2024 Conference Guest Artists
"The Reverón Trio shines at the Casals. Pianist Yefim Brofman and the Reverón Trio exuded virtuosity in their respective presentations" by El Diario de Puerto Rico, May 2022.
The Reveron Trio is made up of three of the most outstanding musicians from Venezuela. The trio incorporates beautiful, wonderful works by Latin American composers to the standard repertoire. Audiences and presenters, just love their presentations, they talk about the unknown works with such charm and humor. They will be in residence at El Paso University this autumn, and have held residencies at important colleges, from Ann Arbor, to the State University of Tennessee.
El Reverón has performed in festivals and halls of prestige including Festival Casals en Puerto Rico, the Granada Festival in Spain, at the Aruba Symphony Festival, Beethoven Festival Park City, the Music Institute of Chicago, Chamber Music Wilmington and American Music Festival in North Carolina. Additionally the Reverón Trío has held residencies at the Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin, Dickinson College, Lawrence University, Louisiana State University, el Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, Collaborative Piano Institute in Ann Arbor Michigan.
Recent engagements include concerts at the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, Latin American Music Initiative's first conference, Aruba Symphony Festival, the Beethoven Festival Park City, the Collaborative Piano Institute, Festival A la Vela de la Alhambra in Granada, and the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Additionally, the trio has been in residence at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin, Dickinson College, Lawrence University, Louisiana State University, the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, the Collaborative Piano Institute, and various other universities in the U.S. and abroad. Upcoming projects include recitals at the National Gallery of Art, West Virginia Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Wilmington and American Music Festival in North Carolina, Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima, Concerts, the Cervantino Festival in México, the release of their next audi recording produced and distributed globally by IBS Classical, the Latin American Chamber Music Series at the Music Institute of Chicago, a concert tour in Peru, and residencies at various other universities in the U.S. and abroad.
Peter Mack
Irish pianist Peter Mack is in great demand as a performer, clinician, convention artist, adjudicator, and teacher. Celebrated for his moving playing, and his easy rapport with audiences, he has performed throughout the United States and Europe, as well as in Australia, India, and the former Soviet Union. He is the winner of the New Orleans, Young Keyboard Artists, and Pacific International Piano Competitions. His prize in the Sherman-Clay competition included a Steinway grand piano. Naturally, he is a Steinway artist!
Peter Mack is well known for his extensive repertoire, having performed twenty-six concertos with orchestras. A choral scholar at Trinity College Dublin, and a fellow of Trinity College London, he has a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Washington. His principal teachers were Frank Heneghan, and Bela Siki. Past engagements include performances in two of the most acoustically perfect performance spaces in Europe; the Salle Cortot of the Ecole Normale in Paris, and the Haydnsaal of the Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt, Austria.
Recently, Dr. Mack received the extraordinary honor of being asked to deliver both the Advanced Piano Masterclass at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) annual convention, and the Masterclass for MTNA Winners at the biennial National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP) in Illinois. His students are frequent winners of local, national, and international competitions. He is the proud teacher of twenty-one MTNA national finalists, and three MTNA national first place winners. In the most recent MTNA election for national officers, he was voted president-elect. His term as president of the organization will run from 2023-2025.
"Mack is one of those lucky ones, born with a completely balanced set of talents. He has perfect piano hands, his technique is all but infallible, he has boundless temperament, style and taste, and above all, he communicates directly.... In all capacities he is indefatigable...." ~ Los Angeles Times