JUNIOR PIANO MASTER CLASS
Debra Grass, Convenor
"A new initiative for ORMTA, the Junior Piano Masterclass is an opportunity for students to perform and receive feedback from our Clinician. In a positive environment, students will learn skillfulness and musicality in their art form. Teachers, plan to attend to enrich your own teaching and consider sending students to strengthen their performance skills!"
Application Deadline: January 12 th , 2025
Saturday, February 8 th , 2025, 3:00 p.m. Loeb Building, Carleton University
Junior masterclass with Elaine Keillor and Steve Boudreau for students 13 and under, any level.
This year, we encourage teachers and their younger students to participate in a masterclass that will focus on trying something new. Explore a new composer, new genre, style, or perhaps a new skill like playing from a lead sheet, including improvisation, or tackling a duet with a new friend. Traditional sonatinas and minuets are very welcome, along with jazz, movie, Broadway, etc., any type of piano performance that teachers and their younger students would like to prepare.
The atmosphere will be casual. Parents and teachers are welcome. Non-participating, teachers are encouraged to audit.
Clinicians
Elaine Keillor, C.M., Distinguished Research Professor Emerita,
Carleton University, as a pianist and chamber musician has performed in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. She received the Associate (ARCT) piano performance degree from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) with all theory exams completed at age ten, a record for over six decades.
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To date30 CD performances have been released and has recently recorded background music of a Quebec TV series and the documentary, My Four Mothers. Critics have highly praised her recordings, live recitals - solo and chamber performances and those with orchestra.
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Awarded the Chappell Medal for outstanding Commonwealth
pianist (1958), she later became the first woman to earn a PhD. in musicology at the University of Toronto. She has received many awards for her teaching and research. Appointment to the Order of Canada (2016) was made based on her work regarding Canadian music and the musical traditions of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples. Keillor has authored eight books including John Weinzweig: The Radical Romantic of Canada (1994), Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity
(2006), Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America (2013) plus numerous essays and encyclopedia articles.
Steve Boudreau is an Ottawa-based pianist who specializes in jazz and popular music. He has performed and taught across North America and parts of Europe, including performances as a leader and a sideman at various jazz festivals, theatres and clubs.
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Upon completing an undergraduate music degree in piano performance at Carleton University in 2004, Steve pursued many opportunities in the music field, including a wide variety of vocal accompaniment, teaching both privately and as adjunct faculty at Carleton University. In 2008, he moved to Boston to pursue a Master's Degree in Jazz Piano at the prestigious New England Conservatory, where he studied with many of the leading names in jazz including Danilo Perez, Fred Hersch, Ran Blake, Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone and Cecil McBee, among others.
Since 2020, Steve has been busy composing, performing and recording original music; a 5-CD solo piano set recorded during the pandemic and the album Cherished Possessions with Montreal bassist Adrian Vedady and drummer Jim Doxas. David Reed of The Belleville Intelligencer wrote: “Boudreau’s playing is warm and his phrasing is smooth. Vedady and Doxas pulse like one finely-tuned engine. Every song is a highlight and the album deserves to be listened to in its entirety, with good headphones.”
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Other projects include Steve Boudreau plays Jerome Kern, a duo record with Adrian Vedady (2023), Nonlinear, a 2023 two-piano record of original music with Peter Hum, Preludes: The Music of George Gershwin, a 2017 trio record featuring bassist John Geggie and drummer Michel Delage, Open Arms, a solo album recorded in 2010, and two records of original music co-led by guitarist Garry Elliott, Pre-Dawn Skies and Opus 2. He is also a member of F8-Bit, an electric jazz group that plays energetic versions of classic video
game music regularly at House of Targ. Steve also plays frequently with Juno-award winning singer/songwriter Kellylee Evans, for her “Story & Song”, “Winter Song” and jazz-in-the-schools shows.
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Currently Steve keeps busy teaching a full studio of private students, as well as weekly online group classes that are open to the public. He lives in Ottawa's South Centrepointe neighbourhood and is married to pianist and music director Kellina Gehrels.
Junior Piano Masterclass
Junior Piano Master Class
Junior Piano Masterclass
JUNIOR PIANO MASTER CLASS
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