Jack Winerock

Jack Winerock, a native of New York City, received undergraduate and master's degrees at the Juilliard School of Music and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. His teachers included Sascha Gorodnitzki, György Sándor, and Leon Fleisher. Currently Chancellor’s Club Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas School of Music, he was awarded the prestigious Kemper Teaching Award in 2003. In 2009, he was chosen Teacher of the Year by the National Federation of Music Clubs, and in 2010 he presented the Chopin Master Class at the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) annual convention. Winerock received Second Prize in the International Bach Competition, made his orchestral debut with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, and played his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. He has toured Europe, Asia, and South America as well as the United States. In 1986, he gave the first performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in the People's Republic of China, and in l990, he was appointed the first U.S. Visiting Professor at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. He is a longtime member of the International Institute for Young Musicians. Winerock has achieved national and international acclaim as a performer, teacher, adjudicator, and lecturer. He currently performs solo recitals and presents numerous master classes in Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. His students have won prizes in national and international competitions, including the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the MTNA, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Johanna Hodges. They hold important faculty positions both in the United States as well as in conservatories in Europe and Asia. He is also Artistic Director of the International Institute for Young Musicians (IIYM) Piano Competition and Festival held every summer at the University of Kansas. Winerock is known for his performances of early American piano music and has recorded the Three Keyboard Sonatas of Alexander Reinagle (teacher of George Washington’s children) for the Musical Heritage Society, which he played on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Broadwood Piano manufactured in the 1800’s. Winerock was a member of the HHIPC’s Selection Jury in 2020.

This performance is made possible by a generous contribution from Mike and Mary Briggs.

Jack Winerock Yankee Doodle And More: American Music from Colonial Times to the Middle of the 20th Century

Monday, June 7 at 7:30 pm St. Luke’s Church

Alexander Reinagle (American) Sonata No. 1 in D major, I. Allegro con brio Louis Moreau Gottschalk (American) Souvenir of Porto Rico, Op. 31 Edward McDowell (American) Scotch Poem, Op. 31, No. 2

Charles Griffes (American) Sonata No. 1

INTERMISSION

James Hewitt (American) Variations on Yankee Doodle

"Blind Tom" Wiggins (American) Battle of Manassas R. Nathaniel Dett (American) Morning: Barcarolle (from “In the Bottoms” Suite) Vincent Persichetti (American) Sonata No. 3, Op. 22

I am very excited to share with Hilton Head audiences music composed and performed in the United States over the past 200 years. The format will be a lecture-recital discussing composers, their audiences, and the settings where their music was performed. Starting during the time of George Washington, I will present music that was played in homes as well as in concert halls and even on battlefields. Some of the works are fiendishly difficult, while others can be played by amateur music lovers. If you want to listen to some of this music before the recital, composers will include Alexander Reinagle, Edward McDowell, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Nathaniel Dett, "Blind Tom" Wiggins, Charles Griffes, and Vincent Persichetti.