Resume

Dr. Jonathan Faiman

“…A pianist with the kind of technique that affords remarkable clarity even in the speediest lines.”

- New York Times

Education

Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance

Manhattan School of Music, 1995

• Primary Teacher: Leon Fleisher
• Doctoral
  Thesis: Three piano transcriptions from Wozzeck, with a discussion of
  other keyboard arrangements (Nils Vigeland, Thesis Advisor)

Master of Music in Piano Performance

Manhattan School of Music, 1992

• Primary Teacher: Yoheved Kaplinsky

Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance

Rice University, Houston TX, Cum Laude, 1990

• Primary Teacher: John Perry

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science

Rice University, Cum Laude, 1990

Teaching Experience

Private Teacher, Aug 1995-Present

Private Studio ▪ New York, NY / Hartsdale, NY

• Teach piano, composition and music theory and coached musical theater, opera and song repertoire
• Teach, coach and record undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students.

Resident Teaching ArtistSept 1998-June 2008

Bloomingdale School of Music ▪ New York, NY

• Taught piano, composition and chamber music to students from beginner to post-graduate level
• Taught classes in music theory
• Performed regularly in solo and chamber recitals as faculty member
• Arbitrated end-of-year juries for Music Access Program (advanced students with full-scholarship)

Vocal Coach Sept 1996-May 2006

Manhattan School of Music ▪ New York, NY

• Coached undergraduate and graduate students
• Performed with students as musical director/accompanist for Community & Educational Outreach productions

Faculty Sept 1995-May 2006

Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division ▪ New York, NY

• Taught piano and chamber music to college-level students
• Taught classes in music theory and ear training
• Performed in faculty concerts

Adjunct Faculty Aug 2003-Dec 2003

Concordia College ▪ Bronxville, NY

• Taught
  and developed Music Seminar, an intensive writing course, covering the
  history of Western Classical Music from Medieval to present
• Student body: undergraduate juniors and seniors

Teaching ArtistAug 1998-May 1999

Creating Original Opera, Metropolitan Opera Guild ▪ New York, NY

• Collaborated with New York inner-city elementary school students to write, rehearse and perform original operatic productions
• Received 1999 ASCAP Award as Composer-in-Residence with Metropolitan Opera Guild

Other Professional Experience

Choral Director/Accompanist/Arranger Sept 2004-Present

Congregation Rodeph Sholom ▪ New York, NY

• Conducted, rehearsed and performed with post-graduate professional musicians
• Wrote choral and/or instrumental arrangements as needed

Recording Engineer/Editor 2003-Present

Home Studio & On-location ▪ New York, NY & Greater Metropolitan Area

• Produced
  digitally recorded and edited demo recordings for high school,
  undergraduate and graduate students, and professional musicians
• Services provided include accompanying, engineering, editing, mixing, and CD labeling/packaging

Orchestral Arranger/Copyist 2000-Present

Home Studio ▪ New York, NY

• Clients
  include: Klea Blackhurst, Chappaqua Orchestra, Coastal Carolina Chamber
  Music Festival, Ron Raines, Alberto Mizrahi, Benzion Miller, and Kip
  Wilburn
• 18 years of experience with Finale® for Windows New York, New York

International Experience

Adjudicator 2006

58th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival

Arranger/Producer/Pianist/Percussionist 2001

Recording with Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, for Michael Mao Dance

Assistant Conductor & Accompanist1997 & 1999

European Concert Tours, Packer Collegiate Institute Senior Chorus

Solo Recital Tour, Israel1993

Professional Affiliations

ASCAP Member2001-Present

• Recipient of 4 ASCAP Annual Plus Awards

The Actors Company Theatre, Adjunct Company Member1997-Present

• Composer and pianist for some 20 productions in NYC and PA
• Executive Producer, Composer & Pianist for company CD Play On: Music for the Actors Company Theatre

Locrian Chamber Players, Member1995-Present

• New
  music group, focused on presenting works composed no more than 10 years
  before the date of each performance both a commissioned composer and
  regular pianist for the group

Professional CDs

• Jane Eyre (EMF) Co-producer and Pianist, 2007, music by Nils Vigeland
• Golden Chants in America. Co-producer, Arranger and Pianist, 2005 (Commemorating 350 Years of Jewish Music) CD program performed live in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
• Play On: Music for The Actors Company Theatre. Featured Composer and Pianist, and Executive Producer, 2000
• Hie Up the Mountain (MSR Classics). Producer, Composer and Pianist, 1999(Recorded at the Banff Centre for the Arts Recording Residency) acclaimed as “a major contribution to the available body of music by the generation now making its mark in American music”
• Cantate! (AW Promotions), Pianist, 1998

Selected Performances

• Concert celebrating 175th Birthday of Brahms (NYC), 2008
• Concert celebrating 125th Birthdays of Stravinsky, Szymanowski, and Turina (NYC), 2007
• Solo Recital, Arium (NYC), 2006 – Works by Mozart, Enescu, Bartok, and Faiman (première)
• Complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven, with Lawrence Stomberg (NY, DE), 2005 & 2006
• Soloist, Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488, Chappaqua Orchestra, Michael Shapiro, conductor, 2005
• Jewish Music Concert, Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), 2005
• Solo recital, Chicago Cultural Center, 2005, Works by Ravel and Macdonald (première)
• Solo/chamber
  recital, Sunday Salon Series, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts;
  program of original compositions and arrangements, 2004
• Soloist, Faiman: Conversations with Piano and Orchestra (commission & première) Sinfonia da Camera, Ian Hobson, conductor, Radio broadcast on WILL-FM 90.9, 2002

Selected Commissions

• Locrian Chamber Players: Times Three for piano, 2006
• Sinfonia
  da Camera, Ian Hobson, conductor: Conversations with Piano and
  Orchestra, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, IL, 2002
• Michael
  Mao Dance: Firecracker, based on a recomposition of Tchaikovsky’s
  Nutcracker, original music, and music by other composers, Purchase, NY,
  2001
• Mirage
  Theatre Company, three productions in NYC, including Ambassador, based
  on Henry James’s The Ambassadors, a recomposition of the 1969 musical,
  2000-Present
• The
  Actors Company Theatre, over 20 productions, including the off-Broadway
  production/world première of Noël Coward’s Long Island Sound (2002),
  1997-Present

Awards and Honors

• ASCAP Awards, Metropolitan Opera Guild and Plus Awards, 1999-2006
• Doctoral fellowships & scholarships, Manhattan School of Music, 1993-95
• Prizewinner, Dora Zaslavsky Piano Competition, 1992
• Finalist, Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition, 1990