Pianist in the St. Paul/Minneapolis area?

[Aaron Tindall]

I am wondering if anyone could recommend a really good pianist in the St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN area?

They would need to be able to perform the Plau Concerto, Hindemith Sonata and Landscape.

Thanks in advance for any help/leads.

Aaron

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Hindemith Sonata

You need more than just an excellent accompanist...you need someone who has played this before. Many, many fine pianists will make an effort and "take the job" to find out they just can't get through the last two pages.

I would contact Steven Campbell and see if any of his students have done the sonata recently. Perhaps he or they could steer you to an accompanist with experience doing this piece.

I don't give this advice lightly...I accompany nearly 50 students every year, and there are many pieces I don't think I can do at first that end up being fine. The Hindemith tuba sonata is not one of them, and that's coming from someone who has accompanied both the trumpet and trombone sonatas many times.

Good luck!

(I solved this problem when I was an undergraduate by performing the piece with a Macintosh SE computer!)

[Jess Lightner]

Sorry, don't know any pianists up there.

Just wanted to share a story.

During my undergrad, I turned pages for a friend's tuba recital, on which he played the Hindemtih. I played piano a lot then and knew the accompanist well. She was complaining that she couldn't really make it through the last little bit of the piece (after the tuba recitative). She suggested that, starting there, I sit next to her on the bench and play the left hand while she played the right hand. (The right hand is a constant stream of fast-moving, not patterned, highly chromatic notes for the last two pages, and the left hand just states the main theme of the tuba part a few times) It worked great, and was subtle enough that a few people didn't even notice.

[tubari]

Look up Joanne Scully. She accompanied for me back in jr. high and high school. Wonderfull pianinst and accompianinst.