Students of Dr. Nies have been winners of the Vanderbilt Concerto Competition eleven of the past twelve years (1995-2006), including three winners in 2004. Since 1996 they have participated in master classes at Blair with Emanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Misha Dichter, Lee Luvisi, Seymour Lipkin, Robert Weirich, Gilbert Kalish, and Menahem Pressler, as well as with Paul Badura-Skoda at the 1998 MTNA National Convention. Two of his Blair majors performed solo recitals in Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in 2003. Students both attended and have been accepted to graduate study at several major music schools, including Juilliard, Eastman, Cleveland Institute, Michigan, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Mannes, Manhattan and Peabody. Summer music programs including Aspen, Eastern Music Festival, the Van Cliburn Foundation, and Fontainebleau, France. Member of faculty: Yale University School of Music, 1980-1986. Blair School since 1991.
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Students of Dr. Nies have been winners of the Vanderbilt Concerto Competition eleven of the past twelve years (1995-2006), including three winners in 2004. Since 1996 they have participated in master classes at Blair with Emanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Misha Dichter, Lee Luvisi, Seymour Lipkin, Robert Weirich, Gilbert Kalish, and Menahem Pressler, as well as with Paul Badura-Skoda at the 1998 MTNA National Convention. Two of his Blair majors performed solo recitals in Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in 2003. Students both attended and have been accepted to graduate study at several major music schools, including Juilliard, Eastman, Cleveland Institute, Michigan, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Mannes, Manhattan and Peabody. Summer music programs including Aspen, Eastern Music Festival, the Van Cliburn Foundation, and Fontainebleau, France. Member of faculty: Yale University School of Music, 1980-1986. Blair School since 1991.
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