Fernando Lopez
Mexican-born pianist Fernando Lopez began his piano studies with Omar Salazar, University of Sonora, at age 7. Early in his career, Mr. Lopez was the recipient of an artist grant from the government of Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Lopez holds performance as well as pedagogy degrees from the University of Arizona and the University of South Florida. His primary teachers include Pedro Vega, Tannis Gibson, and Svetozar Ivanov.
As a soloist, has participated in various music festivals such as the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, the Piano Academy & Festival International in St. Andrews, Canada, and the Brancaleoni International Music Festival in Piobbico, Italy. Additionally, Mr. Lopez is an active collaborative pianist, and organizes events and small venue concerts for piano, chamber ensembles, and opera favorites.
Currently, Mr. Lopez is an adjunct faculty at State College of Florida, teaching class piano and applied piano. He is co-founder of the Winold Music Festival, a chamber music festival for young artist in the Tampa Bay Area.
Mr. Lopez’s unique adaptive pedagogical approach and style is rooted in a deep understanding of sound production through strong foundational technique, notational literacy and fluency, and multi-level theory building blocks. Mr. Lopez enjoys a large private studio in Tampa, Florida.
DR. AGNIESZKA ZICK
Agnieszka Zick is a Polish-born pianist and educator. She performs as a soloist, chamber, and orchestra musician. Recently she has been a featured soloist with The Florida Wind Band in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. She performs regularly with a chamber group Amici Musicali in Tampa Bay area, and in 2017 she toured her native Poland (Poznań, Łódź, and Warsaw). Zick also enjoys collaborating as an orchestra pianist (Chautauqua Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, USF Symphony Orchestra, Life Sciences Orchestra, and The Florida Wind Band). Festival appearances include the Chautauqua Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Wiener Meisterkurse, Zakopane Academy of Art, Summer Music Academy in Kraków, and International Master Courses in Zamość and Białystok in Poland.
Zick maintains a keen interest in contemporary repertoire. She has worked with composers Louis Andriessen, David del Tredici, Augusta Read Thomas, and David Liptak. She commissioned works by Tyler Kline and Roger Zare.
In addition to performing, Zick is passionate about piano pedagogy. She was active in the Music Teachers National Association in Florida and Michigan (president of the University of Michigan MTNA Collegiate Chapter). Zick adjudicated several regional competitions and presented for the Oakland Teachers Piano Guild, Michigan. Conferences presentation include Michigan Music Teachers Association State Conference, Piano Pedagogy Symposium in Ohio, and Ann Arbor Teachers Guild.
Agnieszka Zick holds degrees from the F. Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw, Poland, the University of South Florida (Piano Performance; Chamber Music), and a DMA in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from the University of Michigan. Zick was on a faculty at Eckerd College, Schoolcraft College Piano Academy, and as a sabbatical replacement at the University of South Florida. Currently, she is a Piano Instructor at Berkley Preparatory School – Music Conservatory, and a pianist at Bayshore Baptist Church. Zick is a recipient of the 2018 Hillsborough County Professional Development Artist Grant. She is currently an adjunct teacher of piano at the State College of Florida.
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