Faculty
Kazimierz Brzozowski is the founder and director of the International Music Festival in Nałęczów. He has garnered international acclaim for his captivating performances, in particular the music of Chopin. He has won top prizes at the Polish Piano Festival, in the Chopin Society Competition in Warsaw and has received awards from Ann Arbor Music Society, Kosciuszko Foundation in New York and the University of Michigan. He has given recitals and performed with orchestras in Poland, U.S.A., Japan, Italy and Hungary. He has been featured on the Polish Radio and National Television and made CD recordings with Music of Bach, Mozart, Chopin , Liszt, Bartok and Szymanowski. He holds a Master’s degree from the Fr. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw where he studied with prof. R. Smendzianka, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan. Currently he teaches piano at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Tomoko Mack is a performing duo pianist. She has won, together with her sister Yuki, First Prize and Kodama Prize at the Fourth International Piano Duo Competition in Tokyo; the Ellis Two-Piano Competition and the Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition and was featured artist in the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Michigan, the Symposium for Two-Pianos in Florida and the Quebec International Two Piano Festival. She has concertized all over United States, in Japan, Poland, Italy and Sweden and produced four highly acclaimed compact discs that include a diverse repertoire of one-piano and two-piano works: Rhapsody, American Mosaic, Fantasy and Danse Montage. Since 2023, she has held a teaching position at the Wayne State University piano department. She is on a faculty at Wayne State University.
Eloisa Cascio completed her music study and obtained Master and specialist degrees with distinction in Piano, as a student of Tina Babuscio (Conservatory of Benevento), Harpsichord (Conservatory of Campobasso) Chamber Music and Choral Music and Choir Direction (Conservatory of Avellino) and Piano Chamber Music (Conservatory of Napoli). She took part in piano masterclasses with Bruno Canino, Peter Lang, Gottlieb Jiracek von Armin, Johannes Kropfitsch, Oleg Marshev, Joseph Paratore, Henri Sigfridsson, Andreas Frohlich, Olivier Gardon, Dominique Merlet, Teppo Koivisto, Paolo Bordoni, Fausto Di Cesare and others.
In 2012 she won the III prize in the Dichler Competition. In 2016, she was the recipient of the “University of South Florida Steinway Piano Series special award”. The award is given annually to help an exceptional pianist at the beginning of their professional career.
Ms. Cascio performed as a soloist and collaborative pianist at music festivals in Italy, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Holland, Greece, Poland, Macedonia, Baltic Republic’s, Romania, Montenegro and United States of America, Croatian, Slovenian, Austria, Lithuania, Estonian, Latvia. She was a featured soloist of the Romanian Philharmonic Orchestras Dinu Lipatti of Satu Mare and Mihai Jora of Bacau, Prague Harmonia Nova and Les Soloists in France. As harpsichordist Eloisa performed solo, in ensembles and also with orchestra. Ms. Cascio teaches piano at the Conservatory “Nicola Sala” in Benevento (Italy).
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Arthur Greene, born in New York, studied at Juilliard with Martin Canin and earned degrees from Yale University and Stony Brook. He won Gold Medals in the William Kapell and Gina Bachauer International Piano Competitions and was a top laureate at the Busoni International Competition. Greene has performed and recorded significant works, including Brahms’ complete solo piano works and Scriabin’s Etudes and Sonata Cycle, often incorporating multimedia presentations. He has also recorded with his wife, violinist Solomia Soroka, including the Violin-Piano Sonatas of William Bolcom.
Greene has performed with major orchestras, such as the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Utah, and National Symphonies, as well as international venues like Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Rachmaninov Hall in Moscow. He has toured extensively in Japan, Korea, and other countries, and served as an Artistic Ambassador to Serbia, Kosovo, and Bosnia for the United States Information Agency.
Since 1990, Greene has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan, where he has earned the Harold Haugh Award for Excellence in studio teaching. His students include international competition prizewinners and faculty members at prominent universities. Greene is also a frequent judge at competitions such as the Gilels and Isangyun Competitions.