Recently a student asked me what my musical lineage, I just finished my piano lineage so I thought I would share it with you. I am now currently updating my...
Muiscal Lineage
Recently a student asked me what my musical lineage, I just finished my piano lineage so I thought I would share it with you. I am now currently updating my vocal one – so will share when completed.
Piano Musical Lineage – Natalia Pardalis
Please note – all listed below were in a regular lesson situation, not a master class situation.
Maria Pardalis
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Maria Pardalis who studied with
Huge Mclean, (head examiner for Royal Conservatory of Muisc and composer) who studied with
Miss Mabel Lander
Miss Lander claimed that her teacher’s teacher was the last student of Chopin (sadly unable to find much info on Mabel Lander other than Queen Elizabeth the second also studied with her)
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Maria Pardalis who studied with
Huge Mclean who studied with
Phyllis Schuldt who studied with
Herbert Fryer
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Maria Pardalis who studied with
Huge Mclean who studied with
Arthur Benjamin
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Maria Pardalis who studied studied with
Robin Harrison who studied with
Carlo Zecchi who studied with
Feruccio Busoni who studied with (also taught Dimitris Mitropoulos)
Carl Reinecke who studied with both
Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Maria Pardalis who studied with
Robin Harrison who studied
Artur Schnabel who studied with
Eusebius Mandyczewski who studied with
Who was Johann Brahm’s assistant
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Maria Pardalis who studied with
Gladys Angley very popular Canadian Concert pianist until rheumatoid arthritis forced her to curtail her public performances in 1955.
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Maria Pardalis who studied with
Sister Agnes in Regina Saskatoon
Not much is known about Sister Agnes except that she was a RCM examiner.
Ron Moir
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Ronald Moir studied with
Mrs RubyMoir who studied with
Margaret Waterhouse (1890-1967) who studied with
unidentified (cannot get this name, but he/she studied with)
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Ronald Moir studied with
Alma Brock-Smith who studied with
Dr Lyall Gustin (1895-1988) Order of Canada, who studied with
Jeanette Durno in Chicago (1920-1923) who studied with
Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915) who studied with
Carl Czerny (1791-1857) who studied with
Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1826) who studied with
Haydn (1732-1809) who studied with
KPE Bach (1714-1788) who studied with
JS Bach (1685-1750)
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Ronald Moir also studied 3 years with
Joan Davies who studied with
Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) and
Egon Petri (1881-1962) who studied with
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) who studied with
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Petri also studied with
Teresa Carreno (1853-1917) who studied with
Franz Liszt (1810-1888)
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Ron Moir who studied with
Phyllis Holtby who studied with
Frank Mannheimer (1896-1972) whose classmates included Sir Clifford Curzon Dame Myra Hess and Dame Myra Lympany) who all studied in London with
Tobias Matthay (1858-1945) England’s most influential piano instructor)
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Ron Moir also studied with
William Aide (now of U of T) who studied with
Beveridge Webster (1908 – ) who studied with
Isidor Philipp, Nadia Boulanger, Robert Casadesus in Paris, where he won the Rome Prize, and later studied with Artur Schnabel
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Ronald Moir also studied with
Igor Kipnis (1930-2002), born in Berlin, studied with
Heniot Levy, American composer Virgil Thompson, and at Harvard with Thurston Dart and Fernando Valenti
Natalia Pardalis stuided with
Ronald Moir studied with
Marek Jablonski (1939-99) who studied with
Gladys Ebgert Edmonton’s leading pedagog, and with
Rosina Lhevinne (Juilliard) who studied with
Safanoff at the Moscow Conservatory
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Ronald Moir studied with
Mark Kroll at Boston University, who studied with
Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911-84) who studied with Nadia Boulanger, Paris, Wanda Landowska, Arnold Dolmetsch , Hazelmere Surrey, Heinz Tiessen, Berlin and Gunther Ramin, Leipzig.
If master class teachers were included, Ron also worked Boris Roubakine at the Banff Center and Leonard Isaacs at the U of
Susanne Klukas
Natalia Pardalis studied with
Susanne Klukas who studied with
Clarles Spencer who studied with
Walter Fleischmann who studied with
Noel Flores who studied with
Julia Parodi who studied with
Feruccio Busoni who studied with
Carl Reinecke who studied with both
Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann
Other teachers of note:
Natalia Pardalis also studied with:
Susan Olson who studied with
Robert Silverman
Well-know Ellen Wang (organist of Vancouver Symphony and professor at Trinity Western University)
Edward Parker, RCM Examiner
Sandra Joy Friesen
Elenor Parker
Piano and pedagogy
Who studied with Kelly Kirby
(founder of Kelly Kirby piano method)
Mary Fraser
Studied theory and voice
Founder of the Mary Fraiser theory books written to prepare students for RCM exams
If master classes are included then Natalia Pardalis also worked with Jane Bastien of Bastien Beginner Books and Mark Sarnecki of Theory Book series,
I think it is so interesting and rather cool for a lack of a better word that alot of my teachers all come for the same place – the Romantic Era! lol is it any wonder I love the romantic composers so much and philosophy is based from the idea that music should be an expression of the artist!
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