Background
Slenczynska, Ruth was born on January 15, 1925 in Sacramento. Daughter of Josef and Dorothy (Goldstein) Slenczynska.
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Intended for the aspiring artist as well as the enthusiastic amateur, this invaluable guide to piano practice and performance covers every major aspect of pianistic technique. Drawing from more than forty years experience as a teacher and highly acclaimed performer—as well as from her studies with Rachmaninoff, Schnabel, and Cortot—Slenczynska clearly demonstrates such basics as the proper use of hand positions, fingering, pedaling, ornamentation, various fingering touches, and counting. She also gives detailed instructions on the art of program building, carefully analyzing the concert programs of Horowitz, Rubinstein, and Serkin and pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of their program construction. She includes repertoire lists for performance at various levels of ability, a complete chart of ornament interpretation, and authoritative advice on posture, sight-reading, rhythm, note-learning, and memorization. Her book is essential reading for all who enjoy in the piano-beginners, serious students, teachers, and listeners.
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educator author concert pianist
Slenczynska, Ruth was born on January 15, 1925 in Sacramento. Daughter of Josef and Dorothy (Goldstein) Slenczynska.
Student, Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel. Student, Alfred Cortot, S. Rachmoninoff. Doctor of Music (honorary), Lebanon Valley College, 1977.
Doctor of Art, Southern Illinois University, 2000.
Instructor piano College of Our Lady of Mercy, 1945-1949, San Francisco Community Music School, 1949-1952. Professor music, artist-in-residence Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 1966—2002, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, since 2002. Visiting lecturer University Rhode Island, summers 1961-1967.
Conductor over 400 workshops at universities in North America, South America, Europe. Adjudicator local, national and international competitions, including International Liszt Competition, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1999, Busoni International Piano Competition, Italy, 1999, Chopin National Competition, Miami, Florida, 2000.
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Member Delta Omicron, Phi Beta Chi.
Married George Anderw Born, June 17, 1944 (divorced 1955). Married James Richard Kerr, August 12, 1967 (deceased March 2001).