Our Team
Hara Trouli , MD was born in Athens, Greece, where she spent her school and university years. She graduated from the American College and went on to study Medicine at the Athens University Medical School. During those years she also studied Piano and Music Theory graduating from the National Conservatory in Athens with a Piano Teaching and Performance Diploma with Honours. Hara’s medical training started in the Accidents and Trauma Hospital in Athens and continued in London with training in Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, the Chase Farm Hospital and the Mount Vernon Hospital. She is married to a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and lives in London with their four teenage children. In the recent years she has been working as a Surgical Assistant in Orthopaedics. She was elected as a deputy chair of the International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance in 2006.
Marina Petrov-Stoykovich launched her solo piano career at the early age of eight. As a child prodigy, she made her debut at the major concert hall in Belgrade followed by her first appearance on the National Television and Radio. Since then she won many competitions and festivals for young musicians on the national level consecutively for 9 years which led to many tours and performances across Yugoslavia. As a result of winning the Yugoslavian National Competition for Young Pianists in 1978, she was given a state scholarship to the Moscow Conservatoire in USSR where she furthered her studies. She continued her studies in Belgrade at with I. Lasko with whom she has been closely collaborating for many years. more...
The distinguished pianist and pedagogue Alberto Portugheis was born in La Plata, Argentina, to parents of Russian and Rumanian descent.
After winning first prize at the Geneva Concours de Virtuosite, Portugheis embarked upon an international career, visiting almost 50 countries.
He performs in recitals, chamber-music concerts and as soloist with many major orchestras, including: Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players,
Philharmonia, English Chamber Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Paris and Israel Sinfoniettas, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Sinfonica Nacional of Argentina, Filarmonica of
Buenos Aires. He frequently broadcasts on radio and television and gives regular Masterclasses.
Alberto's Blog
ALBERTO PORTUGHEIS INTERNATIONAL PIANO MASTERCLASSES
Steve Rodman (B. Mus, PGCE, DipABRSM) is a classroom
music specialist who has spent the last 20 years in the secondary school environment,
mostly as Head of Music, but presently in the capacity as instrumental teacher.
His early musical education was on oboe in Canada where he studied with Richard Dorsey
recently retired Principle Oboe of the Toronto Symphony and in London with Celia Nicklin Principle Oboe of
the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. After leaving college he pursued a career in music education
spending many years studying piano under Carola Grindea where he developed an interest in piano
pedagogy and more specifically best practice in problems of posture and tension in all instrumental fields.
He is currently researching body image/body schema and its ramifications in relation to students'
early interaction with musical instruments with a view to positive intervention - Best Practice for the Best Start.
He is also ISSTIP's
, first stop for enquiries about our webpage.
"Nancy Lee Harper is an extraordinarily multi-talented American musician and scholar who works and lives in Portugal." (Music & Vision) A performing and recording pianist who has concertized on four continents, she dedicates much of her time to teaching at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and overseeing research, some of which is pioneering work. A prolific author, she completed the first ISSTIP Music Medicine certificate course "With Distinction" with her dissertation on Peak Experience (2003-2004). Subsequently, she has written several articles for ISSTIP, such as "Music within our Grasp: Mirror Neurons in Music Instrumental Acquisition with Special Emphasis on Piano Performance"; "Bosoms Up!", a summary of founder Carola Grindea's ISSTIP activities; "Preparing for Performance without Inderal", amongst others. Nancy and her post-doctoral research fellow, Dr. Filipa Lã (U. Sheffield), are currently developing Masters and PhD programs in Music-Medicine that will open in September 2009 at the University of Aveiro, in normal and distance-learning formats. She is honoured to be ISSTIP's worldwide coordinator and to work with the ISSTIP team, welcoming any inquiries and offering any assistance (harper@ua.pt). For more information, please see www.nancyleeharper.com.
Andy Evans (BA Oxon, Graduate Psychologist BPS, MA Performance and Media Health TVU, CTI trained Coach, Performers Cert. RAM). Andy trained at the Royal Academy of Music and worked as a freelance musician until his thirties, when he graduated in psychology and founded Arts Psychology Consultants in order to see performers and creatives in private practice. Over the last 20 years he has specialised in performance and stage fright, published four books on his subject and appeared numerous times on TV and radio talking about performance and media issues. He created the MA course at Thames Valley University in Performance Health and Personal Development in 2006, and is a lecturer and co-leader of this ground-breaking new course for training performance health practitioners.
Professor Earl OWEN, A.O., Legion d'Honneur, M.D.,M.S., D.Sc., MB.BS.(Syd)., F.R.C.S.,F.R.A.C.S., Professor Owen , a Pupil of Irene Edwards and Solomon, combined piano and medical studies before pioneering Microsurgical equipment, techniques, and new operations on the body's tiniest tubal structures, and is known worldwide as one of the "Fathers of Microsurgery". Seeing cell damage under the microscope transformed his approach to forms and patterns of injury, and his understanding of how instrumental musicians could unknowingly cause tissue injury just by the way they were holding or playing their instruments. Most Musician's unknowingly self imposed injuries can be treated without Surgery. He founded the SYDNEY MUSICIAN'S CLINIC in 1977, which diagnoses and treats Musician's injuries and pains, and gives "2nd Opinions" in cases where Musicians have been advised to have operations, and which, with skilled and experienced help from the Clinic, can probably avoid such operations, and resume their careers.
Ukrainian-born Canadian pianist, Ireneus Zuk, has appeared in numerous public, radio and television recitals, with chamber music groups, and as soloist with various orchestras. His concerts have taken him throughout Canada, the USA, Europe and the Far East. Ireneus Zuk is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Musique de Qu�bec and McGill University in Montreal, the Royal College of Music in London, and the Juilliard School in New York. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. where he studied with Leon Fleisher. Winner of many prizes and scholarships, including awards from the Canada Council and Quebec Government, he also held teaching fellowships at the Juilliard School and Peabody Conservatory. Now he combines his teaching with an active concert career. At the present time, he is Professor and Acting Director and also Chair of the Keyboard Area at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada where he served as Director of the School of Music from 1997-2003. more...
Raija Roivainen is a Finnish mezzo-soprano and singing pedagogue. After graduation from the Sibelius-Academy, Helsinki, she made her Finnish Lieder-debut in 1969 and London debut in Wigmore Hall in 1976, and thereafter she has given many recitals in Purcell Room, London, in the Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, and Salle Chopin-Pleyel, Paris, among others. Besides her concert singer's career, she enjoys a reputation as a singing pedagogue. She is a founder member of the Finnish Association of Teachers of Singing (FINATS) After retirement from the Tampere Conservatoire, she published a book on singing ("Laulamisen sietämätön helppous", 2003), for the moment in Finnish only, the title of which in English is "The Unbearable Ease of Singing".
Peter Feuchtwanger, born in Munich, now lives and teaches in London. He studied piano with Gerti Rainer (a pupil of Emil von Sauer), Max Egger, Edwin Fischer and Walter Gieseking; composition with Hans Heimler (a pupil of Alban Berg, Heinrich Schenker and Felix Weingartner) and Lennox Berkeley; Indian and Arabic music and philosophy, amongst others with Nazir Jairazbhoy and Dr. Arnold Bake. He gave up an early successful career as a pianist in order to devote himself to composing and teaching. His greatest musical influence came through his encounter with the Rumanian pianist, Clara Haskil. He has made intensive studies in the bel canto tradition of the golden age of singing. His Variation on an Eastern Folk Tune (Books 1 and 2) won 1st prize at the International Viotti Composition Competition in 1959. In 1966, Yehudi Menuhin commissioned him to write a work for violin, sitar, tabla and tamboura which Menuhin and Ravi Shankar performed at the Bath Festival that year. This led to their successful recording East meets West. Three of Feuchtwanger's Studies in Eastern Idiom for piano were published by Augener's, Galliard and Galaxy. Peter Feuchtwanger adjudicates at many international piano competitions and is Vice President of the UK branch of EPTA (European Piano Teachersttt Association). He has held part-time professorship at Musikhochschulen in Karlsruhe and Basel, and was a visiting professor at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. Due to the exceptionally high standard of his masterclasses held throughout the world since 1967, he has achieved international recognition. more...