MTAC Santa Clara Branch
April 2010 Program
Hans Boepple: Musical
Imagination
Can our attraction to a
dazzling Schubert modulation or a great Gershwin tune really be explained? Can
musical beauty and meaning be proven or even analyzed? Can they be taught?
Music requires the individual personality and imagination to create individual
meaning. Let's share our thoughts and experiences in a discussion about
musical imagination: what it is, how it works, and how we can cultivate it in
our students.
Hans
Boepple A featured soloist with distinguished orchestras since his debut with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at age 10 and a collaborator with conductors
of international reputation, Hans Boepple is a
frequent guest artist on university and civic concert series across the
With a solo recital career of over forty years, Hans Boepple
is an honored member of the Steinway Piano International Artist Roster.
Both National Public Radio and Voice of America have recorded and broadcast his
live performances. Hans Boepple recorded the complete
Beethoven Bagatelles for Orion Master Recordings and his three recent
recordings for the Kjos Music Company are now part of
their Master Composer Collection of Piano Literature. Mr. Boepple
holds both a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music (Piano Performance) and
Performer’s Certificate from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (
A former full-time member of the piano faculty at the IU School of Music (1974-78), Boepple is a tenured, full Professor of Music at Santa Clara University (CA).
He joined the SCU faculty in 1978 to teach much of the academic curriculum required for students seeking the Bachelor of Arts in Music degree. He served as chair of the department of music from 1995-2007. An important component to his work is to mentor others on topics related to teaching young musicians. In demand as an adjudicator, lecturer, and master teacher, Mr. Boepple continues to balance demanding performance activities with those of a dedicated and successful teacher. His students have earned more than 150 state, national, and international awards.
His acclaimed reputation as musician and master teacher extend further
toward developing young artists at California Summer Music, a chamber music
camp founded & directed by cellist Irene Sharp. A frequent master teacher
at the World Piano Pedagogy Conferences, he has been guest speaker at the
Portland Piano Festival (
Date Time: Wednesday,
April , 14th 2010, 10am
Place:
For questions or
information, please contact Carol Liu at
408-472-3725 or
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