presents the

14 TH ANNUAL
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC
INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL
Co-sponsored by:
Palm Beach Atlantic University
Steinway Piano Gallery
In collaboration with
The International Certificate for Piano Artists
A pedagogical program of
The Fondation Bell’Arte
with
The Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris “Alfred Cortot”

2020 Concerts:
Sunday, February 16 – 4:00 PM
Monday, February 17 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday, February 19 – 7:30 PM
Helen K. Persson Recital Hall in Vera Lea Rinker Hall

Friday, February 21 – 8:00 PM

Finale Concerto Concert
ICPA Artists with the Palm Beach Atlantic Symphony
Rinker Playhouse at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
 Monday, February 17, 2020

~ Romanticism ~

Etude in F minor, Op. 10, No. 9

Etude in G-flat major, Op. 25, No. 9
Etude in C minor, Op. 10, No. 12
Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55, No. 1
Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 55, No. 2 F. Chopin (1810-1849)

Aarun Monteiro Kassam, Portugal

 
Suggestion diabolique, Op. 4, No. 4 S. Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Simon-Pierre Pollin, Belgium

INTERMISSION

Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10  S. Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Jessica Waymeyer, USA (Palm Beach Atlantic University Senior)

Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante in E-flat major, Op. 22 F. Chopin (1810-1849)

Kyung-Ah Kim, South Korea

Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47 F. Chopin (1810-1849)

Choral et variations H. Dutilleux (1916-2013)

Elodie Vignon, France

The ICPA artists are performing on the Steinway Grand Piano provided through
the generosity of the Addison Hines Charitable Trust.
 ~ Festival Faculty ~
The Italian virtuoso Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri was born in Argentina, and was instructed by Magda
Tagliaferro, Claudio Arrau and Gyorgy Cziffra. In addition to his performing and recording career that took him
to several continents, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri is also a famed international piano pedagogue. He has been
one of the main piano teachers at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" as well as “professor
extraordinaire” at the Chapelle Musicale "Reine Elisabeth" in Belgium. In 2017, he was appointed honorary
professor of the Palm Beach Atlantic University-School of Music and Fine Arts. Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri
gives frequent master classes in France, USA, Canada, Russia, Lithuania, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain,
Switzerland, Greece, South Korea, Taiwan, and China, and more. He also collaborated for the festivities of the
European Union Day in Seoul, South Korea, by special invitation of the European Community. Cultural and
pedagogical broadening is an important goal of his duties as general director of the Bell'Arte Foundation. Mr.
Delle-Vigne Fabbri is also the artistic director of Musica Braine l'Alleud, the Paris International Summer
Sessions and of the EMS Music Group. Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri is the founder and artistic director of The
International Certificate for Piano Artists, a pedagogical programme in collaboration with the Ecole Normale de
Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot", the Palm Beach Atlantic University, Lithuania National Academy, Taiwan
University of Education, and many other international institutions, worldwide. Mr. Delle-Vigne Fabbri
participates on the jury of many international competitions as panel member or president of the jury.

Roberta Rust debuted as soloist with the Houston Symphony at age sixteen and as recitalist at Weill Recital
Hall at Carnegie Hall. The New York Times hailed her as "a powerhouse of a pianist — one who combines an
almost frightening fervour and intensity with impeccable technique and Spartan control." Her recordings feature
music of Debussy, Haydn, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev, and contemporary American composers. FANFARE
Magazine notes, "she proves herself a first-rate Debussy player...This is quite simply one of the finest Debussy
discs I have heard in recent memory." Solo recitals include performances at Sala Cecilia Meireles (Rio de
Janeiro), Merkin Concert Hall (NY), Corcoran Gallery (Washington, DC), and KNUA Hall (Seoul). Rust has
played with the Lark, Ying, and Amernet String Quartets and her festival appearances include the Mainly Mozart
Festival (Miami), OPUSFEST (Philippines), Beethoven Festival (Oyster Bay), and La Gesse (France). She has
performed as soloist with numerous orchestras including the New Philharmonic, Philippine Philharmonic, The
Redlands Symphony, Knox-Galesburg Symphony, and the New World Symphony. Roberta Rust serves as Artist
Faculty-Piano/Professor and Head of the Piano Department at the Lynn University Conservatory of Music in
Boca Raton, Florida. In 2016 she received the "Deanne and Gerald Gitner and Family Excellence in Teaching
Award."
Born in Texas of American Indian ancestry, Rust studied at the Peabody Conservatory, graduated "summa cum
laude" from the University of Texas at Austin, and received performer’s certificates in piano and German Lieder
from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She earned her master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music and
her doctorate at the University of Miami. Her teachers included Ivan Davis, Artur Balsam, John Perry, and
Phillip Evans and master class studies were with Gary Graffman, Leon Fleisher, and Carlo Zecchi.

Russian-American pianist Irena Kofman, D.M.A., is widely acclaimed across five continents as a solo and
chamber musician. A recipient of many prestigious awards, she maintains an active performance and lecture
schedule. Renowned as a teacher, many of her piano students are distinguished performers and educators
throughout the Americas and in Europe. She holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Miami
and is the Director of Keyboard Studies at Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and
Letters in Boca Raton, Florida.
THE INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE FOR PIANO ARTISTS program is an internationally organized
master course. Institutions such as the École Normale de Musique “Alfred Cortot”, Palm Beach Atlantic
University-School of Music, Lithuanian National Academy of Music, Taiwan University of Education/Music
School, Valldemossa Chopin Festival, Atlanta Chopin Society, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the
Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Schnittke Institute, and Ottawa University are a few of many prestigious names
associated with this program and its opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s top artist-pedagogues.
Courses of study take place in Paris, as well as at the Fondation Bell’Arte in Braine l’Alleud-Brussels, Belgium,
Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, China, Lithuania, Taiwan and West Palm Beach. The present Palm Beach Atlantic
International Piano Festival is part of this program and is hosted by the Palm Beach Atlantic University School
of Music and Fine Arts.

The purpose of this unique program is to provide participants with the benefits of artistic coaching and career
guidance from prestigious artist-teachers who represent diverse piano traditions. Participation in the International
Certificate Sessions is highly competitive. A limited number of students from around the world are chosen for
the program each year. Consideration is given to any pianist of a high technical and artistic level interested in
performing professionally or in pursuing a professional teaching career. In the latter case, a live audition will be
requested. There is no age limit for the International Certificate for Piano Artists. The students are admitted to a
special course during which they are coached by a team of distinguished piano maestros. In addition to the
program’s artist faculty, select world-renowned artists will be invited as special guests: Philippe Entremont, who
was the ICPA’s president for more than 10 years; the late Lazar Berman, president; the late France Clidat, vice-
president; Jerome Lowenthal, ICPA’s current vice-president; Francois-Rene Duchâble, Michel Béroff, Jean-
Philippe Collard, Bruno Rigutto, Eugen Indjic, Robert Roux, Josep Colom, Mikhaïl Karpov, Daniel Blumenthal,
and Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, ICPA’s founder and artistic director. In September 2015, French-Belgian
composer Jean Kluger was named President of ICPA.

The Fondation Bell’Arte, based near Brussels, Belgium, was born from a profound human and musical ideal.
Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, internationally known pianist and pedagogue, considered it a duty of the elders to
share their personal experience and knowledge with young upcoming artists, traversing borders and nationalities.
The Foundation is, above all, a place where different cultures can meet through art to stimulate artistic creation.
Classical Music, Lyric Art and Fine Arts take an important place in its activities. The International Certificate for
Piano Artists is an expression of this underlying philosophy – gathering young gifted pianists from all around the
world to grow together in their new career, while being accompanied and supported by the Great Masters of the
program’s faculty.

Special thanks to the following individuals and corporations for their

support and commitment to the success of this year’s festival:

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bung

Access Insurance Underwriter, LLC

Rybovich
Steinway Gallery of Boca Raton

Host Families
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kuharcik
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hughes
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Aliapoulios
Dr. and Mrs. Don McCulloch