E-Mail: Peter.Takacs@oberlin.edu Office: Bibbins 331 Office Phone: 440/775-8245 Address: 77 W. College St. Oberlin, OH 44074 Visit also: • St.Petersburg String Quartet and Peter Takács Perform in Faculty Recital with Live Broadcast on WCLV • Peter Takács to Perform GRAND FINALE; Takács To be Featured on WCPN's "Around Noon" (FM 90.3) with host Dee Perry • Peter Takács' Beethoven Cycle Continues with Concert VI • Professor Peter Takács to Perform Concert V • Peter Takács Performs Concert IV of Beethoven Cycle • The Complete Concert Schedule • "The Mind of Beethoven," by Peter Takács • Oberlin College Community Strings Concert Dec. 7 Features Pianist Peter Takács and the Black River Singers Back to: Keyboard Studies - Piano		Peter Takács Professor of Piano Education: B.M. with honors, Northwestern University, 1968; M.M., University of Illinois, 1969; doctoral studies, Peabody Conservatory. Study with Howard Karp and Leon Fleisher. Tanglewood Piano Fellowship, 1976; Conductors Seminar, 1989. Prizes and Awards: First prize, University of Maryland International Piano Competition, 1973; winner, North Carolina Symphony Competition, 1973; Rhode Island International Mater Pianist Competition, 1974; special award, Rockefeller American Music Competition, 1982; winner, La Gesse Foundation Recital Prize, 1983; National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant, 1984. Performances: Numerous solo recitals, chamber music performances, and concerto appearances with major orchestras throughout the U.S. and abroad, including venues in Toulouse, France; Düsseldorf and Mainz, Germany; Helsingborg, Sweden; Tel Aviv, Israel; Kecskemét and Szeged, Hungary; Schlern, Italy; Caracas, Venezuela; and Beijing, China. Featured recitalist, MTNA National Convention (1978, 1996), Tel Aviv Art Museum (2007); University of California, Irvine (all-Beethoven solo recital, 2007). Frequent appearances at chamber music and summer festivals in the U.S. and abroad, including those in Helsingborg, Sweden; Schlern, Italy; Tel Hai, Israel; Williamstown, Massachusetts, Santa Barbara, California, and the Charleston Chamber Music Fest. Frequent master classes throughout the U.S. Master Classes, Lectures, and Juries: Chair of the classical music panel, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (Miami, Florida) Guest lecturer, MTNA National Convention (Toronto); World Piano Pedagogy Conference (Las Vegas, Nevada) Music Institute for Piano Pedagogy (St. Thomas, Minnesota) Guest faculty, Tel Hai International Master Classes (Sde Boker, Israel) Adjudicator at international piano competitions in the U.S. and abroad, including Hilton Head International Piano Competition; Jury chair, Piano Arts Competition (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); and Chicago Symphony Youth Concerto Competition Artist-in-Residence, University of Wisconsin, Madison Professional Affiliations: Faculty member, Chautauqua Institution 1989-1992; East Carolina University, 1972-76; Eastern Music Festival, TCU-Cliburn Institue; Music director, Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra, 1990-96.