Piano with Dr. Ivo N.

Dear students, My name is Dr. Ivo, but my students call me Ethan. I recently moved to Los Angeles but I have taught students, all ages, for more than 15 years in New York City. One of the most important components of my teaching is making sure that students learn skills, which could be retrieved at any time in life, even after stopping piano. Here are some of the highlight of my performance career: I made my Carnegie Hall debut in 2006, and later took part of numerous music festivals: Fontainebleau France, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Additionally, I participated in master classes given by Jerome Lowenthal, Gilbert Kalish, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Joseph Kalichstein. In 2017, I earned my Doctoral Degree under the guidance of Dr. Marc Silverman and graduated with honors, including The Helen Cohn Award, given for his outstanding Doctoral Dissertation on the pedagogical investigation of the pianistic approach of Vladimir Horowitz and Martha Argerich.