Post by deanna on Sept 13, 2011 10:22:55 GMT -7
Pamela Viktoria Pyle’s
forte is the piano. The
Juilliard-trained pianist
was back in New York
this summer, not as the star
performer she often is, but
as a collaborative pianist for
The Juilliard School’s 2011
Starling-DeLay Symposium on
Violin Studies.
Anyone who has heard Pyle
play would attest to her skill
and talent, the nimble nature
of her fingers dancing across
the keys. She breathes life
into the music as each note
is heard, felt and seen in her
facial expressions and body
movements. Through her
fingertips, she, the composer
and piano are one. Violinist
and Julliard faculty Glenn
Dicterow knows.
Yet Pyle was not there to
Pyle plays on
By Carolyn Gonza les
stand out, take center stage,
or be the lone musical voice.
Here, she was accompaniment.
“It requires a different
approach to playing. The
piano becomes the entire
orchestra designed to support
and promote the violin,” she
said. Through her, the piano
became the orchestra, playing
Shostakovich, Bartók,
Beethoven and Schubert. “The
pieces are very different, as is
adapting to the various violinists,”
she said.
Blogger Laurie Niles of violinist.
com chronicled New York
Philharmonic Concertmaster
Dicterow’s master class at the
symposium. Dicterow wanted
a student, Marie-Christine, to
play her violin louder in part of
Schubert’s Fantasy in C Major
where she was backing off.
Marie-Christine pointed
to Pyle, saying, “She has the
melody.”
Dicterow said to the student,
“You have the violin in your
hand, and she has the 500-
pound gorilla.” “Of course,”
Dicterow said pointing to
Pyle, “she makes it sound like
the heart of an angel, but you
still have to be the soloist,”
Niles wrote.
Pyle also played for Ida
Kavafian’s master class. Kavafian,
both violinist and violist,
is an artist-member of the
Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center.
Pyle also participated in
“Sarah Chang and others
remember Dorothy DeLay,”
a panel discussion featuring
Pyle, New York Philharmonic’s
Chang and violinist Ray Iwazumi.
For more than a decade,
Pyle served as a principal pianist
in the studios of DeLay
and Itzhak Perlman.
Pyle is regularly chosen as
the pianist for nationally recognized
summer music institutes,
including the Starling-DeLay.
She is also a regular performer
at the Aspen Music Festival.
forte is the piano. The
Juilliard-trained pianist
was back in New York
this summer, not as the star
performer she often is, but
as a collaborative pianist for
The Juilliard School’s 2011
Starling-DeLay Symposium on
Violin Studies.
Anyone who has heard Pyle
play would attest to her skill
and talent, the nimble nature
of her fingers dancing across
the keys. She breathes life
into the music as each note
is heard, felt and seen in her
facial expressions and body
movements. Through her
fingertips, she, the composer
and piano are one. Violinist
and Julliard faculty Glenn
Dicterow knows.
Yet Pyle was not there to
Pyle plays on
By Carolyn Gonza les
stand out, take center stage,
or be the lone musical voice.
Here, she was accompaniment.
“It requires a different
approach to playing. The
piano becomes the entire
orchestra designed to support
and promote the violin,” she
said. Through her, the piano
became the orchestra, playing
Shostakovich, Bartók,
Beethoven and Schubert. “The
pieces are very different, as is
adapting to the various violinists,”
she said.
Blogger Laurie Niles of violinist.
com chronicled New York
Philharmonic Concertmaster
Dicterow’s master class at the
symposium. Dicterow wanted
a student, Marie-Christine, to
play her violin louder in part of
Schubert’s Fantasy in C Major
where she was backing off.
Marie-Christine pointed
to Pyle, saying, “She has the
melody.”
Dicterow said to the student,
“You have the violin in your
hand, and she has the 500-
pound gorilla.” “Of course,”
Dicterow said pointing to
Pyle, “she makes it sound like
the heart of an angel, but you
still have to be the soloist,”
Niles wrote.
Pyle also played for Ida
Kavafian’s master class. Kavafian,
both violinist and violist,
is an artist-member of the
Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center.
Pyle also participated in
“Sarah Chang and others
remember Dorothy DeLay,”
a panel discussion featuring
Pyle, New York Philharmonic’s
Chang and violinist Ray Iwazumi.
For more than a decade,
Pyle served as a principal pianist
in the studios of DeLay
and Itzhak Perlman.
Pyle is regularly chosen as
the pianist for nationally recognized
summer music institutes,
including the Starling-DeLay.
She is also a regular performer
at the Aspen Music Festival.