Distinguished Teachers Series

Each year the Center for Music Learning hosts 3-5-day residencies by internationally recognized artist-teachers. The individuals selected as Distinguished Teachers represent the very finest musicians who have dedicated themselves to teaching music. The diversity of the Distinguished Teachers selected—performing artists, private teachers, public school teachers, college faculty—reflects the Center's working philosophy that there are common principles that underlie all music teaching and learning, irrespective of instrument, genre, culture, and age and experience of the learner. It is this set of common principles that the Distinguished Teacher Series serves to illuminate.

The public lectures, teaching demonstrations, performances, and discussion sessions that the Distinguished Teachers Series comprises bring together teachers, performers, and scholars from all levels of instruction in interdisciplinary sessions with leading artist-teachers. The design of each artist-teacher's residency includes a variety of large and small-group sessions that permit performers, scholars, teachers, and students from the University and the Austin community to participate in unique interactive activities.

Each Distinguished Teacher's residency includes (1) a public lecture about music teaching, (2) a "teaching master class," in which the guest artist observes and critiques the teaching of several of our students, (3) a public teaching demonstration, and (4) a public performance. The "teaching master class" and the teaching demonstration are videotaped and compiled in the Center's tape library from which the Center will produce the Master Teachers in Music CD-ROM series.

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Distinguished Teacher Honorees for Fall 2009

Bruce Holzman, Professor of Guitar, Florida State University

BRUCE HOLZMAN has been Director of the Guitar Program at Florida State University since 1972. Holzman's students have won many prestigious prizes in competitions worldwide, including winners in: Guitar Foundation of America Solo/Duo Competition, Music Teacher's National Association Collegiate Artists Competition (12), Alirio Diaz Competition of Caracas, Venezuela, Toronto International Festival Competition, Concours Internationale de Guitare of Paris, France, Incontri Chitarristici de Gargnano, Italy, Columbus State Guitar Symposium, Lachine International Guitar Competition, Montreal, Canada, Boston Guitarfest Competition, and Rantucci International Competition. Many of his students hold teaching positions at prominent Universities, Colleges and High Schools. These include: Stetson University, Kennesaw College, University of New Mexico, University of Memphis, Middle Tennessee State University, University of Texas, Austin, University of Texas, San Antonio, East Carolina University, Columbus State University, Montgomery Alabama Magnet Schools. Professor Holzman has been on the Artists' Faculties of The Iserlohn International Guitar Symposium, Germany, Stetson International Guitar Workshop, Columbus States Guitar Symposium, Domaine Forget Academie of Music and Dance, Quebec, Canada, National Guitar Summer Workshop, New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, Boston Guitarfest, and Toronto Guitarfest. He has been an adjudicator for the The International Competition of the Ard, Germany, Iserlohn International Guitar Competition, Guitar Foundation of America, The Boston Guitarfest International Competition, The Domaine Forget Guitar Competition, The Schadt String Concerto Competition, The Joanne Falletta Concerto Competition, and the Columbus State University Guitar Symposium Competition.

Bruce Holzman was awarded a special Lifetime Achievement award at the Fifth New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes held in his honor, "El Maestro/Tradition of the Masters."  

Professor Holzman's Schedule of Public Events

Monday 16 November 4-6 PM MRH Recital Studio Master Class

Tuesday 17 November 5-7 PM MRH 2.614 Master Class

Wednesday 18 November 3-5 PM 2.610 Master Class

Thursday 19 November 12 noon Bates Recital Hall Butler School of Music Convocation

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And later this month, 30 November through 3 December, our Distinguished Teachers Series Honoree will be

H. Robert Reynolds, Professor of Conducting Emeritus, University of Michigan

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Past Distinguished Teacher Honorees 2002-2009

Joseph Flummerfelt, Professor Emeritus, Westminster Choir College
Residency: 18-22 April 2009

Stephen Clapp, Professor of Violin and Dean Emeritus, The Juilliard School
Residency: 24-26 September 2008

Raymond Crisara, Professor of Trumpet Emeritus, The University of Texas at Austin
Residency: 10-12 April 2007

Yehuda Gilad, Professor of Clarinet, University of Southern California
Residency: 6-9 February 2006

Weston Noble, Director of Music Activities, Luther College
Residency: 11-14 October 2005

Aldo Parisot, Professor of Cello, Yale University
Residency: 10-14 April 2005

Eliot Fisk, Professor of Guitar, Mozarteum, Salzburg, and New England Conservatory of Music
Residency: 23-27 February 2004

Donald McInnes, Professor of Viola, University of Southern California
Residency: 31 March - 2 April 2003

Richard Killmer, Professor of Oboe, Eastman School of Music and Yale University
Residency: 18-20 February 2003

Nelita True, Professor of Piano, Eastman School of Music
Residency: 25-27 September 2002