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David
Shimoni is a pianist of national acclaim whose teaching reflects
thorough experience as a performer as well as an extensive
pedagogical background.
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE
Described by the American Record Guide as a pianist whose
playing "was as smooth as velvet," Mr. Shimoni's 2007-2008
engagements include recitals on the Dame Myra Hess series in
Chicago and the Artists Series of Sarasota, at the Dallas Museum
of Art with Southeastern Festival of Song, and in Minnesota and
Louisiana for the Piatigorsky Foundation. He also makes a
concerto appearance with the Philharmonia Northwest in Seattle.
Mr. Shimoni is the first prize winner of the National Federation
of Music Clubs' Young Artist Auditions, International Beethoven
Sonata Competition, Five Towns Music and Art Competition, and
Simone Belsky Competition. In previous seasons he has appeared
in recital in New York's Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall,
92nd St. Y, and Museum of Modern Art, as well as in Los Angeles,
Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Pittsburgh. He has been a guest
artist at the Chautauqua, Brevard, and Foothills music festivals
and a soloist with the International Chamber Ensemble of Rome
and Chappaqua Orchestra.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Shimoni has collaborated with the
Jupiter String Quartet and members of the New Jersey Symphony
and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Mr. Shimoni also appears
regularly in recital with acclaimed opera singers and recently
made a guest appearance with the New York Festival of Song. He
has given educational and outreach concerts throughout the
United States in affiliation with the Piatigorsky Foundation and
Astral Artistic Services and has also performed for the
charitable organization Sing for Hope.
Born in Chapel Hill, NC, Mr. Shimoni attended the North Carolina
School of the Arts during high school and earned a B.A. from
Swarthmore College. He subsequently received the Vladimir
Horowitz Scholarship to study at the Juilliard School, where he
obtained masters degrees in both solo and collaborative
performance. In addition to performing and teaching, Mr. Shimoni
is currently a doctoral student in piano performance at The
Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His
principal teachers have been Yoheved Kaplinsky, Robert McDonald,
Marc Durand, Brian Zeger, Edna Golandsky, and Ilya Itin.
TEACHING APPROACH
In his 10 years of private teaching experience, Mr. Shimoni has
taught students aged 3 - 71. Regardless of the age, amount of
experience, or ambition that a student brings, Mr. Shimoni seeks
to make playing personally enriching, musically satisfying, and
physically comfortable. Cultivating his students' awareness of
their own abilities and of the beauty in the music they play is
his goal. Mr. Shimoni has experience assisting students of all
levels to attain new degrees of technical facility and musical
clarity.
For young beginners Mr. Shimoni is trained in the Suzuki method
of instruction, which he uses in conjunction with other teaching
methods. Mr. Shimoni also has 20 years of experience in the
Taubman approach to piano playing, a physiologically based set
of principles that frees pianists from physical strain and
technical limitations. Since a pianist's ease in learning new
patterns of movement depends first on his/her own physical
awareness and poise, Mr. Shimoni also incorporates his
experience with yoga, meditation, and the Alexander method into
his own playing and teaching.
Mr. Shimoni has given master classes and educational workshops
throughout the United States. He was also invited to give
several presentations on his teaching approach at the 2004 World
Piano Pedagogy Conference in Las Vegas, NV.
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