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Want your children to enjoy music
more? If they are good readers they'll be able to make music
their whole lives, alone and collaborating with others. The
vast majority of transfer students I get after a few years of
study cannot read even the simplest melody without hesitating
after each measure. My students learn to read rhythms from the
first lesson by starting with simple note patterns.
Nicholas Underhill is a certified member of the Ohio Music
Teachers Association, the regional subset of the Music Teachers
National Association. He is also an active member of the
Fortnightly Club of Cleveland, a member group of the National
Federation of Music Clubs. A frequent adjudicator for advanced
students in OMTA competitions, he is a former piano faculty of
Hiram College and Mount Union College. He holds a B.A. in Music
from Hampshire College and a M.M. Piano from the New England
Conservatory of Music. His teachers include Konrad Wolff, Katja
Andy, Edmund Battersby, Monica Jakuc and Russell Sherman.
Pianist/ Composer Nicholas Underhill has performed solo
recitals in New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Madison
Wisconsin, and Rome, Italy. His numerous New York recitals
include his 1985 debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall, a 1987
performance at Merkin Concert Hall, and a June, 1993 concert in
Weill Recital Hall. His first solo CD, entitled Michael Viens:
York, Maine, Fin des Siecles, was released in 1995 on the Master
Musicians Collective label, and was followed by another solo CD
recording of his own Piano Sonata and his Piano Concerto,
recorded in Prague, Czech Republic, with Mr. Underhill as
soloist. He has performed with the Cleveland Ballet, with the
Lakeside Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Robert
Cronquist, the San Jose Symphony and the Cleveland Ballet
Orchestra, under the direction of Dwight Oltman. He frequently
appears with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and the Chamber
Collective, of which he is a director and founding member.
Re-emerging as a composer within the last 4 years, Nicholas
Underhill has recently been commissioned by the Cleveland
Orchestra, the Ohio music Teachers Association, The Fortnight;y
Club of Cleveland, The Greater Cleveland Flute Society Club,
hornist Richard King, violinist Takako Masame and flutist Mary
Kay Fink. His works have also been performed in Weill Recital
Hall, Cami Hall, and The National Flute Association.
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