Shustova & Jacobs Masterclass and Concert

11:30am: Piano Masterclass given by Dr. Shustova and Mx. Christopher Narloch

1:00pm: Dr. Tatiana Shustova (piano) and Dr. Aaron Jacobs (violin) perform

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Program:

J.S. Bach – Prelude from WTK II in G sharp minor

S. Rachmaninoff – Etudes Tableaux Op. 33 No. 8 in G Minor and Op. 39 No. 1 in C Minor

S. Prokofiev – selections from ” Romeo and Juliette”

Mendelssohn – Etude in B flat minor

With Aaron Jacobs, violin:

Two Mazurkas, Op. 19 – Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880)

I. Dudziarz

II. Obertass

La Gitana – F. Kreisler

Nocturne from “String Poetic” – Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)

Sonata for Violin and Piano (1961) – H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)

II. Lento

Dr. Tatiana Shustova Biography:

Dr. Tatiana Shustova was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where she studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music School and the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory. She also participated in piano and chamber music master classes at the Music Hochschule in Leipzig, Germany, in collaboration with New York’s Juilliard School.

Tatiana completed the Artist’s Certificate Program and a Master’s degree in piano performance at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She studied with Maxim Mogilevsky and Robert Satterlee and won first prize in the 40th annual Concerto Competition.

In 2008, she was awarded a fellowship to enter the doctoral program in piano performance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance under the direction Dr. Ian Hobson in spring 2013.

Tatiana has appeared at festivals in the United States such as the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, Illinois Summer Youth Music, the Bowling Green Music Institute, and the Toradze Piano Institute. In Europe: the Ionian Summer Music academy, Corfu, Greece; Les Orres International summer academy, Embrun, France; Suomussalmi Music Festival, Suomussalmi, Finland; and Musica Atri, Atri and Scuola Italia, Urbania, Italy. Tatiana has received numerous awards in solo and chamber music competitions in Italy and Russia and has played many concerts in Europe. At the competition Musica Atri (2004), she received 1st place along with an invitation to play concerts and the opportunity to participate in master classes with Eugenie Mogilevsky, professor at the Brussels Conservatory.

During the summer of 2010, Tatiana was appointed as a vocal coach at the Scuola Italia program (Urbania, Italy). During the same year, Tatiana and her husband Aaron Jacobs (violin) received second prize at the international music competition Premio Alberto Gori. In October 2011, Tatiana and Aaron where invited to perform works by Liszt in the Liszt-Garrison Festival and Competition and won an award for their performance of “String Poetic” by Jennifer Higdon.In November 2012 Tatiana received First Place in the American Protege International Romantic Music Competition and had her Carnegie Weill Recital Hall Debut. In March 2013 Tatiana had a solo recital at the Krannert Center for the Arts at Urbana, Illinois for annual 21st century piano commission award.

Tatiana is currently an adjunct faculty member at Millikin University School of Music, where she is collaborative pianist and piano class professor, as well as piano, chamber music, theory and musicianship instructor for the Illinois String Academy and Piano Laboratory Program at UIUC. Her recent chamber music collaborations includes Illinois Arts Trio performances with Prof. Amy Catron (cello) and her husband Prof. Aaron Jacobs (violin) and Illinois tour with flute artist from Finland Sami Junnonen. In addition, she mentors an independent piano studio in Savoy, Illinois where she resides with her husband and two sons, and is Artistic Director of the Chambana Music Competition, which recently received Urbana Arts Grant.

Dr. Aaron Jacobs Biography:

Dr. Aaron Jacobs enjoys a multifaceted career as a teacher, performing artist, ensemble director, and clinician. His teaching experience includes public school, community, pre-college, and university level studio and classroom teaching. His performance experience includes extensive work as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. Additionally, he has an extensive background in program building, curriculum design, pre-service and professional teacher education, administration, and leadership.

For over 20 years, Aaron has taught at universities, academies, music schools, and summer institutes throughout Ohio, Maine, Wisconsin, and Illinois. At the collegiate level, he taught applied violin, string pedagogy, and string methods courses as a faculty member at Millikin University and Illinois State University, and as a graduate assistant at Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For ten years, Aaron worked at the University of Illinois, where he collaborated with a team of faculty and graduate students to establish the Pre-College Chamber Music Program in 2011 and personally founded the Illinois String Academy in 2015. There, he maintained a studio of roughly 25–30 violin and viola students annually, mentored a staff of undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral instructors, provided his staff with pedagogical training on a weekly basis, taught a wide range of violin and viola group classes, coached pre-college chamber music, directed two chamber orchestras, and administered all the Academy’s offerings. Also in 2015, he created a violin program for Danville, IL school district 118, which offered violin instruction to nearly 200 first and second grade students at two elementary schools in Danville, IL. Aaron continues to instruct young violinists and violists privately, and his students consistently win top honors and performance awards each year, including solo concerto performances with orchestras as well as admission and scholarship offers to prestigious collegiate music institutions.

As an active chamber and solo recitalist, Aaron has performed throughout the United States and Europe. Collaborations with his wife and duo partner—pianist, Tatiana Shustova—have been particularly rewarding. Since 2005, performances have taken the Jacobs-Shustova Duo to Italy, Russia, and several U.S. states, and they have earned awards at two international competitions. Notable chamber music collaborations for competitions and tours have included the Sariana Trio (violin, saxophone, and piano), Chambana Arts Trio (violin, cello, and piano), and the Illinois Arts Trio (violin, cello, and piano). Aaron has worked closely with composers Stacy Garrop, Missy Mazzoli, and Bright Sheng in the performances of their works. His extensive work as a professional orchestral musician has included numerous appointments as concertmaster, principal second violin, or principal viola, and he has been a featured soloist with chamber orchestras at Bowling Green State University and the University of Illinois, the Danville Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and the Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra.

As a clinician, Aaron has served as Co-Director and faculty member of the Paul Rolland String Pedagogy (PRSP) Workshop for professional musicians and teachers. In this role, he has become a resource to string teachers throughout the United States and on six continents. In 2017, he presented a research poster session at the American String Teachers Association National Conference; more recently, he has presented clinical sessions at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in 2019 and the Illinois Music Educators Conference in 2020 and 2022. He has been invited to lead master classes and clinics at collegiate institutions in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and is a certified Mentor for string teachers enrolled in the certification program of the PRSP Society, for which he is also a member of the Board of Directors. In 2022, Aaron designed a PRSP course for ISU that will grant Level 1 Endorsement towards certification to the string majors enrolled and will also be involved as an instructor for additional PRSP certification events throughout the summer.

Aaron is particularly grateful to his many teachers and mentors over the years. His primary violin instructors and professors include (in chronological order) Kay Harbaugh, Anna Bittar Weller, William Terwilliger, Movses Pogossian, Dr. Penny Thompson Kruse, Vasile Beluska, Bernard Zinck, Gerardo Ribeiro, Sherban Lupu, Sibbi Bernhardsson, and Megan Freivogel. Viola professors include Csaba Erdélyi and Charlie Pickler. String education and pedagogy mentors include Dr. Elaine Colprit, Darcy Drexler, Stacia Spencer, Dr. James Kjelland, Mimi Zweig, Sherry Sinift, Dr. Gerald Fischbach, and Joanne May. Orchestral studies with Blair Milton and Charlie Pickler. Additional violin performance studies (alphabetically) with Marjorie Bagley, Yehonatan Berick, Jacques Israelievitch, Ilya Kaler, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Almita Vamos, Roland Vamos, Won-Bin Yim, and Mimi Zweig. Master class performances for Alla Aranovskaya, Dmitri Berlinsky, Lawrence Dutton, Ralph Evans, Jacques Israelievitch, Sherri Kloss, Annette Barbara Vogel, Jasper Wood, the Jupiter Quartet, Parker Quartet, Won-Bin Yim, and Mimi Zweig. And chamber music studies with the Audubon Quartet, Alan Bodman, Alan Chan, Lawrence Dutton, Csaba Erdélyi, the Fine Arts Quartet, James Giles, Ian Hobson, the Jupiter Quartet, Stefan Kartman, Kevin Lawrence, Stefan Milenkovich, the Pacifica Quartet, Max Raimie, Debra Richtmeyer, Alan Smith, and Almita Vamos.