Randall M Love
| Title: | Associate Professor of the Practice of Music (piano), Director of Performance |
| Office Location: | 085 Mary Duke Biddle |
| Office Phone: | (919) 660-3334 |
| Email Address: | rmlove@duke.edu |
Education
- Solo Diploma with Honors, Sweelinck Conservatory, Amsterdam, Teacher: Edith Lateiner-Grosz (piano), 1983
- Master of Music with Honors, New England Conservatory of Music, Teachers: Patricia Zander (piano), Benjamin Zander (chamber music), and Robert DiDomenica (composition), 1979
- Bachelor of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Teachers: Sanford Margolis (piano), Lisa Crawford (harpsichord), and Denes Koromsay (chamber music), 1976
- Master Classes on Fortepiano with with Jos van Immerseel (Nuremberg, 1981), Paul Badura-Skoda (Paris, 1980), and Malcolm Bilson (Wellesley, 1978) and the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, , 1975
- Master Classes on Piano with Luiz de Moura Castro (1997-2005), Pierre Réach and Paul Badura-Skoda (1997), John Perry (1992), Jacob Lateiner (1988), Claude Frank (1983), Balint Vasoni, , 1974
- Pre-college piano studies, University of Northern Colorado, Teacher: Rita Hutcherson, 1972
Research Interests
historical performance practice on original instruments(fortepiano) and twentieth century piano music.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- META, May, 2008
- Listed in American Keyboard Artists, 2nd Edition, 1992
- Finalist, Jacques Vonk Piano Competition, Amsterdam, NL, May 1984
- Finalist, Erwin Bodky Early Keyboard Competition, Boston, Mass., 1983
Teaching (Fall 2009):
- Music 106.09, Chamber music
- Biddle 102, F 07:15 PM-08:15 PM
Recent Professional Work:
- R.M. Love. Tombeau de Debussy CD received additional polish editing. working on producing CD liner notes.Centaur label has expressed interest.. 2007 .
- Tombeau de Debussy CD received additional polish editing. working on producing CD liner notes.. 2006 .
- Le Tombeau de Debussy. 2005, . (ten works by contemporaries of Debussy (Ravel, Bartók, Falla, Stravinsky, Satie, Schmitt, Goosens, Malipirero, Roussel, and Dukas) composed for him "in memoriam" and played on a 1915 Blüthner grand. It has been edited and now has to be submitted to potential publishers.)
- White Man Sleeps. Centaur label, not yet released, 2003 . (, works for one or two harpsichords and percussion by Kevin Volans and others on an African theme.) [author's comments]
- Fortepiano Music of Jan Vorísek, A Bohemian Composer in Beethoven's Vienna. Titanic (Ti-234), 1996 . (, impromptus, rhapsodies, a fantasie, and an eclogue on an 1815 Streicher copy by Thomas and Barbara Wolf.)
Commissions:
- Commissions, 2008/01/03
Solo Performances:
- Solo Performances, Duke University and Carol Woods, Chapel Hill NC, November 30, 2007
modern piano recital with Schubert, Brahms, Debussy, Crumb, and Whetstone.
Performances:
- Performances, Duke University and Carol Woods, Chapel Hill NC, October 29, 2008
Complete Brahm's Sonatas for violin and piano with Hsiao-Mei Ku - Performances, Duke University, September, 2008
Fortepiano participant in Rare Music's Civil War program. - Performances, Salem College, Winston-Salem, March 06, 2008
Four-hands Sonata for fortepiano with Andrew Willis (UNC-Greensboro) at SEKHS conference. - "Piscipiri" by Youngmi Cho, Graduate Student Composers Concert, Duke University, December 24, 2006
- Scarlathon (Global scarlatti Marathon). Performed Scarlatti sonatas on harpsichord, fortepiano, and modern piano, Duke University, December 02, 2006
- Sonatas of Mozart for violin and fortepiano with Samual Breene, Duke University, September 14, 2006
- Piano solo in Joseph Schwantner's "....and the mountains rising nowhere" for wind ensemble and piano. UNC Symphonic Band., Memorial Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006/04/24
- "Zeitgeist: Six Tableaux for Two Amplified pianos, Book I" by Geoge Crumb with Andrew Willis of UNC-G. Also performed Crumb's "Processional" for solo piano in Greensboro., UNC-Greensboro and Duke University (Festival of Four Hands), February 3, 2006 and February 5, 2006
- Annual faculty recital, Duke University and Carol Woods, Chapel Hill NC, February 12, 2006
Complete works for violin and piano by Serge Prokofiev with Eric Pritchard, violin. - "A Bird came down the Walk" by Toru Takemitsu with Jonathan Bagg, viola, Duke University and Carol Woods, Chapel Hill NC, January 15, 2006
- Concerto soloist with the Duke Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn's Rondo Brillante op.29 and Schumann's Introduction and Allegro Appassionato, Op.92., Duke University, December 07, 2005
- Third and final program of a survey of the complete works of Beethoven for cello and fortepiano works with cellist Brent Wissick (UNC-Chapel Hill), UNC-Chapel Hill and at DUMIC (using an 1805 Clementi fortepiano), Duke University, October, 2005
- Solo Recital at the "Forum International de Musica Barcelona Ciutat" Festival, Works of Brahms, Adams, Falla, Debussy and Beethoven., Barcelona, Spain, July 17, 2005
- Fortepiano recital: Vorísek Impromptu, Beethoven Appassionata and Cello Sonata Op. 69 with Brent Wissick, Goethe Institute, Boston, June 17, 2005
- All Beethoven recital: Op.57 (Appassionata) and Op.110 solo sonatas and the Cello Sonata Op.69 and variations with Brent Wissick, UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, March, 2005
Compositions Performed:
- Compositions Performed, Duke University, December,2008
Played piano part in Duke graduate student Dan Rucciia's ensemble piece "Meatballs and Backbeats". - Compositions Performed, Salem College, Winston-Salem, March, 2008
Performed premiere of "Little Suite for Harpsichord" by UK composer Daniel Basford for the Alienor Harpsichord Composition Competition. - Compositions Performed, Duke University, April 2003
Performed premiere of Duke graduate student Amy Scurria's piano composition "Adaptations". - Compositions Performed, Mark Morris Center (Brooklyn) and Tisch School at NYU, November 19, 2004 and December 14
My electronic soundscape, recorded on a CD, was used in two performances with choreography by Hou Ying (Shen-Wei Dance Company)
Master Classes:
- Master Classes, UNC-Chapel Hill, June, 2008
My third time to be invited as piano faculty for a week-long chamber music clinic for amateurs and young professionals. - Coached chamber music for "September Prelude--Chamber Music Workshop", Meredith College, September 9, 2006