<p>Shameless plug for my school:</p>
<p>UT-Austin only recently launched a collaborative piano program for Masters degree seeking students. This program is headed by Anne Epperson who is nationally respected both as a collaborative artist and educator (she was also formerly a collaborative pianist for Heifetz when she was at USC). She has set up similar programs very successfully at numerous schools around the nation.</p>
<p>All the students in the program are at a very high performance level and the opportunities for working with artists of all disciplines in the music school are tremendous. From personal experience working with Professor Epperson, she is one of the most professional and encouraging artists I’ve ever worked with. She has that bizarre ability of knowing my part (viola) better than myself (a bit like how Leon Fleisher intimately knows the right hand parts of Beethoven sonatas with his left hand).</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.music.utexas.edu/department/degreePDF/MMPiano_Collaborative.pdf[/url]”>http://www.music.utexas.edu/department/degreePDF/MMPiano_Collaborative.pdf</a></p>
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