In the weeks preceding November 3, the strains of Bach,
Haydn, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Debussy, Gershwin, and Scriabin could
be heard wafting through the halls of the music building as piano students
prepared for the MMTA piano competition. Six students boarded a van the
afternoon of November 2: Zach Bryngelson, Laura Berthold, Kaylen Draschil, TJ
Goze, Brian Hofmann, and Ryan Moore.
Dr. Clara Christian, piano professor, said that “this is the
third year our piano department has taken contestants to the MMTA state
collegiate auditions held the first weekend of every November. We bring five
contestants a year, which is higher than many other colleges and universities
and demonstrates the willingness to push towards excellence that characterizes
all of our advanced piano students.
The auditions are held each year at
different universities throughout the state of Missouri, and this year it took
place at University of Central Missouri-Warrensburg. All the C of O
students reached new levels of achievement with the pieces they were playing,
and some of the performances truly represented personal bests. It was also
exciting to hear the students play in a hall that's larger than ours, and
perform on a Steinway D 9 foot grand piano that's less than a year old.”
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