""...the school's invaluable International Keyboard Institute & Festival...the Festival's chief attraction is a series of evening concerts that allow the public to hear pianists in a room large enough to hold some 300 patrons yet intimate enough to qualify as a chamber-music setting.""
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Steve Smith, The New York Times, July 23, 2007 |
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"Jerome Rose's annual festival at the Mannes College of Music is a big-tent affair that accommodates a number of distinctive personalities."
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The New Yorker, July 2007 |
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""...among "the city's most vital places, people and things". "During those long summer weeks when everything else shuts down, the Upper West Side's Mannes College steps up with imposing festivals devoted to a variety of inspirations—piano artistry, contemporary music, Beethoven and so on. Concerts featuring world-class soloists and recitals by faculty and students are friendly to any pocket.""
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Steve Smith, TimeOut New York, Essential New York Secrets issue, November 1, 2007 |
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"In addition, ...a parade of significant pianists at the International Keyboard Institute & Festival at Mannes College."
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, August 2007 |
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"Jerome Rose launches his invaluable summer celebration of the piano..."
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TimeOut New York, July 2007 |
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"The smattering of Croc shoes 'n' shorts that besmirched the audience gathered in Mannes College's auditorium belies the impressive roster of pianists assembled here annually for the International Keyboard Institute & Festival..."
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Ben Finane, The Star-Ledger, July 2007 |
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"Mannes College of Music’s International Keyboard Institute & Festival is, hands down, my favorite summer music event…Don’t miss the chance to hear maestro Jerome Rose, Marc-André Hamelin, …and other piano luminaries hold forth in the heimisch, human-scale concert hall at Mannes."
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M.L. Rosenberg, July 2006 |
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"During the slow summer months, concertgoers who love the piano have plenty to keep them happy during the two weeks of this series at Mannes College, directed by the pianist Jerome Rose."
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New York Times, July 2006 |
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"The Mannes School of Music, long regarded as a fine conservatory, is emerging as a locus for the kind of concert that interestingly combine the educational and the exploratory. Jerome Rose’s series is such an event…"
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The New Yorker, July 2006 |
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"A quiet highlight of New York’s summer season since it was established in 1999, the International Keyboard Institute & Festival presents a stellar lineup of established and emerging pianists in an intimate setting."
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Time Out New York, July 2006 |
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"Annual series of concert and lectures celebrating the ivories"
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New York Magazine, July 2006 |
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"Mannes College of Music’s must-hear piano extravaganza…"
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Marion Lignana
Newsday, 2006 |
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"The buzz was for the final night of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival, a summer treat now in its eighth season, which draws a discriminating audience eager to focus on an array of some of the world’s most distinguished pianists."
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Bruce Hodges, August 2006
Seen and Heard International |
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"Across the Atlantic, if you can ignore the prospect of sultry New York City summer weather, you’ll want to head for the International Keyboard Institute and Festival."
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Erica Worth
Pianist Magazine, London, UK
July 2006 |
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"IKIF is New York City's finest summer music event. The performances are consistently superb ... up close and personal (and in the company of passionate listeners) ... it is really the only way to hear piano music."
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M.L. Rosenberg
Music Critic of Newsday Magazine
Music writer "TimeOut New York" |
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"The International Keyboard Institute & Festival at the Mannes College of Music...has become a staple of the summer concert calendar."
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New York Times |
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"I have never heard so many pianists in the short time frame of two weeks, and there were up to six master classes daily given by these internationally recognized pianists. What a wonderful festival for these young, fortunate students coming from all over the world – some making their very first trip to America. Hats off to Founding Director Jerome Rose as well as Julie Kedersha for the daunting task of organizing this amazing Festival."
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New York Concert Review, Winter 2006 |
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"Luckily for New Yorkers, Mannes College of Music’s International Keyboard Institute and Festival (IKIF), one of the nation’s finest piano-concert series, transforms the Upper West Side’s summer-in-the-city grit into an oasis of inspired music making."
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Time Out New York, July 2005 |
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"Mannes College of Music’s International Keyboard Institute & Festival presents world-class artists in the kind of intimate surroundings where Mozart and Chopin might have played."
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Newsday, July 2005 |
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"This annual festival, now in its seventh summer season, again promises to keep even the most insatiable lover of piano music happy."
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The New York Times, July 2005 |
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"Jerome Rose’s annual festival, a boon to the city’s piano aficionados, returns with an impressive lineup of major artists offering concerts and master classes."
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The New Yorker, July 2005 |
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"The IKIF roster is stellar…concerts take place in Mannes’ cozy recital hall, creating a mood of unique concentration and intimacy. The whisper of the air-conditioning here is a roar over audiences’ silence; cell phones and coughing are nowhere to be heard."
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Newsday, July 2005 |
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"One of the nicest things about the New York summer – classical-music division- is the International Keyboard Institute & Festival at the Mannes College of Music. What we get is two weeks of concerts, masterclasses, and other activities. If you want a concentrated pianistic education – you could do worse."
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The New York Sun, July 2005 |
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"More attention should be given to the International Keyboard Institute & Festival, now under way at Mannes College. In its seventh year, it comes along each summer for two weeks in the latter half of July, when concert life in New York has slowed down, and provides one and sometimes even two concerts a day by marvelous pianists, as well as master classes by many of the distinguished artists who perform, and also teach the young musicians who come there to study. It is the place to be, especially for pianists….If you’re in New York in the second half of July, and love the piano, you really should spend some time on West 85th Street, and hear what goes on there"
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Classical Music Guide, July 2005 |
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"Concertgoers queued around the block for a ticket to this year’s annual piano extravaganza at Mannes College of Music, which ran from 17-31 July. And with the various talents of Melvyn Tan, Dmitri Bashkirov, Marc-Andre Hamelin and Earl Wild on the schedule of concerts, lectures and masterclasses, it’s easy to see why"
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International Piano, November/December 2005 |
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