All students should be working on the following technical items, where appropriate.  Please consult the Piano Area Guide for technique requirements for your level.

Hanon:  Virtuoso pianist, exercises 1-20.  The first 10 should be done in G. B. style, holding the first note of the pattern and repeating the last half of the measure so that instead of 2/4, it becomes 4/4.

Czerny:  School of Velocity, Book I

Peskanov:  Russian Technical Regime (at the appropriate level)
            Scales:  single notes; double notes (3rs and 6ths)
            Octave & Broken Octave Scales: two octaves
            Chord Segments:  Blocked, Broken, Russian Broken
            Arpeggios

Brahms:  selected exercises

Chopin:  Etudes

Tiffany Claiborne—Senior Recital Program
Bach:  Prelude & Fugue in d minor, WTC, Book I
Mozart:  Sonata, K. 332, (complete)
Chopin: Etude, Op. 10 No. 3 in E Major
Rachmaninoff:  Etude Tableaux, Op. 33 No. 8 in g minor
Prokofieff:  Suggestion Diabloiques (selected)

Technique:  Level 6

Jonas Dawson
Bach:  Italian Concerto, Third movement
Beethoven:  Sonata, Op. 2, No. 3, 1st movement
Rachmaninoff:  Prelude Op. 23 No. 4 in d minor
Bolcom:  Serpent's Kiss (Ghost Rad)
Chopin:  Etude, Op. 10, No. 12

Technique:  Level 6

Emily De Troye
Handel:  The Harmonious Blacksmith
Haydn:  Sonata, Hob. XVI/23 in F Major (complete
Rachmaninoff:  Prelude in E-flat
Debussy:   Pour le Piano (Suite)-complete
Etudes:  Czerny, Heller
Technique:  Level 5

Kari Edge—Senior Recital Program
Bach:  French Suite in b minor
Beethoven:  Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2 (complete)
Rachmaninoff:  Prelude Op. 23 in D Major
Chopin:  Etude, Op. 10 No. 3
Debussy:  Soirée dans Grenade, Jardins sous la pluie

Technique:  Level 7

Charity Farrow—Senior Recital Program
Bach:  Prelude & Fugue in a minor, WTC, Bk. II
Haydn:  Sonata in b minor (complete)
Chopin:  Polonaise, Op. 26 in c# minor
                 Waltz, Op. 64 in c# minor
                  Prelude, Op. 45 in c# minor
Bartók:  Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm

Technique:  Level 5-6

Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez—Senior Recital Program
Scarlatti:  Sonata in E Major, L. 23, Sonata in f# minor, L. 421
Haydn:  Sonata No. 50 in C major (complete)
Chopin:  Scherzo, Op. 39
Ginastera:  Sonata No. 1 (complete)

Technique:  Level 6-7

Heather Helton
Bach:  Fantasia in c minor
Beethoven:  Sonata, Op. 13
Liszt: Liebestraüme
Gershwin:  Three Preludes

Technique:  5

James Miller-Senior Recital Program
Bach:  Prelude & Fugue in c minor, WTC, Book II
Mozart:  Fantasy in c minor, K. 475
Liszt:  Sposalizio
Ives:  Alcotts, from The Concord Sonata
Ravel:  Oiseaux Tristes, Vallees des Cloches
Lokumbe:  Jon Brown & Blue
Stravinsky:  Danse sacrale from Rite of Spring for piano four-hands

Technique:  Level 6

Trevor Rowland-Junior Recital program
Bach:  Prelude & Fugue in d minor, WTC, Bk. I
Beethoven:  Sonata, Op. 10 No. 3
Chopin:  Etude, Op. 10, No. 3
Debussy:  The Sunken Cathedral

Technique:  Level 5

Jason Solounias—Senior Recital & MTNA Competition Program
Bach:  French Suite No. 5
Beethoven:  Sonata, Op. 78
Brahms:  Piano Works, Op. 119
Messaien:  Preimere Communion de la Vierge