The Costa Rica Piano Festival is open for advanced piano students of all ages and nationalities. Participants will have the opportunity to take academic courses, private lessons and master classes with highly renowned artists as well as perform in major concert halls. In addition, the festival will offer the unique experience of exploring the natural wonders of Costa Rica.

Selected students will have the unique opportunity to perform a movement of a classical concerto with the Costa Rica Piano Festival Symphony Orchestra. A separate application is required.

Founder and Executive Director
- Lanzo Luconi

Assistant Director
- Luis Monge

2018 Guest Artists and Faculty:
- Sean Kennard
- Vladimir Khomyakov
- Sergey Kuznetsov

So honored to serve as a faculty at Costa Rica Piano Festival this upcoming summer 2017 among such outstanding pianists and teachers as Gerardo Teissonnière from Cleveland Institute of Music, Benjamin Loh from Singapore and the director of the festival Lanzo Luconi. Students interested in participating please contact me for details. Thank you.

A full day of piano music,master classes and recitals.

If you are a fan of piano music I invite you to Lone Star's Piano "Super" Saturday festival on November 1st. It will be a full day of piano music, student recitals, master class with an outstanding teacher Tamas Ungar, movie and guest artists.

MUSICAL EVENING WITH MAESTRO HANS GRAF DEDICATED TO THE MUSIC BY PROKOFIEV.
Program:
Presentation by Hans Graf
Selected pieces by Sergey Prokofiev
Performer: Sergey Kuznetsov – piano
Sergey Kuznetsov is a Professor of Piano at Lone Star College. He had won many prestigious international piano competitions. Sergey had performed numerous concerts around the world and organized chamber music ensembles in France, Israel, China, Russia and Canada. He is also an active educator. Besides teaching at Long Star College, he performs with master classes, recitals and lectures in colleges, universities and schools around the world.

Dear friends! If you are in Houston,TX I am very delighted to invite you to come to Yury Martynov's Recital at Lone Star College-Montgomery on February 23rd, 4PM in the Music Building Recital Hall. Yury Martynov is a Professor of Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, co-founder of the Early Music Department, 1st prize winner of Mozart International Competition in Salzburg, Maria Canals in Barcelona, Epinal in France. He is an expert in non- standard advanced piano repertoire and will present Beethoven's Symphony No.3 "Eroica" transcribed for piano by Ferenz Liszt in addition to Prokofiev's 5th Sonata and Schumann's "Carnival of Vienna". The attendance is free, donations are welcomed. The address is:
3200 College Park Drive, Conroe, Texas 77384

A true international group, The Emerald Trio brings together musical traditions from Russia, Lithuania, and Québec. Each of the three musicians are well established in their own countries and have played all over the world as solo and chamber music performers.

The idea for the trio was born in the summer of 2011, at the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado, after a string quartet performance that brought together Aleksandr Snytkin and Marie-Thaïs Levesque Oliver, musicians of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Sergey Kuznetsov joins the trio for the new concert season, he is a Piano Faculty at Lone Star College - Montgomery Music Department.

Sergey Kuznetsov,piano
Aleksandr Snytkin,violin
Marie-Thaïs Levesque Oliver,cello

A true international group, The Emerald Trio brings together musical traditions from Russia, Lithuania, and Québec. Each of the three musicians are well established in their own countries and have played all over the world as solo and chamber music performers.

The idea for the trio was born in the summer of 2011, at the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado, after a string quartet performance that brought together Aleksandr Snytkin and Marie-Thaïs Levesque Oliver, musicians of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Sergei Kuznetsoff joins the trio for the new concert season, he is a Piano Faculty at Lone Star College - Montgomery Music Department.

PROKOFIEV: The Unfinished Diary. Film by Yosif Feyginberg. 6:30 PM
Sergey Prokofiev's Piano Music Recital. 7:30 PM

Three potential Cliburn 2013 competitors Misha Berestnev (Russia), Anna Bulkina (USA) and Marcin Koziak (Poland) will perform at Lone Star College- Montgomery on February, 6th at 2:30 PM in the Recital Hall. All three are students of an outstanding Professor of Piano Dr. Tamas Ungar, who has been named "Teacher of the Year" by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) in 2012.
Tickets are FREE, but reserve it by calling at 936.271.6246