where her principal teachers were Bela Siki and David Bar-Illan. As an undergraduate, Ms. Hill won the Van Cliburn Piano Scholarship at the Conservatory. She also completed doctoral studies in collaborative piano with Anne Epperson, Thomas Muraco and Gareth Morrell at CIM, where she earned the Rosa Lobe Memorial Award in Accompanying. Aside from her extensive schedule of solo appearances, Ms. Hill collaborates with members of many major symphony orchestras in chamber music performances. A faculty member of Cleveland State University since 1988, she has been a vocal coach/accompanist for CSU opera productions, and appears often on the faculty recital series. She has been a festival scholar at major music institutions, including those at Aspen, Colorado, the Eastern Music Festival, and the Art Song Festival in Cleveland. She has appeared as soloist with the Ashland Symphony, Cleveland Philharmonic, Heights Civic Orchestra, and the Cincinnati-College Conservatory and Cleveland State Orchestras.

Linda Jones Collaborative Piano, was previously the senior vocal coach for the opera department at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. A graduate of the University of Iowa, she has studied piano with John Simms, David Saperton and Martin Canin, as well as accompanying/coaching with Dalton Baldwin, Martin Isepp and Louise Sherman. Ms. Jones has extensive experience as coach, rehearsal pianist and assistant conductor with opera companies including Opera Theater of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Dallas Civic Opera, Washington Opera Society, and The Juilliard School. She has been heard in recital with Simon Estes, Lenus Carlson, Judith Christin, Jon Garrison, Dina Kuznetsova, Lester Lynch and Nicole Heaston. Her recordings include Ivana Themmen's Ode to Akhmatova with Jean Kraft. She has served as music director of the La Mama ETC Company in New York City. In Cleveland, Ms. Jones has worked with the Lyric Opera Cleveland Apprentice Program as coach, and with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus as pianist for master classes, mini-recitals and auditions. Since 1993 she has been affiliated with the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, where she is a vocal coach and has been the coordinator of the voice and vocal accompanying program under the directorship of Marilyn Horne. She was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1986. E-mail

Virginia Weckstrom Collaborative Piano, received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from the Western College for Women and a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. Her teachers have included Ruby Hamlin, Eleanore Vail, John Kirkpatrick, John Perry, Jacqueline Marcault and Lilian Kallir. She was director of chamber music and taught piano at the Residential College of the University of Michigan, and she has been on the artist faculty for the Aspen Music School and Festival for 27 summers. Active in both solo and chamber music performances, Ms. Weckstrom has been heard on National Public Radio with the Wall Street Chamber Players. She was pianist/harpsichordist with the New Haven Symphony and has performed with the Ann Arbor and Flint Symphony Orchestras in Michigan. Chamber music collaborations include many performances along the East Coast, in the Midwest and Colorado. Deeply committed to arts education, she served as chair of the piano department at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, Connecticut, and was a founder of the School for Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, creating successful educational programs and concert series at both institutions. A frequent adjudicator, she has presented lecture recitals and master classes throughout the Midwest, in Texas and Australia. She was appointed to the CIM faculty in 2003.

Organ Department

Todd Wilson Head, Organ Dept., is the organ curator of the Norton Memorial Organ at Severance Hall. He serves as head of the organ department at CIM. Mr. Wilson received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and also studied at the Eastman School of Music. He has won numerous competitions, including the Grand Prix de Chartres and Fort Wayne Competition. Mr. Wilson has performed in many major cities in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Harpsichord Department

Janina Kuzma Ceaser Head, Harpsichord Department, received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from CIM, studying with Doris Ornstein. She also studied with Janina Wysocka-Ochlewska, a student of Wanda Landowska, at the Krakow Conservatory in Poland. She was formerly the head of the keyboard department at the Cleveland Music School Settlement and keyboard coordinator at Cleveland State University. Ms. Ceaser has performed as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras and chamber ensembles in the U.S., Poland, and Germany. She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts and Ohio Arts Council grants for recording and touring. She was resident harpsichordist for the American Recorder Society's Midwest Workshops, and was recognized in the 7th edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers. A member of Pi Kappa Lambda, she was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1992.