Tomado de un programa de concierto, el curriculum de la persona que da vuelta las paginas del pianista Tonights page turner, Ruth Spelke, studied under Ivan Schmertnick at the Boris Nitsky School of Page Turning in Philadelphia. She has been turning pages here and abroad for many years for some of the worlds leading pianists. In 1988, Ms. Spelke won the Wilson Page Turning Scholarship, which sent her to Israel to study page turning from left to right. She is winner of the 1984 Rimsky Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee Prestissimo Medal, having turned 47 pages in an unprecedented 32 seconds. She was also a 1983 silver medalist at the Klutz Musical Page Pickup Competition where contestants retrieve and reorder a musical score dropped from a Steinway Model M. Ms. Spelke excelled in grace, swiftness, and poise according to Van Cliburn, one of the judges at the event. For techniques, Ms. Spelke performs both the finger-licking and the bent-page corner methods. She works from a standard left bench position, and is the originator of the dipped-elbow page snatch, a style used to avoid obscuring the pianists view of the music. She is page turner-in-residence in Fairfield, Iowa, where she occupies the prestigious Alfred Hitchcock Chair at the Fairfield Page Turning Institute.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 02:28:17 +0000
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