
Repetition in Form
Discover how to create tableware by blending wheel throwing, slabs, and bisque mold-making techniques, mastering consistency and precision in every form.
June 8 – June 14, 2024
One week session
Student Performance
Saturday, June 14, 2025
William M. Lowman Concert Hall
@ 7:00 PM
18+
$2,340
$1,500
$60
$50
Intermediate to advanced level pianists (amateurs and professionals)
Enrollment is limited to 10 students.
Designed for the serious adult student with the desire to improve or refresh knowledge and performance skills, the Adult Piano Performance workshop will develop your piano performance skills at intermediate and advanced levels. Students will work with professional piano instructors who are also performing artists. Students will learn music theory and take private lessons and Master Classes, with plenty of time set aside for practice. The workshop will begin on Sunday afternoon, June 9th, with an orientation followed by a faculty recital and reception. Classes and lessons will begin on Monday, continuing throughout the week. Your experience will conclude with a student performance recital open to the public in the beautiful William M. Lowman Concert Hall; students will be expected to perform, but it is not required.
Idyllwild Arts Summer Program pays its respects to the late Dr. William Wellborn, his family, friends, and beloved students. Wellborn dedicated his time and love for teaching piano as an instructor in the Idyllwild Arts Adult Piano Performance summer program since 2017. He was loved by many, inspiring young artists and performers throughout his distinguished musical career. William Wellborn was an active performer, teacher, and lecturer, and has appeared throughout the US, Canada, Europe and South America. The recipient of a CAPMT Lifetime Achievement Award, an MTNA fellow, host to his own San Francisco based radio show “Piano Legacy”, founding president of the SF Bay Area Chapter of the American Liszt Society, Vice President of the SF Council of the Chopin Foundation, and faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1989, Wellborn leaves behind a lasting legacy far beyond the stage. To read more about Wellborn’s life and achievements, please visit his website at www.williamwellborn.com.
This year’s Adult Piano Performance Workshop is in honor of Dr. Douglas Ashcraft, who led this tremendous workshop for many years. We continue to offer this workshop in his honor. A special memorial concert will take place on Saturday, July 19, 2025, 7:30 p.m. We invite you to attend this workshop with his esteemed colleagues and also attend the memorial concert in July.
Antoinette K. Perry has appeared throughout the US, Europe and China as a soloist and chamber musician, collaborating with many of the world’s greatest artists. Distinguishing herself also as a pedagogue, Perry served for 12 years on the UCLA piano faculty before joining the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music in 1996. She frequently gives master classes and serves as an adjudicator. Former students are enjoying successful careers as performers and pedagogues throughout the US and Asia.
More details about Antoinette Perry can be read here: https://music.usc.edu/antoinette-perry/
Diane Hidy made her Carnegie Hall debut after completing her studies with John Perry and Leon Fleisher. She was the first woman to become a Fellow of the American Pianist Association. Diane attended Julliard and holds performance degrees from the University of Southern California and the Peabody Conservatory. She has more than 50 recordings of standard piano teaching repertoire used by students around the world. Her adult students have won many honors including First Prize in the Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists held in Warsaw. Diane lives and teaches in San Francisco.
The lab fee covers all equipment and studio use.
Students will be asked to submit a list of performance ready repertoire prior to arriving to campus. Please submit to adultprograms@idyllwildarts.org.
The program will begin on Sunday, June 8th, with a faculty performance followed by an all program orientation and student mixer, where you will have an opportunity to meet with your classmates, as well as meet students in our adult programs for the week.
Monday night will feature an opening reception at the Parks Exhibition Gallery, featuring work from our very own summer faculty!
Artist Talks will be held in the evenings on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. This is a wonderful opportunity to listen to our faculty instructors speak about their art.
The week will culminate with the Adult Piano student performance on Saturday, June 14th!
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