Instructor of Piano and Music Theory
Giuseppe Lupis is a pianist and a musician whose interests range from baroque music to contemporary styles and from jazz to his own arrangements of popular music.
Performance venues include among others Temple Square Concert Series, Salt Lake City, Utah; Serate Musicali, Verdi Conservatory Hall, Milan, Italy; Municipality Hall, Varna, Bulgaria; Guido Miranda Theatre, Resistencia, Argentina; Treze de Majo Theatre, Santa Maria, Brazil; and Volyn State University, Lutsk, Ukraine. Giuseppe Lupis performed for the American Liszt Society Festival; the Peabody Award Banquet at the Governor’s Mansion in Atlanta, Georgia; and the ACDA convention at The Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia.
As soloist he has appeared with the Lviv, Latvian, and Bari Symphonies, the UGA Symphony and the Ascoli Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed with percussionist and composer Ney Rosauro, and his live DVD recording with guitar player Scotty Anderson is due for release in September 2008. His compact disc of George Gershwin solo works (Phoenix label, 2000) was declared “exceptional” by musicologist Alberto Cantu on Il Giornale (Milan, Italy).
Courses Taught
110 Music Appreciation
112 Music Theory II
211 Music Theory III
420 Form and Analysis
Applied Music Keyboard - Elective and Major
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Giuseppe Lupis served on the juries of the International Singing Competition “Citta’ di Alcamo”, and the Premio Massimo Urbani Jazz Competition of which he is former artistic director.
Giuseppe Lupis holds the position of Assistant Professor of Music (piano and theory) at Missouri Southern State University. Previous teaching positions include the Bari and Campobasso Italian State Conservatories, the G.B Pergolesi Music Institute in Ancona, Italy; Wesleyan College, Georgia Southern University, and Pittsburg State University in the United States. As a pedagogue, Giuseppe Lupis has given masterclasses, including Valdosta State University; University of Southern Mississippi; and Volyn State University, Lutsk, Ukraine, and has taught also at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Michigan; The Ascoli Piceno Festival, Italy; and the Vale Veneto Festival, Brazil.
A former pupil of renowned concert pianist Aldo Ciccolini, Giuseppe Lupis holds a Doctorate in Musical Arts in piano performance at the University of Georgia, USA, where he worked under the tutelage of Richard Zimdars, and a Piano Performance degree earned with highest honors at the Bari Conservatory, Italy. In addition, Giuseppe Lupis studied with jazz pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, and at La Scala Theatre Academy in Milan. He is a recipient of the 2005 Franz Liszt Award and the 2003 Concerto Competition Award at the University of Georgia, and second prize winner of the 1989 Italian National Bela Bartok piano competition.
For his research on Keith Emerson’s music, currently referenced in Wikipedia.de and other websites, Giuseppe Lupis received a 2007 Excellence in Research Award from The University of Georgia. Music Sales Corporation/G. Schirmer, New York, NY granted him worldwide non-exclusive rights to “publish, copy, print, and sell” Emerson’s suite Tarkus, which is now available in Lupis’ arrangement for piano solo on www.lulu.com.
Giuseppe Lupis is currently writing the biography of Italian pianist Luciano Sangiorgi (1921-1992)
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