Pianists John Pivarnik and Nan Childress Orchard will present four-hand arrangements of a number of classical piano pieces.
Nan Childress is the chair of the Music Department at Caldwell College
John Pivarnik is organist/choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Essex Fells and also works as a freelance instrumental and vocal accompanist and performs solo recitals frequently in the metropolitan area.
Mr. Pivarnik did his undergraduate studies at Susquehanna University majoring in piano performance. His piano teachers there were Galen Deibler and Philip Clarke. He studied organ at Susquehanna with James Boeringer. As a Rotary Exchange student in high school he studied in Haderslev, Denmark, studying organ with Paul Aagaard Pedersen. He pursued graduate piano study with Maryan Filar at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and studied Lied-Begleitung and piano with Gunter Ludwig at Cologne Musik Hochschule in Cologne, Germany and serving as organist in Cologne-Marienburg. In the summer 2005 he studied for two weeks at the Franz Liszt Piano Academy in Sopron, Hungary with Dr. William Wellborn and Prof. Adam Wibrowski.
He is currently a student of Susan Starr. John Pivarnik teaches piano privately at his home studio in Madison, NJ and at Christ Church in Short Hills and performs frequently with the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey and Opera at Florham. He has performed at Grace Church, Madison for the annual Baroque Music Festivals.
Mr. Pivarnik has served most recently as organist/choirmaster at Christ Church in Short Hills, NJ and has supplied as substitute organist throughout the metropolitan area.
Funding for the Madison Holiday Arts Festival is provided by the Madison Downtown Development Commission in association with the Madison Arts and Culture Alliance.
