Joshua Sawicki, Piano Instructor
Joshua Sawicki is currently working on his Master’s degree in Piano Performance at the University of South Florida, Tampa, where he studies piano and chamber music with Svetozar Ivanov. He is a graduate teaching assistant in chamber music, and is the pianist in the President’s Trio -- a piano trio whose members receive scholarships and stipends funded by the president of USF. Joshua was recently awarded the Jacques Abrahms piano scholarship at USF, and won 2nd place in the 2011 Artist Series of Sarasota Piano Competition.
He graduated from Boston University in 2010 with a B.M. in Piano Performance; he also studied piano accompaniment, literature, and pedagogy with the B.U. piano faculty, and chamber music with members of the Muir String Quartet. Before attending college in Boston, he studied piano at the pre-college division of the Hartt School of Music, in Hartford, Connecticut, during which time he was a prize winner in various New England Piano competitions, including the Renée Fisher piano competition, the Musical Club of Hartford piano competition, and the Williams Chorale high school music competition.
For the past two summers he has attended the Chautauqua International Piano Festival and Competition, where he taught private lessons and was also a finalist in the competition and a prize winner in the contemporary category. In 2008, he studied abroad at the Royal College of Music in London, England, where he studied piano, harpsichord, accompaniment, jazz, and Alexander Technique.
Joshua has been teaching privately for almost 10 years, beginning when he was a “student-teacher” under the supervision of one of his past piano teachers, Paul Wendehack, from Farmington, Connecticut. He taught privately throughout his years as a high school student in Connecticut, as a student at the Chautauqua summer festival, as an undergraduate in Boston -- and now as a graduate student in Tampa, where he teaches at the Tampa Piano Academy and at the Patel Conservatory.