Anne Garee, Registered Piano Technician
Anne Garee came to Florida State University as a piano technician in 1983 and joined the faculty in 2004. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance and completed a three year apprenticeship program for the Certificate in Piano Technology from the Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She is a Registered Piano Technician with the Piano Technicians Guild. Anne has taken additional training with Steinway and Yamaha working with concert technicians and digital acoustics instructors. She has studied piano action reweighting and rebalancing with David Stanwood, a pioneer in the field of piano action design.

Along with her tuning and restoration duties, Ms. Garee has enjoyed a 23 year teaching career in the College of Music offering a series of piano technology courses for pianists. Her teaching experience includes technical courses for pianists and technicians in Costa Rica as part of the University's FloRica Program. In addition, she accepted an invitation by the Carter Center in Atlanta to formulate a Piano Technology course for teachers of the blind in mainland China. She is an active clinician both in the US and in Canada. Thanks to an active Early Music Program at Florida State University, she has enjoyed working with harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos, and square grands, and their historical temperaments and tuning systems.

In 2004, she designed and implemented the Master of Arts in Piano Technology degree program at Florida State University. This program is the first of its kind anywhere and affords graduate students the unusually rich experience of working with students and faculty in one of the country's most comprehensive schools of music.

Amy Porter
Hailing from Canada, Ms. Porter holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music History and Theory from McMaster University in Hamilton as well as a Certificate in Piano Technology from the University of Western Ontario in London. Prior to beginning her studies at Florida State University, she spent 5 successful years running her own business in Piano Tuning and Repair in her home country. Amy strongly believes that her choice to study at Florida State has already opened new doorways to an exciting future in Piano Technology.

Jennifer Roberts
Jennifer Roberts completed a Bachelor of Music and Music Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. As a pianist, she had always been fascinated with the inner workings of the instrument which lead her to pursue the area of piano technology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. This led to an apprenticeship at the Aspen music festival, and a two year graduate assistantship at Florida State University. Upon completion of the Master of Arts in Piano Technology at FSU, Jennifer was offered a rebuilding internship at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Currently Jennifer is working as a piano technician in Sydney, Australia.

The Mastrogiacomo Duo
Professor Leonard Mastrogiacomo
Adjunct Professor Norma Mastrogiacomo
Performing: from Fantasy, Suite, Op. 5: A Night for Love Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) & from En Blanc et Noir: I. Avec emportement Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Husband and wife Leonard and Norma Mastrogiacomo are Duo Pianists in Residence at FSU and have established an outstanding reputation in that field. Their activities include presenting concerts, lectures, and workshops. The Mastrogiacomo Duo was twice selected to participate in the State Touring Program sponsored by the Florida Department of State. They were also recipients of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant to commission new works for duo piano.

LEONARD MASTROGIACOMO, Professor of Piano, is a graduate of Chicago Musical College and the Juilliard School of Music. His major teachers have been Ejnar Krantz, Wanda Paul, Rudolph Ganz and Joseph Bloch. As a recipient of a Fulbright Grant for study in Italy, he studied at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. Mastrogiacomo has performed in both the United States and Europe, where he participated in a tour sponsored by the U.S. Government.

Leonard has been an active member of the Florida State Music Teachers Association (FSMTA) for numerous years as a performer, adjudicator, and panelist, and has held various offices, including that of President. His students have been successful in winning many awards and competitions, and serve on faculties in colleges and universities throughout the United States.

In 2003 Leonard Mastrogiacomo was presented with the 'Excellence in Teaching Award' by FSMTA.

NORMA MASTROGIACOMO, Resident Duo Pianist, received the B.M. from Chicago Musical College and the M.M. from Northwestern University. She continued her musical training with Beveridge Webster in New York and with Pietro Scarpini in Florence, Italy, as a winner of a Fulbright Scholarship.

As a member of the Trio Bel Canto, Mastrogiacomo received a bronze medal at the first Osaka International Chamber Music Festival in Osaka, Japan. She joined the FSU faculty in 1980, and has taught at Idaho State University.

Professor Heidi Louise Williams
Performing: Une barque sur l'ocean (A boat on the ocean) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937),
Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64 no. 1 ("Minute") Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

Heidi Louise Williams has appeared in solo and chamber music performances across the United States and in Europe, and has won numerous prizes including the La Gesse French-American Foundation Piano Fellowship, the St. Louis Artist Presentation Society Debut Recital Auditions, the W. Frederick Schaad Award at the Carmel National Chamber Music Competition, two Peabody Career Development Grants, the Baltimore Chamber Music Awards Competition, and the Peabody Sidney M. Friedberg Prize in Chamber Music. As a winner of Artists International's Special Presentation Award, she was presented in her New York recital debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in 2004, receiving highest critical acclaim from the audience and the press. She recently returned to New York for a recital at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in April 2006 as recipient of Artists International's Outstanding Alumni Winners' Award in Piano, again receiving highest critical acclaim.

Her engagements have included concerto appearances with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony, the Southern Illinois Symphony, and the Oregon Sinfonietta, as well as professional solo and chamber music appearances at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center, the French Embassy in Washington D.C., the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, and the Carmel Sunset Theater in California. As an active chamber musician, Dr. Williams has collaborated with many outstanding American and international artists including tenor Matthew Chellis, the Cavani Quartet, violist Miles Hoffman, violinist Bin Huang, violinist Qian Zhou, violinist Geza Kapas, violinist Michael Barta, and cellists Pei Lu and Dariusz Skoraczewski.

Dr. Williams is currently the newest member of the piano faculty at Florida State University. Prior to this, she served on the piano faculty at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music since 1999. She completed her Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, where she studied with renowned pianist Ann Schein and coached chamber music with Earl Carlyss, Samuel Sanders, Stephen Kates, and Robert McDonald.

Professor Bill Peterson
Performing: In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington,
Put on a Happy Face Charles - Strouse/ Lee Adams

Bill Peterson, Associate Professor of Jazz/Contemporary Media at Florida State University, received the B.M. degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory and the Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media from the Eastman School of Music. Among his teachers have been Bill Dobbins, Rayburn Wright, and Katherine Teves.

Professor Peterson was a finalist in the Great American Jazz Piano Competition, in 1992 and 1999. He teaches jazz piano, jazz arranging and film scoring. He is also the supervisor of student composers who are scoring films for the Florida State University School of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts.

Xu Hui
Xu Hui is a Doctoral student majoring in piano performance at Florida State University. Xu Hui began studying the piano at age of five. At the age of 12, she was accepted at the ShenYang conservatory in China. In 1998, she went to study at the Odessa Conservatory in Ukraine, and was awarded her first Master's degree in 2004. During the 6 years that she studied at Odessa, she won several international competitions in Russia, Ukraine and other countries in Europe. She made many audio and video recordings in different countries at that time.

In 2006, Hui Xu got her second Master's degree at Ball State University in Indiana. She was awardedfirst prize in the Concerto Competition in Indiana in 2005, and first prize in the Doctoral Concerto Competition in FSU in 2008. She has performed with symphony orchestras in Odessa, Ukraine, Muncie, Indiana, and Tallahassee, Florida.