HOMESKRZYPEK
 

 

Nevada City  California  USA
 

    

 

Nevada City - Broad Street in 1990.

 

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BEGINNING OF THE GCPI : FIRST THREE COURSES.   Group of Gold Country Piano Institute's students and instructors in the Miners' Foundry Hall in Nevada City. On the left: the first course in 2000.; in the middle - the second course in 2001; on the right - the third in 2002. 

 
the 6th COURSE will take place JUNE 12-24, 2005
 
 
ALLAN HALEY (on the right) - distinguished Nevada City lawyer, music connoisseur and Gold Country Piano Institute's President in his own  concert hall with Pawel Skrzypek in 1991. CLICK PICTURE TO ENLARGE

The Gold Country Piano Institute in Nevada City, California was established by Pawel Skrzypek in November 1999 with a trial course of eight students. With that success, he taught the first “regular” course in May of 2000. The Canadian pianist and master instructor, Professor Lee Kum-Sing of Vancouver, B.C., joined the Institute in May  2002. In 2004, Professors Pawel Skrzypek, Lee Kum-Sing, and Emilio del Rosario will be teaching an estimated twenty students. Professor Czesław Stańczyk will join to deliver a lecture and teach a master class.

KIRBY SECHOVEC Nevada City Rotary Club member and  Skrzypek's partner in founding the Gold Country Piano Institute in 1999. GCPI Executive Director from the beginning of its existence untill June 2001. 

Prof. Lee Kum-Sing and P.Skrzypek in Polish village outside Warsaw in 1991 CLICK PICTURE TO ENLARGE

Andrea Fox at work during one of concerts of the 2nd Course in 2001. CLICK PICTURE TO ENLARGE

Paweł Skrzypek had been teaching and performing in Nevada City since 1990 during his concert tours of California. This small town in the  foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, a favorite of tourists 55 miles east of  Sacramento, was  in the center of 19th century "Gold Rush,” when people from around the world came to California to seek wealth in the yellow metal. People still come, but for the wealth of music, drama, and art to be found there. Its large and sophisticated concert audience and its supportive culture seemed to Professor Skrzypek to offer an American venue for developing the style of piano instruction that he had initiated in the modern piano workshops in Poland. The enthusiasm and work of three  Nevada City citizens - Allan Haley, Kirby Sechovec and  Andrea Fox made it possible.

The Warsaw Piano Workshop, and now the Gold Country Piano Institute, feature a unique teaching program. Each 

 JOHN BUSH Treasurer since 2001 and from January 2002 untill June 2004 - Gold Country Piano Institute Executive Director.

   ANDREA FOX Pianist and piano teacher, Member of the group founding the Institute. From the beginning untill 2002 - GCPI Secretary;  since January 2002 - Administrative Director .

New GROTRIAN concert grand - fabulous piano used by GCPI for lessons and public concerts at the "Miners' Foundry" in Nevada City. CLICK PICTURE TO ENLARGE

student chooses several pieces in his or her prepared repertoire to develop during the Institute. The instructors divide the chosen pieces of each student among themselves for work with the student, thus enabling a student and instructor to develop the interpretation of a particular piece together. In this way, students prepare their repertoires for  performance. Each student receives a lesson every day during the course.

The course is given every year during the second half of June after the conclusion of the academic year of most universities, colleges, and music schools. The students arrive from many parts of the world for the two-week course and reside in private homes that 
 

have good pianos for practicing. They make friends with their host families and with the other pianists. Lunch and dinner together provide students and instructors with  occasions for socializing and deep discussion. During the second week of lessons, participants perform works-in-progress at private concerts, and the Institute concludes with the Participants' Final Concert of the works they have developed with the Institute faculty.

 

American and Polish piano students  

 

of the "U.S.A.-Poland Young Pianists' Scholarship Exchange Program"

 

since 1999  ( updated )

 

( Gold Coutry Piano Institute, U.S.A. - Warsaw Piano Workshop, POLAND )

 

  Jacek Mysiński Ando Rie Huguenin   Maria Daroch Pauline Yang

Joanna Pociej

 

1999 - Poland

 2000 - U.S.A.   2000 - Poland 2001 - U.S.A.

2001 - Poland

 

  Frank Huang Agnieszka Przemyk   Miriam Drace  Aleksandra Bobrowska

Katarzyna Hajduk

 

2002 -  U.S.A.

   2002 - Poland   2003 - U.S.A.  2003 - Poland

2003 - Poland

    Participants have the opportunity to continue their studies through the Polish-American Scholarship Exchange Program offered by the  Gold Country Piano Institute in cooperation with the Warsaw Piano Workshop, which takes place annually in August.  Scholarships are offered to the two best and/or the most promising young pianists as follows: one to a pianist from the United States who participates in the Gold Country Piano Institute, and one to a pianist from Poland who participates in the Warsaw Piano Workshop. The scholarships cover the full tuition and board in the partner-course. In 1999 and 2000 the exchange was conducted by Paweł Skrzypek between the GCPI and the "Fermata" Workshop in Gdansk; in 2001 the exchange was arranged between the GCPI and the Warsaw Piano Workshop held at the Frederic Chopin State School of Music.

Winners of the Polish-American Exchange Scholarship in 2001:  Pauline Yang from New Jersey and Maria Daroch from Lodz, Poland at Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. List of scholarship-winners - see below. CLICK PICTURE TO ENLARGE

On the left - as an example: the GCPI Certificate given to Pauline Yang (U.S.A.) providing the scholarship for the 2001 Warsaw Piano Workshop in Poland. Every each year the  scholarship is awarded to the selected US participant of the GCPI (click to enlarge).
 
 

FIRST "STARS OF THE FUTURE" 2002/2003 : P.Yang and R.N.Kudo 
STARS OF THE FUTURE" was established by Pawel Skrzypek in 2001 in cooperation with Paul Elliott Cobbs, American conductor and Professor of Music at Central Washington University. This project provides the most promising US participants of the  Gold Country Piano Institute with the opportunity to perform as a soloist with either the Tacoma Youth Symphony or the Everett Symphony Orchestra. Pianist Pauline Yang performed Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto in Tacoma, Washington in 2002, and Rachel Naomi Kudo was scheduled to perform in Everett, Washington in 2003. The "Stars of the Future" series is a part of  the Institute's promotional program in conjunction with the  Patricia Alberti Performing Artists' Management, which offers one year of recital opportunities to the chosen US participant of the Gold Country Piano Institute. 
 
  Excursions to points of interest are provided for Students 
at the Gold Country Piano Institute during the course.
 

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In Reno, Nevada On Yuba River - Nevada City area

In San Francisco's China Town

 

In Sierra Nevada Mountains Monterey Bay - sailing 

Lake Tahoe - Nevada shore

 

On Sierra Nevada's snow in June Under cliffs of Brighton Beach 

Crab snack in Fisherman's Wharf

 

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In 2001 the Gold Country Piano Institute began to focus on performing and encouraging public appreciation of unique, unknown, and rarely performed pieces of piano literature. GCPI intends to edit and publish sheet music and to release CD recordings of such works (available on individual request). As our first examples GCPI presents the printed parts and CD recording of the chamber version of the Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto in F minor (piano and string quartet - on the right) and the CD with rare live recording of the Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto in G minor op.16 - on the left.   CLICK PICTURES TO ENLARGE

 

 

 More detailed information about the Institute - besides the US web site - can be obtained by contacting GCPI Secretary Andrea Fox at andnowmuze@sbcglobal.net or Artistic Director Paweł Skrzypek at skrzypek@ps.art.pl . On-line Application Form  - CLICK ON THE RIGHT

 
 

 

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