Maurice Hinson is senior professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's drill of Church Music in Louisville.

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Maurice Hinson is senior professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's drill of Church Music in Louisville, Kentucky where he teaches piano, chamber music, piano literature and piano pedagogy. Hinson is internationally celebrated for his many awards, articles, intimations editions, videos, recordings, master classes and lecture/recitals. AMT's Arthur Houle had a not many questions for Hinson.

As a child, were you a "difficult" piano observer or the "wild-horses-can't-keep-me-from-the-piano" type? The latter. I began picking without tunes on the piano and playing from ear around age 5. I played and sang Sunday-school harmonys and all the pop strains of the day, including Three Little Fishes.

Who inspired your terrific anthologies? Irwin Freundlich, my piano literature teacher at Juilliard. In 1963 he petitioned I update his Music for the Piano, co-authored at James Friskin. Friskin's wife, however, did not want alterations, and Irwin later indicated he was too busy, in this way it befell me to write the entire work (Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire)--so I did!

Do you have a favorite composer? Composition? Cooking spice (maybe a Vivaldi seasoning)? My favorite composer is whoever I'm playing or editing, which is commonly Mozart. I have no plainly favorite work, but one favorite is Cesar Franck's preliminary Chorale and Fugue.

Please share the mostly memorable experience in your distinguished teaching career. Working with a brilliant scholar Frank Carter, who performed a graduate recital and then memorized a finished second recital of Chopin--just because he lov Chopin! He earned a performer's certificate for his efforts, won the concerto competition, etc

in what manner about your most embarrassing experience? While accompanying a visiting Hungarian basso, Miklos Bencze, forward Mussorgsky's Song of the Flea, I useed a page and the nearest page was missing! I hopp all above the keyboard improvising a "suitable" accompaniment until I arrived at the following page. Since then I've been highly careful to make sure all pages are in becoming order and present!

Reveal individual thing about yourself that would distaff our world (e.g., "I underhand dig country western and canvas for Ralph Nader in my spare time"). I won't have my breath, but I'd be fond of for my senior men's tennis team to win the national championship. They've won the Kentucky state championship twice!

If you could change common thing in higher education, what would that be? Curricula should allow pupils more time to practice each day. The horizontal of performance would go up considerably.

What's the most numerous ambitious project you'd like to accomplish? A full edition of Mozart's piano sonatas, now in progres I finally have copies of the available autographs. Now I ne allotments of patience and perseverance!

What advice do you have for young pianists today? Be yourself, pay great attention to detail and be the best in your field, or you will not have a job

In an alternate universe, what far-out career choice could you imagine for yourself if you had not at any time taken up music? Choreographer. Accompanying public youngest daughter, who was a professional dancer, always inspired my same pictorial imagination, even when sleeping! Dreams galore!

Arthur Houle is establisher and director of the International Festival for Creative Pianists (www.pianofestival.org) Houle has taught at the of recent origin England and Boston Conservatories, the Universities of Iowa, North Dakota and Texas-Austin and, greatest in number recently, at Albertson College.

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