The Romanian Cultural Institute together with Carola Grindea's family is proud to invite you to join us for
TRIBUTE TO CAROLA GRINDEA (1914-2009) A Musical Celebration in Memory of a Great Musician
Special Guests: Serban Lupu - violin Lori Wallfisch - piano Irina Botan - piano David Campbell - clarinet Paul Brunner - cello Halldor Haraldsson - European Piano Teacher Association President (Iceland) Diane Andersen - European Piano Teacher Association President (Belgium) Nancy Lee Harper - European Piano Teacher Association President (Portugal) Mishka Momen - piano
The programme includes works by Enescu, Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Prokofiev, Chopin, Haydn and Ravel.
The event is organized by the family of Carola Grindea - Nadia, Rachel, David and Ben Lasserson and Josh, Raphael and Beksy Rossiter - and the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.
Carola Grindea was a world famous musician and piano teacher. Born Carola Rabinovici in Piatra Neamt and educated at the Bucharest Conservatory, she arrived in England with her husband, the literary editor Miron Grindea, in 1939, two days before the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1968 she joined the Guildhall School of Music, London, as a piano professor, where she also started a lecture series, the Techniques of Piano Teaching, at a time when the study of piano pedagogy was almost non-existent in the UK. As she recalled years later: "Piano teaching then was very much the Cinderella of the profession, considered beneath the dignity and aspirations of young performers". She determined to remedy the situation. Inspired by the profusion of piano teachers' groups in the US and by the success of the European String Teachers' Association, founded by Yehudi Menuhin and Max Rostal, she set about building a base of support. Eminent musicians - Nadia Boulanger, John Ogdon, Paul Badura-Skoda, Louis Kentner, Rosalyn Tureck, Vlado Perlemuter - lent their names and donated their services, and European Piano Teacher Association (EPTA) is today one of the modern monuments of European culture, embracing 40 countries, with affiliates in Japan, Hong Kong, Latin America, Canada and the US. Its aims are to bring teachers out of isolation, to share ideas, to develop not just as teachers but as musicians, and to assume a role in a world where piano pedagogy has become a recognized academic discipline. In the same time, Carola Grindea founded the International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance and the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe.
When: Monday, 18 October 2010, 7-9 pm;
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute, London
Admission is free. Please reserve your seats at T: 020 7752 0134, E: office@icr-london.co.uk.
