Fifty-fourth 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 7, 2009, 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 7th, 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, 2009. 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.

2008 KILGORE COLLEGE CONCERTO COMPETITION

“I did not foresee that my performance experience would help me in my medical career until my third year of medical school residency.
Many times fellow students and residents commented that I never seemed nervous and never let stressful situations change my demeanor.
The performance opportunities at Kilgore College were where I learned to smile and appear confi dent even in sometimes terrifying
situations.” -- Dr. Sunni Boren
“Playing in the Concerto Program was the most inspirational experience in my life. I learned that with discipline, confi dence, persistent practice,
and most importantly, to never give up, I can achieve anything that I set my mind to, no matter how impossible the goal.” -- Geneve Liu, Attorney
“The Concerto Program helped me to be able to handle stressful situations effectively and to react and adapt under pressure. This skill has no
limits in whatever career I pursue. These few moments on stage have been some of the most enjoyable times of my life.” -- Jessica Morris, SMU,
student of the 2000 Leeds International Piano Competition, Alessio Bax
Playing in the Kilgore College Concerto Program is an opportunity of a lifetime. As Head of Piano Instruction at Kilgore College, I want to
make this unique performance available to all dedicated musicians. Auditions to participate in the 2009 program will be for those students that
have been selected as recitalists in both the 2008 Bach Festival and the 2008 David Karp Festival. Any concerto by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, or
Beethoven is acceptable. Auditions will be March 7, at 1:00 p.m. in Room 201 in the Technology Vocational Building.
Each student entering the competition should send the following information on a 3x5 index card: name, age, telephone number, teacher, and name of composition. A non-refundable
entry fee of $20 and a self-addressed, stamped envelope must accompany the index card. Failure to send in an index card for the student will result in disqualifi cation of that student.
Entries must be postmarked no later than February 20, 2009. Late applications will not be accepted. Checks should be made payable to Kilgore College Piano Club.
Inquiries and entries should be sent to Sandra Siler, Department of Music, Kilgore College, 1100 Broadway, Kilgore, Texas, 75662-3204. Phone: 903-983-8120.

2009 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 2009 Festival is scheduled for auditions from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 4, 2009, 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 21, 2009. 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 CHU-FANG HUANG

Chinese pianist Chu-Fang Huang’s extensive orchestral and recital appearances throughout the U.S. and abroad have elicited enthusiastic responses
from audiences and critics alike, leading The Birmingham News to declare, “Clarity, poise, lucid phrasing and dead-on technique were in
abundance at the electrically charged recital.” Ms. Huang’s busy 2007-2008 season includes concerto performances with the Springfi eld (MO)
Symphony Orchestra, Flagstaff (AZ) Symphony Orchestra, Florida West Coast Symphony, Fargo-Moorhead (ND) Symphony Orchestra, Boise
Philharmonic, and Bakersfi eld (CA) Symphony Orchestra. She gives recitals throughout the U.S., including performances at the Buffalo Chamber
Music Society, The Embassy Series (DC), Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts (CA), University of Georgia, Western Michigan University,
and at the Houghton Library of Harvard University. Ms. Huang will also be featured in a recital at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on the Young Concert Artists
Series.
As First Prize winner of the 2005 Cleveland International Piano Competition and a fi nalist in the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition in Texas in 2005, Ms. Huang has made concert appearances throughout the U.S. She will record a CD for the Naxos label as part
of her Cleveland Competition prize. She won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was also awarded the Paul A. Fish
Memorial Prize, the Slomovic Orchestra Soloist Prize, the Embassy Series Prize, the Lied Center of Kansas Prize, the Mortimer Levitt Piano
Chair of YCA, and the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women Artists.
Ms. Huang made her Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall in November 2005. She has given recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in New York, in Chicago, Cleveland,
Philadelphia, Fort Worth, and Palm Beach. In Europe, she has been re-engaged three times at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and twice at the Klavier Festival in Germany. She
has also performed at the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the Beijing Zhong-shang Concert Hall and Liao-ning Grand Opera House in China.
She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Claude Frank, and her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, as a
student of Robert McDonald. She is currently pursuing postgraduate studies at Juilliard.
On Thursday, April 9, 2009, Ms. Huang will be conducting a Piano Master Class at Kilgore College from 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center, Room 103
(Choir Room). This Master Class will feature the Kilgore College piano students as well as two East Texas area piano students. Tryouts will be held for one junior high student
and one high school student to be featured on the Master Class program. These tryouts will be held on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 201 of the TV Bldg.
The high school student chosen for the Master Class will be awarded a partial piano scholarship to Kilgore College. 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 will be featured at the 2008 Music Teacher’s National Convention held in Atlanta, Georgia, where they will premier several of their original works.
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 were most recently featured on
KLTV’s “Changing our World” with Joan Hallmark.