About Giuseppe Lupis
Giuseppe Lupis is Assistant Professor of Piano, Artist-Performer at Grand Valley State University. His interests range from Baroque to contemporary styles and from jazz to his own arrangements of popular music. As soloist Lupis has appeared in the US, South America, and Europe, and also with the Lviv, Latvian, and Bari Symphonies, the GVSU and UGA Symphony and the Ascoli Chamber Orchestra. 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; Neuwied, Germany; Contemporary Music Society, Krakow, Poland; 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. He has also performed with percussionist and composer Ney Rosauro, and his live DVD recording with guitar player Scotty Anderson was released in September 2008. His compact disc of Gershwin's solo works (Phoenix label, 2000) was declared exceptional by musicologist Alberto Cantù in Il Giornale (Milan, Italy).
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, Pittsburg State University, and Missouri Southern State University. As a pedagogue, Lupis has given masterclasses, including Chopin Music Lyceum (Krakow, Poland), Volyn State University (Lutsk, Ukraine), Pennsylvania State University, Valdosta State University, and University of Southern Mississippi; and has taught also at Blue Lakes Fine Arts Camp (Michigan), the Ascoli Piceno Festival (Italy), and the Vale Veneto Festival (Brazil).
A former pupil of renowned concert pianist Aldo Ciccolini, Lupis holds a Doctorate in Musical Arts in piano performance at the University of Georgia, under the tutelage of Richard Zimdars, and a piano performance degree earned with highest honors at the Bari Conservatory, Italy, with Pierluigi Camicia. In addition, he 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 Competiton Award at the University of Georgia, and second prize winner of the 1989 Italian National Béla Bartók piano competition.
For his research on Keith Emerson's music, currently referenced in Wikipedia, and other websites, Lupis received a 2007 Excellence in Research Award from the University of Georgia. Music Sales Corporation/G. Schirmer, New York, granted him worldwide non-exclusive rights to "arrange, print, publish, and sell" Emerson's suite Tarkus. Lupis is currently writing the biography of Italian pianist Luciano Sangiorgi (1921-1992) and has recently given presentations on his work in Italy including the UNAR Hall in Rome.
Memberships
- College Music Society
- Music Teacher National Association
- American Liszt Society