Carthage immensely piano program gives piano students a solid foundation for understanding and performing the glorious complexities of the piano repertoire
It’s an exciting time to study piano or organ at Carthage College. Nestled in an idyllic campus overlooking Lake Michigan, we offer an outstanding learning environment within a relatively short drive of two musical centers—Chicago and Milwaukee. And we’re becoming a musical innovator in the region as our keyboard program has offered opportunities not available on any other campus.
Within the last two years alone, Carthage was home to the Brahms Project, a series of 13 recitals of Brahms’ complete solo and chamber music for piano. The series featured our own keyboard faculty and world-renowned violinist Ilya Kaler. Carthage also hosted the opening night of a monumental “Beethoven: 5 Concertos, 1 Pianist” concert, which featured Carthage’s own Professor Wael Farouk, director of keyboard studies, and the award-winning New Philharmonic Orchestra. The ensemble performed all five Beethoven concertos in a single concert, three nights in a row—it is believed to be the first time this feat has been undertaken in the United States and internationally.
Guest artists who have performed and given masterclasses with our students during this time have included internationally acclaimed pianist and Sony artist Simone Dinnerstein and international performer Carmen Vila. This year’s guest artist will be the famed Jorge Federico Osorio.
