Fifty-fifth Annual
KILGORE COLLEGE BACH PIANO FESTIVAL

The Kilgore College Bach Festival is held annually to offer area piano students the opportunity for formal adjudication of an original composition by J.S. Bach. The 2009 Festival will be Saturday, March 6, 2010, on the Kilgore College campus. Auditions will be from 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., Saturday, in the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Building. Outstanding students will be chosen to perform on the Bach Festival Performers’ Concert at
7:00 p.m., Saturday, March 6th, in the Van Cliburn Auditorium. Winners will be posted Saturday afternoon. It is the responsibility of the student or teacher to check the posting of performers.
Any original composition, excluding concerti by J.S. Bach is acceptable for the Festival. Music must be memorized. Each student should bring an original copy of the music for the judge. Xeroxed music will not be allowed. Participants will receive a written critique and a certifi cate of participation. Trophies will be awarded to those selected to play on Saturday’s concert.
Each student entering the Festival should send the following information on a 3 x 5 index card: name, age, telephone number, teacher, and name of composition. A non-refundable entry fee of $15 and a self-addressed, stamped envelope must accompany the index card. Failure to send in an index card for each student will result in disqualifi cation of that student. Entries must be postmarked no later than February 20, 2010. Late applications will not be accepted. Checks should be made payable to Kilgore College Piano Club. Audition times will be sent by mail to each teacher.
Inquiries and entries should be sent to Sandra Siler, Department of Music, Kilgore College, 1100 Broadway, Kilgore, Texas, 75662-3204. Phone: 903-983-8120.

2010 DAVID KARP PIANO FESTIVAL

The David Karp Piano Festival is hosted each year by Kilgore College. It is an opportunity for all area piano students to prepare and perform for formal adjudication. The 2010 Festival is scheduled for auditions from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 10, 2010, in the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center. Selected students will perform in a recital at 2:00 p. m. in the Van Cliburn Auditorium.
David Karp, nationally known pianist, composer, educator, lecturer, and author, holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Colorado. Dr. Karp is professor of music and director of the National Piano Teachers Institute at the Meadows School of the Arts. He teaches courses at Southern Methodist University in piano performance, composition, theory and aural skills, improvisation, and class piano techniques for the college teacher. His former students are now professionally engaged on college campuses throughout the United States.
He has performed, lectured, and conducted workshops and seminars at many colleges and universities from Alaska to New Hampshire and as far away as Taiwan. In 1993, Dr. Karp was honored with the establishment of the David Karp Piano Festival, an annual event held at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas, in which over two hundred students perform and are judged on Karp compositions. When not teaching, Dr. Karp enjoys spending time at his cottage in Maine, reading books, listening to music and playing tennis. Dr. and Mrs. Karp have three married children and six grandchildren.
A list of selected repertoire for the Festival may be found at Mundt Music in Longview or Tyler. Students may enter
in only one solo category: Divisions Primer, I, II, III. Soloists may also enter in the Duet Division IV. Required pieces will be performed from memory (excluding duets). An original copy of the music must be provided for the judge. Xeroxed music will not be allowed. Each student will receive an adjudication sheet with a rating and a ribbon. Preliminary judges will select fi nalists from each division who will perform in a recital on Saturday afternoon, in the Van Cliburn Auditorium. At the recital, Dr. Karp will award trophies to fi rst, second, and third place winners in each division. He will be available to autograph music after the recital.
Each student entering the Festival must send the following information on a 3 x 5 index card: name, age, telephone number, teacher’s name and mailing address, division entering, and name of composition. A non-refundable $15 entry fee and a self-addressed, stamped envelope must accompany each index card. Failure to send in an index card for each student will result in disqualifi cation of that student. Entries must be postmarked no later than March 26, 2010. Late applications will not be accepted. Checks should be made payable to: Kilgore College Piano Club. Inquiries and entries should be addressed to Sandra Siler, Department of Music, Kilgore College, 1100 Broadway, Kilgore, Texas, 75662-3204.
Phone: 903-983-8120.

MASTER CLASS WITH AVGUSTE ANTONOV

Born in 1978 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Avguste Antonov began studying piano at the age of 5. In 1989, Avguste joined his mother and stepfather in France where he studied at the prestigious private school Ecole Normale de Paris (1989-1990) and at the Conservatoire Nationale de Region de Bordeaux (1990-1999). His teachers in France include Professor Alain Motard and Professor Herve N'Kaoua.
Following his stay in Bordeaux, Mr. Antonov followed his parents to the United States. Avguste has studied at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (1999-2000) under the guidance of Professor Robert Weirich and Professor Stanislav Ioudenitch (2001 co-winner of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition). Then Avguste joined the University of Kansas (2000- 2005) where he studied under Professor Jack Winerock and in May 2005, Avguste obtained the Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Kansas. In 2006, Mr. Antonov moved to Texas, and between 2006-2008, he attended the prestigious Texas Christian University for the Master of Music in Piano Performance under the direction of Professor Tamas Ungar.
Avguste Antonov has performed extensively with the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble, University of Kansas Symphony and Symphonic Choir and the Texas Christian University Wind Symphony. Performance venues include the Music Education National Convention with the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble and the College Band Directors National Association with the Texas Christian University Wind Symphony.
As a soloist, Mr. Antonov has performed Liszt's 2nd Piano Concerto with the University of Kansas Symphony, the
Schumann Piano Concerto with the Kansas City Medical Arts Symphony and Messiaen's "Colors of the Celestial City" with the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble. He has also performed recitals in Bordeaux, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri.
In addition to classical performances, Avguste Antonov is a dedicated performer of 20th and 21st century music.
Mr. Antonov has worked with composers such as Carter Pann, John Mackey, Raina Murnak, John Arrigo-Nelson and many others.
Mr. Antonov has been featured in recordings for Music For Learning (solo) and Naxos (with the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble) and his performances can also be heard on the web thanks to Playlist.com, Beemp3.com and other digital music websites.
Avguste Antonov is a lifetime member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, member of the College Music Society and the Rachmaninoff Society. He is also a featured pianist for the Piano Society (http://www.pianosociety.com)

We marvel as Antonov’s fi ngers and hands fl y across the keyboard, at times becoming a virtual blur, striking each note correctly and for the proper duration. We look at the face of the musician and we realize that Mr. Antonov has reached the point that all musicians strive for, where he is no longer just playing the music, but rather enlivened the music! The point where his heart and soul meld with his instrument and music and have become the heart and soul of both! Mr. Antonov has shown his ability to exercise total control over both his instrument and the music he has chosen to play, he has become the master of both! Mr. Antonov renders both of these pieces superbly, Bravo, Mr. Antonov, for a job well done!

William Dwyer - Gulf Coast Music (Aug 24, 2009) On Friday, March 5, 2010, Mr. Antonov will be conducting a Piano Master Class at Kilgore College from 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in the Technology Vocational Building, Room 201 (Choir Room). This Master Class will feature the Kilgore College piano students. It is open for all area piano students and teachers to observe and enjoy. For more information, contact Sandra Siler, Head of Piano Instruction at Kilgore College: 903-983-8120.

PERFORMING ENSEMBLES AT KILGORE COLLEGE

The Kilgore College Piano Ensemble is comprised of freshman and sophomore gifted pianists from all over the world! The group performs a vast variety of music ranging from traditional orchestral work to contemporary sounds of today. The Ensemble has presented sessions at the Music Teacher's National Conventions in Salt Lake City, Utah; Seattle, Washington; and Austin, Texas. They have performed with renowned composers Dennis Mauricio, Dr. Earnest Boamah, Susan Ogilvy and Mannhiem Steamroller's Jackson Berkey. The Red Hat Keyboard Supremes are a group of eight talented musicians that perform on keyboards capable of producing over 600 different sounds. The group began in 1998 when Sandra Siler, Head of Piano Instruction at Kilgore College, offered area piano teachers the opportunity to come together weekly to play piano ensemble music. Members have come and gone, but after several successful public performances, Siler had to begin a waiting list. When the group became members of the Red Hat Society, they decided to call themselves “Supremes” because like the Supreme Court--they are members for life!

Decked out in their purple dresses and red hats the “Supremes” have performed for the National Piano Teacher’s Institute at SMU, Dallas; the Texas Music Teacher’s State Convention, Corpus Christi; as well as many Red Hat Conventions throughout the Ark-la-tex. They have been featured on KLTV’s “Changing our World” with Joan Hallmark.