Medici Classics Productions

06/18/2019

06/09/2019

IKIF Masters Series Concerts at Merkin Hall

https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/series/international-keyboard-institute-festival/

05/05/2019

05/05/2019

04/07/2019

Classical music news - International Keyboard Institute and Festival. The application deadline for this year's New York-based event is 15 April 2019

Classical music news - International Keyboard Institute and Festival. The application deadline for this year's New York-based event is 15 April 2019

CD Spotlight. A Very Joyous Disc - Brahms arranged by Kenneth Woods impresses Alice McVeigh. '... this is an excellent performance representing a useful, joyful and even inspired addition to the orchestral repertoire.'

03/28/2019

Sign up for IKIF 2019 as a student or an auditor. Application deadline April 15. ikif.org
https://win2012s-1.gothamweb.net/ikif/ApplicationForm.aspx

03/28/2019

Tickets now on sale for six IKIF 2019 Masters Series concerts in Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center.
https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/series/international-keyboard-institute-festival/

03/24/2019

Opening night of IKIF 2019 in Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in New York on Sunday, July 14 at 8pm. Jerome Rose performs works of Chopin, Schumann and Brahms. Visit ikif.org for more Festival information.

For Tickets:
https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/international-keyboard-institute-and-festival-jerome-rose/

03/20/2019

Don't miss IKIF 2019 July 14-28 in New York City. Jerome Rose opening concert at Merkin Hall on Sunday, July 14 at 8pm.

03/01/2019

International Keyboard Institute & Festival ikif.org

03/01/2019

International Keyboard Institute & Festival
July 14-28, 2019 ikif.org
Apply here: https://win2012s-1.gothamweb.net/ikif/ApplicationForm.aspx

03/01/2019

IKIF 2019 ikif.org
Appy here: https://win2012s-1.gothamweb.net/ikif/ApplicationForm.aspx

02/27/2019

IKIF 2019 ikif.org
Appy here: https://win2012s-1.gothamweb.net/ikif/ApplicationForm.aspx

02/27/2019

International Keyboard Institute & Festival
July 14-28, 2019 ikif.org
Apply here: https://win2012s-1.gothamweb.net/ikif/ApplicationForm.aspx

02/27/2019

International Keyboard Institute & Festival ikif.org

02/08/2019

Apply now to IKIF 2019. See: ikif.org: To apply: https://win2012s-1.gothamweb.net/ikif/ApplicationForm.aspx

02/06/2019

Enjoyed a wonderful visit to Ravel's home outside of Paris in Montfort-l'Amaury, thanks to my colleague Akiko Ebi. I am seated at Ravel's piano looking out onto his garden. A portrait of his mother is above the piano.

02/06/2019

From International Piano Jan/Feb 2019 issue. Jerome Rose interviewed by Jeremy Nicholas. Please enjoy!

12/20/2018

10/22/2018

10/21/2018

Celebrate the birthday of Franz Liszt on October 22 with Jerome Rose Plays Liszt, Prix du Disque recordings.
For a complete catalogue, see http://jeromerose.com/Recordings.aspx

10/20/2018

04/22/2018

In 1999, Jerome Rose was not only starting the International Keyboard Institute & Festival, ikif.org but he was instrumental in changing the Fire Code of the City of New York.
Read about it: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tower-trap-fires_us_5ada1e0ae4b03c426dae2217

04/13/2018

IKIF 2018 Application deadline April 15. ikif.org

04/08/2018

The International Keyboard Institute & Festival is pleased to announce that $25,000 in Scholarship Awards will be given at the IKIF Competition this summer. The First Prize, offered by JMW Consultants, will be $10,000 and a concert on the Masters Series at the Festival in 2019. In Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Festival and the 80th Birthday of Founder/Director Jerome Rose, three additional prizes of $5,000 will be awarded, plus a concert for each winner on the Prestige Series at the Festival in 2019. Please see ikif.org to apply and participate in Masterclasses, Concerts, and the Competition.

03/19/2018

IKIF 2018 begins July 15 with the opening recital by Jerome Rose performing Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt! Visit ikif.org

02/25/2018

11/05/2017

Enjoy this excerpt of the overview of IKIF 2017 from the current issue (Nov/Dec) of the American Record Guide, written by James Harrington:

"Two Weeks of Annual Piano Heaven"

Rose gave the opening concert on a Sunday evening, as he has done each of the past seasons. He is present for every event over the next two weeks. Indefatigable even at 79, his gregarious personality coupled with a still impressive big romantic piano style and over 50 years as a teacher make it easy to understand his success with IKIF. I was reminded of learning a lot of Liszt repertoire back in the 1970s from his Vox Box recordings, and then attending his all-Liszt recital back in 1986 on Liszt’s 175th birthday at Alice Tully Hall. This year he played Beethoven’s Sonata No. 18, Schumann’s Fantasy Pieces Op. 12, and Liszt’s Sonata—a demanding program for someone half his age. I remember Liszt’s Sonata as the high point of his recital 31 years ago, as it was again in July. There is so much in this piece that can distract the pianist’s overall conception, but Rose is a master with Liszt’s music, and I heard all the motivic transformations clearly. Yet the work moved right along, keeping my attention so well that all of a sudden we were at the fugue, then the presto octaves, and then the final heavenly pages. He offered no encore; only his heartfelt thanks to the audience for their attendance and his hope that they would return all through the festival.

For the complete article, please go to:
http://www.jeromerose.com/ReviewDetail.aspx?id=90

07/05/2017

JEROME ROSE Online Lecture: A libretto to the Liszt Sonata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQd1n5oKiE8

Liszt expert Jerome Rose plays through the iconic B Minor Sonata of Franz Liszt explaining its underlying theme, its motifs, construction of the work and the development of the melodies from the beginning till the end. A must-see lecture for all pianists and music lovers.

Jerome Rose performs the Liszt Sonata at the International Keyboard Institute & Festival on Sunday, July 16 at 8pm. The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, New York. East 68th Street between Park and Lexington.
Tickets: 212-772-4448 or visit www.hunter.cuny.edu/kayeplayhouse or ikif.org

06/28/2017

IKIF 2017 at Hunter College with concerts in THE KAYE PLAYHOUSE from July 16-29. See Jerome Rose in works of Beethoven, Schumann, and Liszt at 8pm on Sunday, July 16. www.ikif.org

04/08/2017

IKIF 2017 Masters Series tickets on sale April 10. ikif.org

03/23/2017

Jerome Rose Master Classes in Summer 2017

July: IKIF 2017 at Hunter College in NYC ikif.org
August: Villa Medici-Giulini in Italy
http://www.villamedici-giulini.it/corsi/rose/rose-eng.htm

02/23/2017

IKIF 2017 at Hunter College in New York City. Please visit ikif.org

02/13/2017

Visit us at ikif.org for information on being a participant or auditor in IKIF 2017. Applications are due April 15. Please spread the word and share!

01/30/2017

Jerome Rose returns to the Conservatoire de Paris in December 2017.

12/07/2016

To enroll in the Jerome Rose Masterclasses in Brescia, Italy on January 12, 13 and 14, 2017 see info below. He is looking forward to seeing many students and friends!
For information and application: www.talentmusicmasters.it

12/02/2016

Save the dates: IKIF 2017 at Hunter College, New York, July 16-30. Jerome Rose opening concert Sunday, July 16 at 8pm in The Kaye Playhouse.

11/28/2016

Jerome Rose will be giving Masterclasses in Brescia, Italy on January 12, 13 and 14, 2017 for "Talent Music Master Courses".
For information and application: www.talentmusicmasters.it

(Photo: Jerome Rose by the Tchaikovsky statue in front of the Moscow Conservatory after his recent masterclasses there.)

11/18/2016

Jerome Rose will be giving Masterclasses at the Paris Conservatory and in Brescia, Terni and Castelfranco, Italy in January 2017.

09/06/2016

Jerome Rose is available for concerts and classes. For more information please see: jeromerose.com

07/09/2016

Medici Classics Productions's cover photo

07/09/2016

Medici Classics Productions's cover photo

04/09/2016

Enjoy this article from Pianist (UK) Magazine's April/May issue:

BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG FESTIVAL

Both participants and listeners will find something special at New
York City's irrepressible and irreplaceable International Keyboard
Institute and Festival, as founder Jerome Rose tells Inge Kjemtrup.

Talk to Jerome Rose, pianist and founder of the
International Keyboard Institute and Festival, and he
will give it to you straight: 'The festival is in its 18th
year, and we're a staple of New York City musical life.'
This might sound like brash New Yorker attitude,
but he's probably right: critics and audiences seem to
have taken this two-week long festival of all things
piano to their hearts. The International Keyboard
Institute and Festival (IKIF) is a 'perennial favorite
among piano aficionados' said the New York Times,
while the New Yorker pointed up the IKIF's
'tantalizingly, innovative and robust concert programs
from a variety of international virtuosos, up-and-comers,
and local heroes.'

Indeed, by all reports, a large part of the appeal
of the IKIF is this annual coming together of
established performers, the young-and-up-and-coming
(several recent competition winners, such as
George Li, who was a laureate in the Tchaikovsky,
will take part this year), amateurs and general piano
nuts. The variety of ages helps too, ranging from 12
to 80, says festival director Julie Kedersha.

It's Kedersha's challenging job to keep tabs on the
125 participants and 20-30 teaching staff, who
collectively take over the music department of New
York City's Hunter College every July. Her task must
be made harder by what Rose calls the 'open door
policy' of the IKIF . 'You're not assigned to any
teacher, you can study with anyone,' he explains.
'You can walk in and out of a room if you want.'
Though presumably not in the middle of your lesson.

Rose claims his programming comes from telling
the guest artists, 'play better than you did at Carnegie
Hall and play whatever you want', an approach that
does lead to some diversity — and some playfulness.
Rose persuaded concert pianist Dmitry Rachmanov
to present a programme about Sergei Rachmaninov
(no relation) and he put together an orchestral
ensemble for the festival and dubbed it the Jäger
Meisters Chamber Orchestra ('Jäger' means 'hunter'
in German). I'll drink to that.

More seriously though, Rose is keen to fête the
great keyboard masters of the past and present,
including those whose careers have, perhaps, deserved
more attention. This year the IKIF features the
French pianist Philippe Entremont, 75 years and
basking in the light of a long career of French music
and Chopin. Rose also has tributes to past keyboard
masters such as Paderewski and Gilels.

Entremont's recital (23 July) will be heavy on
Chopin and French works, including Ravel's Sonatine
and 'Alborada del gracioso' from Miroirs. Geoffrey
Burleson, who is recording Saint-Saens's piano music
for Naxos offers a diverse recital with music by that
composer. Other confirmed recitals so far are from
Stanislav Khristenko, Jeffrey Swann and Magdalena
Baczewska, with Rose himself on the opening-night spot.

Rose has had a distinguished teaching and
performing career (as a youngster in California he
studied with Adolph Baller, mainly recalled now as
Menuhin's pianist). He was a young man when the
idea of the festival came to him: ‘When I was 17
going on 18, I had a transformative experience going
to Marlboro [the famous Vermont chamber music
festival], played with Casals and Sascha Schneider,
and I wanted to create a similar thing in the piano
world.’ Rose, it seems, is in his element with IKIF.

If the concerts and classes aren't enough, Rose
adds, there are also the 'beautiful acoustics' of the
Hunter College concert hall, the many available
practice rooms, the Yamahas and Bösendorfers on
tap, and the interesting lectures. By the end of my
phone call with Rose, I'm nearly ready to reserve my
place on his big city, big passion piano fest.

The New York International Keyboard Institute and
Festival runs 17-31 July. To apply as a participant or to
attend concerts and events, go to www.ikif.org.

Photo credit: Jim Kedersha

03/31/2016

IKIF 2016 July 17-31 at Hunter College in New York City. Tickets go on sale April 1. Go to ikif.org for info.

03/16/2016

Enjoyed playing this beautiful Yamaha CFX at Yamaha Italy.