Adam Kent and Sibylle Johner
Adam Kent, D.M.A. (piano)
Adam Kent, D.M.A. has performed in recital, as soloist with orchestra, and in chamber music throughout the United States, Spain, Switzerland, and South America. A winner of the American Pianists Association Fellowship and Simone Belsky Music Awards, Dr. Kent also received top prizes in the Thomas Richner, the Juilliard Concerto, and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competitions and is a recipient of the Arthur Rubinstein Prize and the Harold Bauer Award.
In 1989 Dr. Kent made his New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and has been featured on radio stations WQXR, WNYC, and WFUV. Chamber music has been an important part of Dr. Kent’s concert life, most recently with the Damocles Trio, which he co-founded in 1996 with violinist Airi Yoshioka and cellist Sibylle Johner.
At The Juilliard School, where he received a D.M.A., he studied with Jerome Lowenthal and served as an adjunct professor. He holds B.M. and M.M. degrees from Manhattan School of Music, where he worked with Solomon Mikowsky.
Dr. Kent is on the Piano Faculties of Brooklyn College and New Jersey City University; and the Manhattan School of Music Precollege faculty since 1984.
He is widely requested as an adjudicator in numerous piano competitions, and his students have been prizewinners in the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division, the Brooklyn College Concerto, the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin, and the New York International Piano Competitions, among others.
Sibylle Johner, D.M.A (cello)
Sibylle Johner, D.M.A. conductor and cellist, has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe (often as a member of the Damocles Trio). The Swiss Landbote wrote, “whenever her eloquent cello spoke, one would suddenly pay attention, and immediately it became clear that a true artist was at work on this instrument.”
Ms. Johner taught and performed at the Summer Chamber Music Institute at Ohio Wesleyan University. She taught at Third Street from 1994-2014 and served as chairperson of the string department from 2000-2006. From 2005-2014, she conducted the Third Street Philharmonia orchestra. In 2012 she joined the faculty of the Brooklyn Waldorf School as conductor and director of the music program. Currently she also teaches cello at Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale.
For the past 27 years, Ms. Johner has taught students from the ages of 3 to 80 in every kind of setting: group classes, chamber music, string orchestra, symphonic orchestra, and one-on-one lessons. She works with a flexible approach tailored to the needs and abilities of each student or group. She believes students and teachers embark on a journey of learning together where both benefit and enjoy the music along the way.
Ms. Johner has studied music in Germany and Switzerland, at Drake and Rutgers Universities, and at The Juilliard School, where she was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Among Ms. Johner’s teachers have been Rudolf Baumberger, Bernard Greenhouse, Stefan Kartman, Harvey Shapiro, and Jeffrey Milarsky.
