Music at the Library

Hamilton Tescarollo, Piano

Please join us for an hour of classical piano music, with Hamilton Tescarollo, Professor of Music at Purdue Fort Wayne. He will be playing works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Villa-Lobos.

Please join us for a Sunday afternoon concert at the Library, featuring local pianist Dr. Hamilton Tescarollo. Featuring words by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Villa-Lobos. 

Tescarollo serves as Professor of Music and Director of Keyboard Studies at Purdue University Fort Wayne. In this capacity, he teaches applied piano and piano-related courses and coordinates the keyboard area. He also teaches both young and professional pianists through the PFW Community Arts Academy and serves as piano faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp in the summer. He has previously held teaching positions at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, The Municipal School of Music of São Paulo, and Arizona State University, and has also taught at the Saarburg Serenaden International Music Festival (Germany). In addition, Tescarollo is founder and director of the Gene Marcus Piano Competition and the Gene Marcus Piano Camp and Festival and is a frequent master class presenter and competition adjudicator.

Dr. Tescarollo holds Piano Performance degrees from Arizona State University (D.M.A. and M.M.), Faculdade Santa Marcelina (B.M.), and Escola Municipal de Música de São Paulo (Diploma). His main teachers were Gilberto Tinetti (a pupil of Tagliaferro, Cortot, and Wuehrer) and Caio Pagano (also a pupil of Tagliaferro, as well as of Conrad Hansen, and Carl Engel). He also has studied with Robert Hamilton, Sandra Abrão and Paulo Bergamo, and has coached with Menahem Pressler, Paul Badura-Skoda, Lazar Berman, Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, and Maria João Pires, among others.