Fred Karpoff

Karpoff graduated from Walnut Hills High School{{Cite web|url=http://www.walnuthillseagles.com/news-pdfs/2015/2015_ANNUAL_FUND_piece.pdf|title=Walnut Hill Alumni {{!}} Walnut Hills High School|website=walnuthillseagles.com/#gsc.tab=0|access-date=2020-06-28}} in Cincinnati, Ohio and received his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University,{{Cite web|url=https://alumnius.net/northwestern_univers-8291-year-1985-page5#alumni|title=Northwestern Alumni {{!}} Alumni US|website=alumnius.net|access-date=2020-06-28}} studying under Robert Weirich. He earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the Peabody Institute,{{Cite web|url=https://alumnius.net/the_johns_hopkins_un-8561-year-1992-page2#alumni|title=Johns Hopkins Alumni {{!}} Alumni US|website=alumnius.net|access-date=2020-06-28}} while studying with Ann Schein Carlyss, Leon Fleisher, and Yoheved Kaplinsky. He performed in master classes for Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Paul Badura-Skoda, Lazar Berman, Gabriel Chodos, and Boris Berman, and received extensive coaching from Richard Goode and Karl Ulrich Schnabel.

Karpoff has won prizes in several international piano competitions (San Antonio,{{Cite web|url=https://musicalbridges.org/1991-competition/|title=Musical Bridges {{!}} The Gurwitz International Piano Competition|website=MBAW|access-date=2020-06-28}} Competition Internationale,{{Cite web|url=http://internationalpianoinstitute.com/page7.html|title=Competition Internationale {{!}} The World International Piano Competition|website=internationalpianoinstitute.com/index.html

|access-date=2020-06-28}} Frinna Awerbuch{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/classified/paid-notice-deaths-awerbuch-frinna.html|title=Obituaries {{!}} Obituaries|website=nytimes.com|access-date=2020-06-28}}) and was a semi-finalist in the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hei7_1tzuPQ&t=342s|title=YouTube {{!}} Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze Op. 6: Karpoff: Piano |website=youtube.com|access-date=2020-06-28}} He served as a USIA Artistic Ambassador to Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Ireland.{{Cite web|url=https://faberinstitute.org/clinician-recital-fred-karpoff/|title=Fred Karpoff {{!}} Faber Piano Institute|website=faberinstitute.org|access-date=2020-06-29}}

Chamber music and vocal coaching have been central to Karpoff's career. He has held residencies at festivals in Siena and Montecatini, and given numerous performances at the Skaneateles Festival{{Cite web|url=https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/music-department-voice-and-piano-recital-on-sunday-nov-4|title=Music Department Voice and Piano Recital on Sunday, Nov. 4 {{!}} Hamilton College |website=hamilton.edu/|access-date=2020-06-28}}

in central New York. He has performed with other musicians, including violinists Curtis Macomber, Steven Copes, Mark Fewer and Harumi Rhodes; violist Michelle LaCourse, cellists Clive Greensmith, Peter Rejto and, Shauna Rolston; clarinetist Larry Combs, flutist Marina Piccinini, and hornist Eric Ruske. He had a longstanding professional duo with his wife, soprano Rebecca Karpoff. From 2007 to 2011, he was the pianist of the Boccaccio Trio{{Cite web|url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2009/01/16/newhouse-school-college-of-visual-and-performing-arts-to-celebrate-release-of-3-d-piano-with-special-concert-event/|title=Newhouse School, College of Visual and Performing Arts to celebrate release of "3D Piano" with special concert event {{!}} Syracuse University News|website=Syracuse.edu|access-date=2020-06-29}}

with violinist Jeremy Mastrangelo and cellist David Ledoux. He performed as soloist in six concerti with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/syrsymph/docs/sso_jan_issue/22 |title=Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Jan 9 Program {{!}} Central New York Community Foundation Family Series|website=issuu.com|access-date=2020-06-29}}

from 2000 to 2010, including in the ensemble's final Contributors Concert. An international Steinway artist,{{Cite web|url=https://www.steinway.com/artists/fred-karpoff|title=Steinway Artist Fred Karpoff {{!}} Steinway Artists|website=steinway.com|access-date=2020-06-29}} Karpoff has also performed in France, Italy, China, India, Finland, and Canada.

He released Heroic Tales: Piano Music of Edward MacDowell{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/heroic-tales-piano-music-of-edward-macdowell-mw0001364453 |title=Heroic Tales {{!}} All Music|website=allmusic.com|access-date=2020-06-29}} on the Sonatabop label, and Renegade Classics issued his live Beethoven Trio performances with musicians at the Skaneateles Festival,{{Cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/beethoven-trios-live-at-the-skaneateles-festival/799963094|title=Beethoven Trios Live at the Skaneateles Festival {{!}} Apple Music|website=music.apple.com|access-date=2020-06-29}} in addition to the albums This Moment{{Cite web|url=https://open.spotify.com/album/6qpi9b8QKJ2jX98P6QwPo4|title=This Moment: Rebecca Karpoff {{!}} Spotify|website=spotify.com|access-date=2020-06-29}} and Snapshots{{Cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/snapshots/808538818|title=Snapshots: Rebecca Karpoff {{!}} Spotify|website=music.apple.com|access-date=2020-06-29}} with soprano Rebecca Karpoff.

Karpoff began his teaching career as an assistant at Peabody and as a faculty associate at Johns Hopkins University. He taught for one year at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County before accepting a professorship at Syracuse University in 1991. Karpoff served as a Visiting Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music in the fall of 2011. In 2013, he taught in Strasbourg, France as part of Syracuse University's study-abroad music program.

Karpoff presents workshops and master classes throughout North America and abroad, including appearances at MTNA Conferences,{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtna.org/Conference/MTNA/Engage/Conferences/Handouts/2019/Tuesday.aspx |title=MTNA Schedule March 2019 {{!}} Music Teachers National Association|website=mtna.org|access-date=2020-06-29}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtna.org/Conference/MTNA/Engage/Conferences/Handouts/2018/Sunday.aspx |title=MTNA Schedule March 2018 {{!}} Music Teachers National Association|website=mtna.org|access-date=2020-06-29}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtna.org/Conference/MTNA/Engage/Conferences/Handouts/2017/Monday.aspx|title=2017 March Schedule{{!}} Music Teachers National Association|website=mtna.org|access-date=2020-06-29}}{{Cite web|url= https://www.mtna.org/Conference/MTNA/Engage/Conferences/Handouts/2016/Monday.aspx |title=MTNA Schedule {{!}} Music Teachers National Association|website=mtna.org|access-date=2020-06-29}} the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy,{{Cite web|url=http://keyboardpedagogy.org/about-the-conference-2017/workshops |title=The Frances Clark Center NKCP Workshop Sessions {{!}} The Frances Clark Center|website=keyboardpedagogy.org/}} and the East-West Asia Conference.{{Cite web|url=https://pianoadventures.com/events/2018-piano-adventures-china-convention/|title=2018 Piano Adventures China Convention {{!}} Faber Piano Adventures|website=pianoadventures.com|access-date=2020-06-29}} He is regularly featured as the conference artist and clinician for state and provincial music teachers’ associations, including those in Texas,{{Cite web|url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2011/09/12/karpoff-presents-at-several-teaching-conferences/|title=Karpoff presents at several teaching conferences {{!}} Syracuse University Arts & Culture |website=news.syr.edu/section/arts-culture/|access-date=2020-06-29}} California,{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtac.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-MTAC-Convention-Schedule1.pdf|title=2014 MTAC Convention Schedule {{!}} MTAC |website=mtac.org|access-date=2020-06-29}}{{Cite web|url=http://mtac.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tentative-Convention-Schedule-03-28-18.pdf|title=2018 MTAC Convention Schedule {{!}} MTAC |website=mtac.org|access-date=2020-06-29}} Oregon,{{Cite web|url=https://oregonmta.org/images/2013%20Music%20News-February.pdf|title=2013 OMTA Music News {{!}} Oregon MTA |website=oregonmta.org|access-date=2020-06-29}} Oklahoma,{{Cite web|url=https://www.oklahomamta.org/sites/omta/uploads/documents/OMTA-State-onference-2012-Program-Booklet.pdf|title=2012 Oklahoma Music Teachers Association Conference Program Book {{!}} Oklahoma MTA |website=oklahomamta.org|access-date=2020-06-29}} Kansas,{{Cite web|url=http://signal.baldwincity.com/news/2012/jun/06/kmta-host-two-concerts-baker-university/|title=KMTA to host two concerts at Baker University {{!}} Baldwin City Signal |website=signal.baldwincity.com/|access-date=2020-06-29}} New York,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nysmta.org/symposium|title=NYSMTA Competition Day Mini-Pedagogy Symposium 2019 {{!}} New York State MTA |website=nysmta.org|access-date=2020-06-29}} Pennsylvania,{{Cite web|url=https://www.pamusicteachers.org/wp-content/uploads/PMTA_News_Dec2014.pdf|title=PMTA President's Message {{!}} Pennsylvania MTA |website=pamusicteachers.org/|access-date=2020-06-29}} Utah,{{Cite web|url=https://utahmta.org/forms/form543.pdf|title=Utah Music Teachers Association {{!}} Utah MTA |website=utahmta.org/cgi-bin/umta.cgi|access-date=2020-06-29}} Alabama,{{Cite web|url=http://almta.org/newsletters/36/Soundboard%20Op%2065-2%20March%202018.pdf|title=Soundboard: A Publication of the Alabama MTA {{!}} Alabama MTA |website=almta.org|access-date=2020-06-29}} Alberta,{{Cite web|url=https://pianoadventures.com/events/alberta-piano-teachers-conference/|title=Alberta Piano Teachers Conference {{!}} Faber Piano Adventures |website=pianoadventures.org|access-date=2020-06-29}} North Carolina,{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncmta.org/images/2019_Fall_Conference_Schedule_full.pdf|title=Sixty-first annual NCMTA State Conference Schedule {{!}} North Carolina MTA |website=ncmta.org|access-date=2020-06-29}} and South Carolina.{{Cite web|url=https://www.converse.edu/event/fred-karpoff-piano/|title=Fred Karpoff, Piano {{!}} Converse College |website=converse.edu|access-date=2020-06-29}}

In 2007, Karpoff began working with documentary filmmaker and Syracuse University professor Richard Breyer on 3-D Piano: The Three-Dimensional Pianist,{{Cite web|url=http://wandbproductions.com/|title=The 3-D Piano Method {{!}} W&B Productions |website=wandbproductions.com|access-date=2020-06-29}} a six-part series on piano teaching and playing, featuring a demonstration of Karpoff's 3-D Method. Released in 2009, 3-D Piano was awarded the Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award by Music Teachers National Association in 2011.{{Cite web|url= https://www.mtnafoundation.org/awards/frances-clark-keyboard-pedagogy-award/|title=Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award {{!}} MTNA Foundation |website=mtnafoundation.org|access-date=2020-06-29}}

In 2014, Karpoff created Entrada Piano Technique,{{Cite web|url=https://entradapiano.com/|title=Entrada Piano Technique {{!}} Entrada Piano Technique |website=entradapiano.com|access-date=2020-06-29}} an online video resource designed to promote effortless piano technique. From 2017 to 2019, he served as Director of Professional Development for the Faber Piano Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://faberpiano.com/about/|title=Faber Technique & Artistry {{!}} Faber Piano Institute |website=faberinstitute.org|access-date=2020-06-29}} In 2020, he relaunched Entrada Piano Technique as Entrada Piano.

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