#47 - Interview w/ Pianist Beverly Gilbert about Hungarian Pedagogue Ilonka Deckers-Kuszler

The 47th episode of Dress Rehearsal, on 107.3 KBFG Seattle, welcomed Pianist Beverly Gilbert, who has been performing and teaching in the Atlanta region and also collaborated in chamber music with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra members and as a pianist with the Atlanta Symphony. With Beverly we talk about piano pedagogue Ilonka Deckers-Kuszler who extensively taught, in her studio located in Milan, Italy, a large number of students coming from all over the world. Both Beverly and I have been studying with her, at different times, Beverly in the seventies and myself in the nineties and would like to dedicate this podcast to the memory of Ilonka Deckers as well as talk about her teaching methods and her lineage that links all of her students to Franz Liszt, having, Ms. Deckers, studied at the Liszt Academy with a student of Liszt. We will also listen to a few recordings of two of her most successful and famous students, Hungarian pianists Edith Farnadi and Annie Fischer. Don't miss it!