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IBLA Foundation Chair Baronessa Mariuccia Zerilli Marimo' at Carnegie Weill Hall surrounded by IBLA Winners
2009 IBLA Bartok Competition Award recipient and Ravel Award recipient pianist Terry Eder, USA
American pianist Terry Eder is a prize winner of both the 2008 Ibla Grand Prize Competition and Bartók-Prokofiev-Kabalevsky Competition. She was presented by the Ibla Foundation in a 2009 U.S. concert tour, which included a performance at Carnegie Hall. Terry is hailed as an exceptional advocate of Bartók’s piano music. Her expertise in Bartók’s music won her a scholar’s grant to Budapest from the International Research and Exchanges Board, sponsored jointly by the U.S. and Hungarian governments. In residency at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, she researched and performed 20th century Hungarian piano music under the guidance of acclaimed pianist and conductor, Zoltán Kocsis. She also learned to speak Hungarian.
Ms. Eder was selected by Artists International Presentations to perform her New York solo recital début in 2004 at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. She was subsequently honored with Artists International Presentation’s Outstanding Alumni Award in Piano and Lincoln Center recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2006, and the 35th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni-Winners Award in Piano and a recital at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in 2008. The critics lavished praise on these performances, describing her 2004 debut as “excellent, perceptive, sensitive, idiomatic, clear, rhythmically secure, solid, convincing and vigorous” (Harris Goldsmith, New York Concert Review Summer 2004). Her Alice Tully Hall recital impressed as a “fascinating performance full of life and risk” in which “those lucky souls were rewarded with an exceptional recital from an artist who transmits the music she plays with an entirely natural authority.” Ms. Eder was further described as “a big pianist with big ideas and a warmly engaging rapport.” (Timothy Gilligan, New York Concert Review Summer 2006). Her Bartók performances at Zankel Hall were described as “mesmerizing” (Anthony Aibel, New York Concert Review Summer 2008).
Terry Eder began piano studies at age four in her native Detroit. She was first presented in recital at age 16 by the Detroit Art Institute as winner of the Louise Smith Petersen Memorial Fund Award. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music degree with Distinction from the School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, where she was appointed Associate Instructor. She also studied at The Banff Centre, Aspen Music School, and Festival Hill at Round Top, Texas, and has taken master classes with such luminaries as Leon Fleisher, Gyorgy Sebok, Aube Tzerko, and David Burge. Ms. Eder, who has taught piano independently for more than 20 years, recently gave a seminar on the piano music of Bartók at The Berklee College of Music.
Ms. Eder’s recent New York area performance venues include Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Hall, Bargemusic, the Tenri Cultural Center, the Easton (PA) Loft, Wagner College, St. John’s in the Village, and the House of the Association of the New York City Bar. She recently performed as soloist in the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Lawyers’ Orchestra of New York City under Conductor David Bernard. Ms. Eder has performed guest recitals at college campuses across the U.S., among them Dartmouth and Oberlin, and concert tours aboard the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. Her performances on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series at the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art were broadcast live over National Public Radio.
Following in the footsteps of such musicians as Telemann, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, all of whom studied law, Ms. Eder earned her Juris Doctorate in 1999. She was honored with the Dean’s Special Achievement Award in recognition of her recitals to benefit Fordham Law School’s public fellowship programs, and she was the subject of a front-page feature article in the New York Law Journal in March 1999. Terry has litigated civil cases before New York tribunals, has served as in-house counsel to her husband’s architecture firm, and has also undertaken international human rights work on a pro bono basis. She is a board member of the Leschetizky Association, a non-profit musical organization that aims to perpetuate the ideals of teaching and piano playing of Theodor Leschetizky.
IBLA Winners Adalberto Riva, pianist, Elin Kolev, violinist, George King, composer & pianist, Dr. Kenneth
Bowles, Chair, Music Department, Minot University in North Dakota, Jill Kemp, recorder, Terry Eder, pianist,
Gwylim Janssens, pianist, Lestari Scholtes, pianist
IBLA Winners Julija Bal, pianist, George King, composer & pianist, Jill Kemp, recorder,Terry Eder, pianist,
Dr. Salvatore Moltisanti, IBLA Foundation President, Lestari Scholtes, pianist, Anna Rutkowaska Schock, pianist