Adult Piano Seminar, Session 2
Pianists of all levels are invited to participate in an intensive seminar exploring the enormously rich solo piano repertoire. Through daily master classes, private lessons, discussion panels, and studio performance classes, students develop their skills in a friendly, supportive, and stimulating community.
Join us for Session 1 as well!
Adult Piano Seminar, Session 1 precedes Session 2 on August 7 to August 11. Attend both and save $100!
MORE INFORMATION
Fees, Faculty and Schedules
TUITION:
$1,150 per session
$2,200 both sessions
APPLICATION FEE:
$85
UPGRADES & ADD ONS:
Private Cabin is $350 for one or both sessions (same price).
Bedding $75 for one or both sessions (same price).
Non-participant room and board is an additional $275 per guest for the entirety of the seminar.

Hsing-ay Hsu
APS Faculty (Session 2 only)
Instruments: Piano Education: M.M., Yale; B.M., JuilliardSince making her stage debut at age 4, Chinese pianist Hsing-ay Hsu (“Sing-I Shoo”) has performed at such notable venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, and abroad in Asia and Europe. A Steinway Artist, Ms. Hsu is winner of the William Kapell International Piano Competition Silver Medal, the Ima Hogg National Competition Gold Medal, The Juilliard School’s highest honor for a pianist- the William Petschek Recital Award, a McCrane Foundation Artist Grant, a Paul & Daisy Soros Graduate Fellowship Award, and a Gilmore Young Artist Award, among others. She was also named a US Presidential Scholar of the Arts by President Clinton at the White House, and a “2011 Pathmaker” by the Denver Post.
A versatile concerto soloist performing Bach to Barber, she is described by the Washington Post as full of “power, authority, and self-assurance.” Concerto collaborations include the Houston Symphony Orchestra as first-prizewinner of the Ima Hogg National Competition, the Baltimore Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, Pacific Symphony (CA), Colorado Springs, Florida West Coast, Fort Collins, New Jersey, Waterbury(CT), China National, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Xiamen orchestras. Television and radio feature broadcasts include Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion Live from Tanglewood (for a 10,000+ live audience members and 3.9 million broadcast audience), NPR’s Performance Today with Martin Goldsmith, TCI cablevision’s Grand Piano Recital (CA), CPR’s Colorado Spotlight, China Central National TV, Hong Kong Phoenix TV, and Danish National Radio. She has recorded CD/DVD’s for Pacific Records, Albany Records, and Nutmeg Press labels.
An advocate of new music, she has given numerous world premieresincluding Ezra Laderman’s Piano Sonata No.3 and Beshert; Ned Rorem’s Aftermath (2002) for baritone and piano trio; Daniel Kellogg’s scarlet thread at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and his Momentum, which she commissioned for the 1998 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival; as well as Du MingXin’s Piano Concerto No.3 at the Gulangyu International Piano Festival and National Tour. Chamber music appearances include Carnegie Weill Hall, Bargemusic in New York, the Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Gardner Museum in Boston, the Detroit Art Museum, Denmark’s Viborg Hall, Taiwan’s Novel Hall, and a 2007 all-stars gala in Hong Kong for the 10th anniversary of the reunification. Recent projects include the ongoing multi-media recital China through the Lens of Piano Music, co-directing/performing in the George Crumb at 80 Music Festival, and producing/performing the Olivier Messiaen Centennial series.
Born in Beijing, Hsu studied piano with her parents and her uncle Fei-Ping Hsu, and later with Herbert Stessin at Juilliard and Claude Frank at Yale. She also trained in the fellowship programs at the Tanglewood Music Center, Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute, the Aldeburgh Britten-Pears Programme (UK), the Aspen Music Festival, and abroad.
Until recently, Ms. Hsu was the Artistic Director for Pendulum New Music Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has taught piano for numerous universities including the University of Colorado in Boulder and Ohio University, and has lectured for University of Denver Enrichment, the Denver Art Museum, the Friends of Chamber Music Denver salon series, the MTNA national conference, and the DAMTA Lecture Series. She created the Conscious Listening method to give audiences and pianists a broader perspective on the art of performance. An educator, adjudicator, teacher of prize-winning students, and CSMTA’s College Faculty Chair, her teaching honors include the NFMC Ouida Keck Award.
Ms. Hsu resides in New York City with her husband, composer and Young Concert Artists president Daniel Kellogg, and one daughter. Her favorite pastimes are dance and improv theater. Her concert and seminar schedule and recordings are available at hsingayhsu.com.
Check out Ms. Hsu’s most recent virtual seminar: Hear That?, a 6-week tonal analysis intensive for lifelong learners, music teachers, and performers of any instrument!

SoYoung Lee
Executive Director, APS Faculty, RRMA Faculty
Instruments: Piano Education: D.M.A., University of California – Santa Barbara; M.M., University of Southern CaliforniaSoYoung Lee, Executive/Music Director at Rocky Ridge Music Center, received her Doctorate in Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has held director positions at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory Adult Education & Preparatory Department, Millikin University Preparatory Division, and the Boulder Arts Academy & Boulder Ballet. A strong believer in the concept of artist as entrepreneur, she cofounded two organizations: Colorado-based AirTurn, a company dedicated to empowering musicians through technology; and Notes at 9,000 at Winter Park, a multi-genre music competition that launches emerging musicians by providing concert opportunities, funding, and mentoring. She is passionate about building community through the arts, and serves currently as a trustee on the board of Boulder County Arts Alliance and as a member of the Estes Arts Presents Task Force.
An award-winning pianist and a Regents scholar, SoYoung is a recipient of the Ernő Dohnányi Piano Prize and the Gwendolyn Koldofsky Accompanying Fellowship at University of Southern California. She recently released a CD, In This World, with flutist Claudia Anderson. Equally at home as a teacher, she served on the music faculty at Millikin University and State University of New York, Fredonia, and was a visiting Piano Pedagogy faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. SoYoung enjoys her multi-faceted career as a performing artist, administrator, teacher, producer, and arts advocate.

David Korevaar
JAS and APS Faculty
Instruments: PianoDavid Korevaar, whose playing has been called a “musical epiphany” by Gramophone Magazine, performs an extensive repertoire as a soloist and chamber musician around the US and internationally. In addition to his teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he holds the Peter and Helen Weil fellowship in piano and where he has been named Distinguished Research Lecturer (2016), he is an active performer and recording artist. In the spring of 2016, Korevaar spent two weeks teaching in Kabul at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM). The 2016-2017 season also included two tours to Brazil and a recital and master classes in Mexico City. In Fall 2017, he conducted and performed two of Mozart’s piano concertos in Boulder, bringing home a skill picked up in Japan and Brazil over the last several years. Korevaar’s extensive discography includes numerous solo and chamber music recordings, most recently a recording of Lowell Liebermann’s Piano Music since 2000 and a world premiere recording of piano music by the early twentieth-century Italian composer Luigi Perrachio. Other recent releases include a disc of chamber works by Tibor Harsányi with Charles Wetherbee (Naxos), and a Chopin recital on MSR, Hindemith’s three Piano Sonatas and Suite “1922” (MSR) and two Schubert Sonatas (MSR). In addition, his collaboration with members of the Takacs Quartet has resulted in a number of releases, including a disc of Brahms with violist Geraldine Walther and cellist Andras Fejer (MSR), two Beethoven Violin Sonatas with violinist Edward Dusinberre (Decca), and Hindemith’s music for Viola and Piano with Geraldine Walther (MSR). Korevaar also writes on various musical topics, with a focus on French music.
- If you applied and were accepted to a program last year, you do not need to reapply for that same program. Please let us know as soon as possible about your desire to attend the 2021 program in question.
- In order to secure your placement in the program, a 50% deposit of your tuition is due within 7 days of receiving your acceptance letter. Your final deposit is due a month before the beginning of your program.
- Any tuition paid is nonrefundable.
- If the camps are mandated to close by the CDC, state, or local authorities, you will receive a full tuition refund if the program has not yet started. If the camp is mandated to close during a program, your tuition refund will be prorated.*
- As a safeguard during this uncertain time, you are required to purchase a third party tuition and travel insurance plan which will protect your investment should a student choose to cancel ahead of time or is unable to complete the camp. We have partnered with Travel Insured International, which comes highly recommended by AM Skier, Rocky Ridge’s insurance provider. Regardless of which insurance company you choose, please provide proof of insurance prior to making your final tuition payment to Rocky Ridge.
- We will be updating this policy list regularly. Please continue to visit this list for the most recent policy updates and COVID-19 safety protocols that will be required prior to and during the camps.
*Except for the $85 application fee, which is nonrefundable.
August 7
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM: Arrival and Registration
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM: Private Lessons & Practice*
5:30 PM: Happy Hour
6:00 PM: Dinner
7:00 PM: Faculty presentation
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August 8
8:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM: Private Lessons & Practice*
11:00 AM: Masterclass
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM to 5:30 PM: Private Lessons & Practice*
5:30 PM: Happy Hour
6:00 PM: Dinner
7:00 PM: Faculty presentation
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August 9
8:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM: Private Lessons & Practice*
11:00 AM: Masterclass
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM to 5:30 PM: Private Lessons & Practice*
5:30 PM: Happy Hour
6:00 PM: Dinner
7:00 PM: Faculty presentation
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August 10
8:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM: Private Lessons & Practice*
11:00 AM: Masterclass
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM to 5:30 PM: Private Lessons & Practice*
5:30 PM: Dinner
7:00 PM: Participant Recital with Reception to Follow
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August 11
8:00 AM: Continental Breakfast
11:30 AM: Brunch
3:00 PM: Music in the Mountains Faculty Concert
Checkout by 6pm
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*All students are guaranteed 2 hours per day of practice time on a grand piano. All other practice rooms are on a first-come, first-served basis.