In the spring term of each year, the Department of Music holds the Gerald A. Tracy Memorial Piano Competition, in which undergraduate piano students perform and compete for first, second, and third prize awards.
Friday, May 19
7:00 p.m.
Sudikoff 045
Saturday, May 20
10:00 a.m.
Sudikoff 045
Evan Hirsch
Stephanie Rogers
and special guest judge Shizue Sano
Registration due: April 19
To register, please fill out the form below and send a PDF scan to music@dartmouth.edu.
2023 Tracy Piano Competition Registration Form
A native of Japan, Shizue Sano received the Bachelor of Music in piano from the prestigious Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo. She came to study at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, and earned the Artist Diploma in piano and the Master of Music in piano. She has participated in numerous national and international competitions. She was the winner of the Simone Belsky Competition, the second prize winner and the Liszt Special Prize recipient at the St.-Nom-la-Bréteche Competition, and the third prize winner of the Japan Music Competition, to list some of her achievements. Her recordings include Liszt's Sonata and Ravel's Le Tomebeau de Couperin, Chopin's complete Preludes, Ravel's Violin Sonata with Roman Totenberg, and Aaron Copland's unpublished works with Terry King. She was a longtime faculty member at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, until 2013, and has been teaching in Middlesex for many years. She also has a busy studio in Cambridge with students of all levels and ages, and is active in solo and chamber music performances. Steinway & Sons selected her as a recipient of the Steinway Top Teacher Award in 2022. She also serves as an Executive Board Member of the New England Piano Teachers' Association.
2022
(No competition held in 2020 or 2021)
2019
The Gerald Tracy Memorial Scholarship Fund was created in January 1983 with funds available from life income trusts established at the College by the late Pennington Haile '24 in memory of his friend Gerald Tracy. Annual revenues from the Fund are awarded each year to a Dartmouth undergraduate who is a serious piano student, who shows potential for a professional career as a concert pianist, and who also qualifies for financial aid under the conditions established by the College Trustees. Each spring the Music Department holds The Gerald Tracy Piano Competition, through which it hopes to identify outstanding piano students to be awarded first, second, and third prize awards.
Awarded to the highest-ranking winner of the Tracy Competition who is eligible for financial aid, the Tracy Scholarship recognizes the student's serious pursuit of an instrument, and his or her potential for further professional involvement in music. As the Tracy Scholar, the student receives, in addition to his or her competition award, an additional $100 in scholarship aid per enrolled term. Moreover, the Scholarship is recorded in official College transcripts and represents an important academic recognition.