SMTA Piano Masterclass Series
Chair: Michelle Huang
Date: Sunday, May 25, 2025
Registration period: April 13 - May 11
Schedule:
2:00 - 3:30 pm Session 1
3:30 - 3:45 pm Break
3:45 - 5:15 pm Session 2
Location: Wedgwood Presbyterian Church at 8008 35th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115
Masterclass Artist Teacher: Dr. Ross Salvosa
https://www.cwu.edu/academics/music/directory/ross-salvosa.php
Registration Process: Student entries to the masterclass are on a first-come, first-served basis.
Registration Fees: Intermediate: $45, Advanced: $55
Registration Deadline: Sunday, May 11, 2025
The SMTA Masterclass Series provides students the opportunity to be coached by highly qualified visiting master teachers. Students will receive valuable feedback on their pieces and benefit from observing the critiques of the other participating students. Open to pre-college students at the intermediate and advanced levels.
Masterclass is open to the public.
About Masterclass Teacher, Dr. Ross Salvosa
Ross Salvosa is a Piano and Piano Pedagogy faculty at Central Washington University and an active member of the Music Teachers National Association and is currently serving in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force of the Washington State Music Teachers Association. He was also a member of the 2023 MTNA Conference Planning Committee and was also the 2023 MTNA Poster Session Chair. He has served in the juries of the Seattle International Piano Competition, Oregon Music Teachers Association Young Artist Competition, Steinway Canada Young Artist Piano Competition, Vancouver International Festival of Russian Music, Philippine National Music Competition for Young Artists, and the Piano Teachers Guild of the Philippines Festival and Competition. He has given piano pedagogy lectures and masterclasses for the Steinway Young Artist in Canada (Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver), BC Registered Music Teachers Association (Richmond, Langley, and South Fraser), Kenosha Music Teachers Association, Piano League, Cultural Center of the Philippines, University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, Philippine Suzuki Association, and the Manila Piano Series. He recently recorded the album “Malikmata (Transfiguration)” with MSR Classics to be released in February featuring the works of Filipino composers Lucio San Pedro, Ramón Tapales, and Antonio Molina, as well as the complete Op. 10 Etudes by Frederic Chopin and Guido Agosti’s transcription of the Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky.
Ross is on the advisory board of the Seattle International Piano Festival and Competition where he also serves as outreach coordinator. He was the chairman and artistic director of the Music Without Borders Society in Vancouver-BC from 2012 to 2018. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of British Columbia, where he was a recipient of the Mildred Johnson scholarship award, and his Masters and Bachelors of Music degrees from the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University under full scholarship. His piano mentors include William Chapmann Nyaho, Sara Davis Buechner, Corey Hamm, Roberta Rust, Kenneth Broadway, Ralph Markham, Maria Rosa Oubiña, Emilio Del Rosario, Reynaldo Reyes, Mauricia Borromeo, Ruby Pilante-Salvosa, Abelardo Galang II, and Jose Artemio Panganiban.