SENIOR PIANO ADJUDICATOR------MICHAEL ESCH.
SENIOR PIANO ADJUDICATOR------MICHAEL ESCH.
Michael Esch holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance from Rice University where his teachers included Robert Roux and Jon Kimura Parker. Other major influences include his first teacher, Rosemary Collins, and master classes with Lazar Berman, Emanuel Ax and Anton Kuerti. Dr. Esch has been featured in numerous recitals throughout Canada including at the Glenn Gould Studio for the CBC, and for the Canadian University Music Society. He has also appeared in concert throughout Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the United States and Germany, as well as various centres in the far east. He has performed with numerous orchestras in Canada, and has collaborated with a number of acclaimed artists including the Belgian violinist Michael Guttman and the eminent violist, Rivka Golani and the Canadian Sinfonietta Chamber Players. Michael has enjoyed grant support from the Chalmers Foundation, and has been a multiple grant recipient from the Canada Council for the Arts.
A sought after adjudicator in Canada, Michael has adjudicated festivals at the Provincial for the O.M.F.A., ORMTA, NSMFA, PABC, the Canadian Music Competition 50’th Anniversary National Tour, and the Glenn Gould School Concerto Competition, among many others. He is a senior examiner for RCM examinations. Dr. Esch has taught at Wilfrid Laurier University and has served on staff at the Glenn Gould School/RCM since 2007. In 2010 Michael and his wife opened the Esch Music Academy in Markham Ontario. His students have distinguished themselves in festivals at the International, National and Provincial levels, as orchestral soloists, ORMTA Young Artist Tour recipients, and on RCM exams including the 2012 National Gold Medal recipient for the Licentiate Diploma level. Michael will be a featured pianist on the CD series for the upcoming release of a new RCM Piano Syllabus in 2015.
Michael Esch holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance from Rice University where his teachers included Robert Roux and Jon Kimura Parker. Other major influences include his first teacher, Rosemary Collins, and master classes with Lazar Berman, Emanuel Ax and Anton Kuerti. Dr. Esch has been featured in numerous recitals throughout Canada including at the Glenn Gould Studio for the CBC, and for the Canadian University Music Society. He has also appeared in concert throughout Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the United States and Germany, as well as various centres in the far east. He has performed with numerous orchestras in Canada, and has collaborated with a number of acclaimed artists including the Belgian violinist Michael Guttman and the eminent violist, Rivka Golani and the Canadian Sinfonietta Chamber Players. Michael has enjoyed grant support from the Chalmers Foundation, and has been a multiple grant recipient from the Canada Council for the Arts.
A sought after adjudicator in Canada, Michael has adjudicated festivals at the Provincial for the O.M.F.A., ORMTA, NSMFA, PABC, the Canadian Music Competition 50’th Anniversary National Tour, and the Glenn Gould School Concerto Competition, among many others. He is a senior examiner for RCM examinations. Dr. Esch has taught at Wilfrid Laurier University and has served on staff at the Glenn Gould School/RCM since 2007. In 2010 Michael and his wife opened the Esch Music Academy in Markham Ontario. His students have distinguished themselves in festivals at the International, National and Provincial levels, as orchestral soloists, ORMTA Young Artist Tour recipients, and on RCM exams including the 2012 National Gold Medal recipient for the Licentiate Diploma level. Michael will be a featured pianist on the CD series for the upcoming release of a new RCM Piano Syllabus in 2015.
