Faculty

Kazimierz Brzozowski
is a founder and director of the International Music Festival in Naleczów. He has garnered international acclaim for his captivating performances, in particular the music of Chopin. He has won awards in several national and international competitions and festivals and has received scholarships from the Chopin Society of Warsaw, Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, and the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Foundation. He has given recitals and performed with orchestras in Poland, U.S.A. and Japan. He has been featured on the Polish Radio and National Television and made CD recordings with Music of Chopin , Liszt and Szymanowski. He holds a Master’s degree from the Fr. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan. Professor Brzozowski speaks Polish and English. Link

Steven Spooner
has performed around the world and is quickly becoming one of the more noted American pianists of his generation. He has performed solo recitals at prestigious venues such as the Salle Cortot in Paris, Holland's Vredenburg Centre, Budapest's Great Hall of the Liszt Academy, Geneva's Fête de la Musique and numerous halls across Europe, Latin America, South America, and the

United States

. Dr. Spooner's orchestral engagements include recent performances with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin during their 2005 tour of North America. Last year he made his Carnegie Hall recital debut in a tour sponsored by the Hungarian Government and this season will perform in Chicago, Washington D.C., Budapest, Italy, and Taiwan. Link

Shoko Kusuhara
graduated in Piano Performance at the Toho University in Tokyo. She also completed post graduate studies at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, Poland. She was the First Prizewinner at the Bela Siki Piano Competition in 1989. She has given concerts in Japan, New South Wales Australia, and Bamberg in Germany as a soloist and a chamber musician. She performs frequently in Poland as well. Her recording of Chopin’s Mazurkas Op.41 was broadcasted on the Radio-Gdansk. She has given master classes about Chopin’s works in Japan and has had interpretation courses with pianists and distinguished professors from Poland. She is now a lecturer at Piano Department of the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo. Prof. Kusuhara speaks Japanese, Polish and English.

Leonid Tamulevich
is Associate Professor of Piano Performance at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia.
A graduate of Moscow Conservatory, he has appeared with solo recitals and performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras in Europe, America, Australia and Far East. He is a frequent guest artist and faculty member at major music festivals. He is frequently invited to give master classes at music schools and colleges all over the world and to judge international competitions. He has been on the faculty of our festival since 2001. Professor Tamulevich speaks Russian, English and French.

Tomoko Mack
is a performing duo pianist. She has won, together with her sister Yuki, First Prize and Kodama Prize at the Fourth International Piano Duo Competition in Tokyo; the Ellis Two-Piano Competition and the Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition and was featured artist in the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Michigan, the Symposium for Two-Pianos in Florida and the Quebec International Two Piano Festival.
She has concertized in Japan, Poland, Italy and Sweden and recorded several discs with music for four hands and two pianos. She maintains a very busy performing and teaching schedule. Professor Mack speaks English and Japanese. Lin k