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<p class="MsoNormal">You are cordially invited to the piano recital presented by guest pianist, Jan Loeffler on March 8, 2017 at 7:30 pm in the Recital Hall at Texas A&M University-Commerce
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<p class="xdefault" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Jan Loeffler</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> performs as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician, in countries such as Germany,
the UK, the USA, France, Italy, Hungary and Ireland, and with orchestras including the Camerata Europeana, the Heidelberg Philharmonic and the Helios Chamber Orchestra, amongst others. His chamber music partners include members of the Philharmonia Orchestra
London and the Vienna Philharmonic. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xdefault" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Performances of Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ in a critically acclaimed performance at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland and in the USA with tenor Mark Duff
were particular highlights, as was the world premiere of a composition by British composer Howard Skempton</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">,</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> commissioned for him and
his mezzo-soprano wife Ksynia. Jan has given the UK premieres of pieces by Mendelssohn contemporary Ferdinand David and American composer Michael Slayton with violinist Peter Sheppard-Skærved, Viotti Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xdefault" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Jan has given master-classes at
</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Vanderbilt University (USA), Lipscomb University (USA), Pepperdine University (USA)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> and for
<i>London Piano Masters</i> summer school at the Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire, as well as being a faculty member at Interharmony International Music Festival. He held teaching posts at Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama London
and Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Deputy), and he is currently a professor of piano at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where several of his students are national and international prize winners. Jan adjudicates regularly, and chaired the panel in
the 2015 final of the Jersey Young Musician of the Year competition.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xdefault" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Jan graduated from the
</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hochschule f</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ü</span></i><i><span lang="DA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">r Musik W</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ü</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">rzburg</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
in Piano Pedagogy and in Piano Performance. Invited to study at all four </span>
<span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">London</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> music colleges with two scholarships, he accepted a place at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Ian Fountain and obtained
his MMus (Performance & Research) in piano and LRAM teaching licentiate in September 2009. He is the author of two dissertations: The Teaching of Excellence - Investigating the Role of the Teacher (Royal Academy of Music London, 2009), and
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Expert Learning - The Neuro-Scientific Approach to Expertise (Hochschule f</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ü</span><span lang="DA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">r
Musik W</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ürzburg, Germany, 2005).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xdefault" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Jan has participated in master-classes with Christopher Elton, Andrzej Jasiński,
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">John O</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">’Conor, Ivá</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">n Kl</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">á</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">nsky,
Pascal Devoyon, Josef Anton Scherrer, Nikita Jushanin, Renate Kretschmar-Fischer, Thomas Stumpf, and the piano duos Hans-Peter & Volker Stenzl and Andreas Grau & G</span><span lang="SV" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ö</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">tz
Schumacher, as well as Andrew Marriner and Ian Brown. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="xapple-style-span"><b><span style="color:black">Dr. Luis Sanchez</span></b></span><span class="xapple-style-span"><span style="color:black"> | <b>Associate Professor, Piano</b></span></span><b><span style="color:black"><br>
</span></b><span class="xapple-style-span"><span style="color:black">Department of Music | Texas A&M University-Commerce</span></span><span style="color:black"><br>
</span><span class="xapple-style-span"><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:Luis.Sanchez@tamuc.edu">Luis.Sanchez@tamuc.edu</a></span></u></span><u><span style="color:blue"><br>
</span></u><span class="xapple-style-span"><span style="color:black">PO Box 3011 | Commerce, TX 75429</span></span><span style="color:black"><br>
<span class="xapple-style-span">Tel. 903.886.5287 | Fax 903.468.6010| </span></span><span class="xapple-style-span"><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/">www.tamuc.edu</a></span></span><span style="color:blue"><br>
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