AmerKlavier
is a unique model of advanced piano performance study created by the renowned
artist and teacher Eteri Andjaparidze at DePaul University School of Music,
to nurture multi-faceted professional musicians. Innovatively designed and
based on the world’s finest traditions of the art of the piano playing,
it offers specialized guidance with extensive performing experience, and
strives to expand and engage the artistic potential of young pianists-to-be
in varied artistic/educational projects and concert/colloquium series. This
comprehensive piano performance program at DePaul is attuned to
students’ abilities as well as to their personalities. It seeks to
uncover and address individual qualities and needs of aspiring pianists, and
help them attain the fluency of true mastery.
Founded as a part of The United Sounds of America festival directed by Eteri Andjaparidze at DePaul in 2003, the initial AmerKlavier series was dedicated to a retrospective of American piano music, with the title AmerKlavier (American Piano) inspired by Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 106, Hammer-Klavier (Hammered Piano).
Shaped by extraordinary artistic and pedagogical vision, AmerKlavier brings new dimensions to the solo and collaborative piano repertoire. Its leitmotif merges artistic and educational spheres, while providing rigorous professional training through the real performing life experience. Integrating artistic components into the educational program reaches multiple layers of students’ perception and enables them to better absorb the broad spectrum of the performing arts.
AmerKlavier is dedicated to artistic and educational excellence, as well as exceptional professional camaraderie, and is the first piano performance studio named to the prestigious International Steinway Artists roster.
Featuring Eteri Andjaparidze, Professor of Piano and Head of the Keyboards Program at DePaul, her students, colleagues, and guests from the US and around the world, AmerKlavier Musical Offering is thoroughly compiled to enhance the learners’ perspective and imagination, to refine their craft and artistry, and to build a nourishing cultural environment as sharing countless musical treasures with wide audiences. All events are free, open to the public, and performed on the Steinway grand house pianos at the DePaul University School of Music halls.
Complete calendar of AmerKlavier events
Trace the roots of the AmerKlavier Studio Musical Ancestry(*)
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(*)The AmerKlavier Ancestry chart is presented in Adobe PDF format. Free PDF Reader is available at the Adobe Systems web site.