Your Mentors
Victoria Neve
Victoria Neve, D.M.A., has distinguished herself as a piano soloist, chamber musician, duo pianist and accompanist in concerts throughout the United States. Her appearances include presentations for the College Music Society, the National Conference on Women in Music, the Memphis State Music Festival, the State Convention of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers, and the National Convention of the Music Teachers National Association. Neve is founder and director of the San Francisco Young Pianists Competition. Email: docvic@sfsu.edu
Roger Woodward
Roger Woodward performed with Abbado, Mehta, Maazel, Boulez, Leinsdorf, Masur, Dutoit, Tan Li Hua, Rowicki, Tintner. He has worked with Messiaen, Xenakis, Cage, Feldman, Zappa, Stockhausen, Radulescu, Takemitsu. There have been eighty recording projects (Goethe prize, Diapason d'or); Chevalier dans l'ordre des arts et des lettres. Artistic Director of festivals in London, Sydney, Kotschach-Mauthen, La Bourgogne. Woodward is the founding director of the School of Music and Dance (2002). He studied piano in Sydney with Alexander Sverjensky (pupil of Rakhmaninov, Glazunov) and at Warsaw Chopin Academy with Zbigniew Drzewiecki. Email: woodward@sfsu.edu