Event Schedule

Week 1

Sunday, May 31st, 2026

• Ana Maria Otamendi & Elena Lacheva – Collaborative Piano: Oh! The Places You Will Go!
• Amy Petrongelli – Finding Your Why 

Monday, June 1st, 2026

• Beginner’s IPA I 
• Advanced Italian Diction I
• Douglas Gordon: Musician’s Hand and Wrist 
• Open Coaching: Elvia Puccinelli

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026

• Beginner’s IPA II
• Advanced German Diction II
• Jonathan Feldman Masterclass – Instrumental Music 
• Amy Petrongelli – Life post-DMA; Navigating Academia
• Roundtable: Getting Past the Prescreening with Jonathan Feldman + Elvia Puccinelli

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026

• Advanced French Diction
• Stanford Olsen Masterclass – Let the Florid Arias Praise
• Elvia Puccinelli Masterclass – Music and Lyrics

Thursday, June 4th, 2026

• Opera Prep Step by Step with Elena Lacheva
• Q&A with Stanford Olsen
• Tyler Driskill – Show-Ready: Performing Skills for Music Theater

Friday, June 5th, 2026

• Mariah Boucher: The Choral Pianist Workshop
• Louise Toppin Masterclass – Singing Down the Barriers
• CPI Recital #1!

Saturday, June 6th, 2026

• • Amy Petrongelli Masterclass – Make ’em Laugh: Humor in Song
  • CPI Recital #2!

Week 2

Monday, June 8th, 2026

• • Learning Effectively with Ana María Otamendi
  • Martin Katz Masterclass – Poulenc’s Fiançailles pour rire
  • songSPARKS and Piano Trio Intensive Orientation!
  • Joint Panel: Singing Down the Barriers
  • Violin and Cello Masterclasses with Simón Gollo and Horacio Contreras

Tuesday, June 9th, 2026

• Jonathan Kuuskoski Music Entrepreneurship Lecture
• Blair Salter Masterclass – Words That Sing: Arias and Art Song
• Roundtable: Blair + Myra: The Future of Collaborative Piano in the US 
• Composers’ Listening Session (Okpebholo, Stewart, Switzer, Guth)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2026

• Blair Salter – Inside the Opera YAPs for Pianists and Singers
• Myra Huang Masterclass – From Studio to Stage: Arias
• songSPARKS: Contracts, Commissions, Permissions and Collaboration
• Ana Maria Otamendi – Instrumental Music  
• Shawn Okpebholo open session coachings

Thursday, June 11th, 2026

• • The Poem as Song, with Susan Stewart, poet
  • Simón Gollo Violin Masterclass
  • COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT with Shawn Okpebholo
  • songSPARKS Literati Reading with Susan Stewart

• CPI Faculty and Participant Concert

Friday, June 12th, 2026

• The Poem as Song, with Susan Stewart, poet (Part 2)
• Elena Abend Masterclass – Instrumental Music
• Jean Bernard Cerin: Songs from Haiti and the Dominican Republic
• CPI Faculty & Participant Concert

Saturday, June 13th, 2026

• Horacio Contreras Masterclass –  Instrumental Music
• Q&A with Caitlin Lynch
• CPI Concert

Week 3

Monday, June 15th, 2026

• COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT with Juhi Bansal
• Martin Katz Masterclass – Instrumental Music 
• Elizabeth Bishop – Works in Progress
• Juni Bansal: Mission
• Roundtable Discussion: Martin Katz, Howard Watkins, and Jorge Parodi

Tuesday, June 16th, 2026

• • Kyung-A Lee Masterclass – Instrumental Music
  • Q&A with Elizabeth Bishop 

• songSPARKS Outro Session with Juhi Bansal

• Howard Watkins – Preparing the Audition Aria
• songSPARKS Final Concert: Composition Participants Works Premieres

Wednesday, June 17th, 2026

• Caitlin Lynch – Singing the Story: Songs and Arias 
• Strings Workshop: Simón Gollo
• Martin Katz Masterclass – The Art of Lieder: From Schubert to Strauss

Thursday, June 18th, 2026

• • Ana Maria Otamendi Masterclass – Romance y Ritmo: Spanish Canción
  • Horacio Contreras – Latin American Works for Strings and Piano

• CPI Participant Recital

Friday, June 19th, 2026

• Adieu, Aufiedersehen, Goodbye RECITAL