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Hamilton Tescarollo

Hamilton Tescarollo

Assistant Professor of Music Director of Keyboard Studies

  • Phone: (260) 481-6723
  • Office:John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center, RC 215
  • Email: tescaroh@ipfw.edu

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Hamilton Tescarollo is the Director of Keyboard Studies at IPFW, where he teaches piano and related areas in addition to maintaining an active concert schedule.

Since his orchestral debut with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) and conductor Roberto Tibiriçá as a winner of this orchestra’s prestigious Young Soloists National Competition, Tescarollo has performed as a soloist and collaborative artist in the United States, Canada, Europe, and South America. Venues where he has performed include the Museo dos Condes de Castro Guimarães in Portugal, the Orford Festival in Canada, the Phoenix Art Museum, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts Auditorium, and the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo in Brazil. He has also performed as a soloist with a number of orchestras, including the USP Chamber Orchestra, the L’Estro Armonico Orchestra, and members of the Phoenix Symphony. He performs the mainstream as well as the early and avant garde repertory, and also frequently includes the music of Brazil (his native country) and other South American countries in his programs.

A dedicated teacher, he combines the musical and pianistic traditions passed on to him by his teachers with his own discoveries and a student-centered approach which aims at helping young musicians succeed in today’s changing world. Tescarollo received the “Teacher of the Year” award at the 2001 Schimmel-AZ Piano Young Artist Piano Competition, and his students have been prizewinners of many piano contests, including the Phoenix Symphony Guild Concerto Competition, the Chet and Ann Goldberg Young Musicians Competition, the Music Teachers National Association Competition—AZ state round, and the Sewannee Summer Music Center Concerto Competition. In addition, they have been awarded numerous scholarships to study at summer camps such as Interlochen, Brevard, Idylwild, Adamant, Sewannee, and others.

Tescarollo has held teaching positions at Santa Marcelina College, The Municipal School of Music of São Paulo and Arizona State University, where he served most recently as a Visiting Professor of Piano. He is also a sought-after master class presenter and adjudicator, having been featured in these capacities at events throughout the country and abroad. He has also presented workshops and lectures for a number of Teachers Organizations, including a panel discussion at the 2005 World Piano Pedagogy Conference. His commitment to promoting young musicians has resulted in his association with competitions and other organizations that serve this purpose: he has chaired the East Valley Music Teachers Association Piano Competition and has served as event coordinator for the Arizona Young Artist Piano Festival and the Bösendorfer & Schimmel USASU International Piano Competitions. He has also been a member of the Arizona Young Artist Committee.

Among the distinctions he has received are sponsorships by the Secretary of Culture of São Paulo and the Vitae Foundation, a grant from the Arizona Community Foundation, and two first prizes at the Escola Municipal de Música de São Paulo’s piano competition. In addition, he earned the second place at the National Mozart Competition sponsored by the University of São Paulo, in the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death. Dr. Tescarollo received Piano Performance degrees from Arizona State University (D.M.A. and Master’s), Faculdade Santa Marcelina (B.M.), and Escola Municipal de Música de São Paulo (Diploma). His main teachers include Gilberto Tinetti (a pupil of Magda Tagliaferro, Alfred Cortot, and Friedrich Wuehrer) and Caio Pagano (also a pupil of Tagliaferro, as well as of Conrad Hansen and Carl Engel). He has also studied with Robert Hamilton, Sandra Abrão and Paulo Bergamo, and has coached with Menahem Pressler, Paul Badura-Skoda, Lazar Berman, Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Helena Sá e Costa, and Maria João Pires, among others. He has recently recorded a CD with Venezuelan clarinetist Jorge Montilla, with music by Central and South American composers, to be released in the near future.

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