Plenary Session
 A Conversation With Ann ScheinMonday, March 23, 9:15–10:15 a.m. Come hear pianist Ann Schein share about her studies with famed pianist and teacher Arthur Rubinstein during this session. Considered one of the premier Chopin pianists of our time, Ann Schein made her debut in Mexico City in 1957 and has since performed with major orchestras at elite concert halls all over the world. Schein was on the Peabody Conservatory faculty from 1980 to 2001 and was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award at the school in 2012. Since 1984, she has been an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School. She has also served on the faculty of Indiana University and on the jury of the Irving S. Gilmore Keyboard Festival. Schein was recently featured in a book by Washington Post music critic Cecelia Hopkins Porter entitled Five Lives In Music: Women Performers, Composers and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present. She continues to give lectures and master classes and has recently performed in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Brazil and throughout the United States. |