ASHER SEVERINI

Phone: 609 480 4122

Email: ashersev@me.com

A recipient of UC Santa Barbara’s Martin Kamen Fellowship Award and the Music Department’s Outstanding ServiceAward, Asher Severini holds multiple degrees, including a Master of Music degree in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from Westminster Choir College, a Bachelor of Music degree in theory with a strong emphasis on piano performance from New England Conservatory of Music, and a doctorate in Keyboard from University of California, Santa Barbara.

EDUCATOR:

2018-20                      Private Piano Teacher.

Taught beginning students the fundamentals – reading, rhythm, musicianship,

memorization using the Alfred Method as well as the Music Tree series

2015-2019                  TA Coach at University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, CA.

Coached vocalists and instrumentalists broadening their musicianship.

2014-15                       Piano Teaching assistant for Professor Ingrid Clarfield in Princeton, NJ (internship)

Assisted in teaching one of Clarfield’s private students weekly, preparing the student forcompetitions. Assisted in helping undergraduate students with technical problems in theirpieces for lessons.

2013-15                       Graduate Assistant Coach at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ.

Coached, and accompanied vocal students in all school activities and off campus competitions.

2014                            Piano Teacher at Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, NJ.

Taught young beginner in weekly 30 minute lessons     using unique methods to teach reading.

 
Chamber Music Performances:

2017                            Young Artist Duo Recital at University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, CA.

Chamber music of Bach, Schumann, and Shostakovich

20010                          West Branch International Music Festival

Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 by Dmitri Shostakovich and Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Violaand Piano by Charles Martin Loeffler.

2008                            Centrum Chamber Music Festival

Piano Quintet No.1 in C minor by Erno Dohnányi

2005                            Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, MA.

Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, B. 166 (Dumky) by Antonín Dvořák.

2009                            New England Conservatory Chamber Music in Boston, MA.

Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op.44 by Robert Schumann.

2018                            First United Methodist Church Music Series in Lompoc, CA.

Winterreise by Franz Schubert with Tyler Reece, Baritone.

2008                            Steve Reich Residency Performance at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music inBoston, MA.

Six Pianos by Steve Reich.

SOLO PERFORMANCES:

2009                            Elliott Carter Centennial Celebration at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA

Piano Sonata by Elliott Carter

2010                            Arthur Berger Memorial Celebration at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music inBoston, MA

Division of Heaven and Earth by Kati Agocs

2005                            Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, MA.

Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, Op. 26 by Samuel Barber

ACCOMPIANIST:

2015-present              Freelance Accompanist

Accompanied instrumental and vocal students of different skill levels and ages for various auditions and competitions.

2019                            Choral Accompanist at Music Academy of the West’s SING! in Santa Barbara,

CA.

Duties included playing vocal parts in rehearsals, warm-ups, learning and performing all repertoire. Performances included a concert with SING! choir at Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall and for the Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara centennialcelebration.

2016-19                       TA Accompanist at University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, CA.Accompanied instrumentalists and vocalists in lessons, performances, rehearsals, andcompetitions.

2017                            Staff Accompanist at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, MI.

Accompanied instrumentalists in lessons, performances, and competitions.

2013-15                       Graduate Assistant Accompanist at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ.Accompanied voice students in studio lessons, juries, rehearsals, and performances.

2007-08

Church Piano Accompanist at The FCCS in Boston, MA.

Learned and played church hymns in the Sunday School.

2006-07                       Piano Accompanist at Princeton Area Homeschool Choir in Lawrenceville, NJ.

Learned music and accompanied for rehearsals and performances.

ORGANIST AND PIANIST:

2018                            Pianist and Organist for First Church of Christ Scientist in Goleta, CA.

Duties included playing vocal parts in rehearsals, warm-ups, learning and performing allrepertoire.

2013-15                       Church Organist at FCCS in Trenton, NJ.

Learned weekly prelude offertory and postlude for Sunday services. Learned solo and accompanied church soloist every Sunday service. Learned and performed weekly hymns.Learned weekly prelude and postlude for Wednesday services.

2007-08                       Substitute Organist at FCCS in Princeton, NJ.

Learned and performed a prelude, postlude and offertory as well as hymns. Learned andperformed a piece  with a church soloist.

2004-06                       Chapel Substitute Organist, at Tenacre Foundation in Princeton, NJ.

Learned and performed a prelude, postlude and offertory as well as hymns. Learned andperformed a piece  with a church soloist.

DEGREES AND EDUCATION:

2021   University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

DMA in Keyboard, studies with Robert Koenig, and Paul Berkowitz

2018, 2012, 2009        Taubman Piano Technique

Studies with Yoriko Fieleke

2015                            Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ

MM in Piano Pedagogy and Performance, studies with Ingrid Clarfiekd

2013                            New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA

BM in Piano performance and Theory, studies with Deborah Stein

2008-18                       Masterclasses

Douglas Humphreys (2018), Marek Ruszczynski (2017), Igor Levit (2016),

Natalya Antonovitch (2015), Anne Epperson (2015), Margaret McDonald (2015),

Marina Lomazov (2014), Steven Spooner (2013), Joseph Kalichstein (2013),

Robert Koenig (2008), and Martin Beaver (2008).

2005-18                       Music Festivals

Atlantic Music Festival (2015, 2018), Music Fest Perugia, (2014), Summer Institute forContemporary Performance Practice (2010, 2011), Saarburg International Music Festival (2010), West Branch International Music Festival (2010), Golandsky Institute (2009), Centrum Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival (2008), Brevard Summer Institute andFestival (2007), and Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Piano (2005, 2006).

INFLUENTIAL TEACHERS:

Piano Teachers: Wha Kyun Byun, Russell Sherman, Gabriel Chodos, Maria ClodesJaguaribe, J.Y. Song, Ingrid Clarfield, James Goldsworthy, Robert Koenig, and Paul Berkowitz. Theory Teachers: Deborah Stein. Chamber Music Teachers: Robert Koenig, Martin Beaver, John Heiss, Mai Motobuchi, Maria Asteri-adou, Joseph Conyers, GabrielChodos, Julius Wirth, and Jonathan Bass.