ACCOMPANYING


Accompanying

Mr. Pfannschmidt has extensive experience as a piano accompanist. He is a pianist at the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts in Hagerstown, MD and has also been collaborative piano faculty at the Greater Washington Suzuki Institute in Alexandria, Virginia since 2022. He accompanies many studio recitals, as well as for area competitions and festivals. He was the pianist for a performance of The Telephone by Giancarlo Menotti. You can hear that performance on YouTube by clicking here.


His principal piano teachers were Helen (Garvey) Jensen and Nancy Roldán. Additional studies on harpsichord were with Shirley Matthews.


Repertoire performed in concert or recording is listed below.

  • VIOLIN REPERTOIRE

    Suzuki Violin Repertoire: Volumes 1-7 – complete

    Barbara Barber: Volumes 1-6 – complete

    Bach, JS:

      Concerto in A Minor – complete

      Concerto in E Major – mvt 1

      Sonata in A Major, BWV 1015 – complete

    Barber – Violin Concerto – mvt 1

    Bartok: Rumanian Folk Dances – complete

    Beethoven:

      Romances in F and G

      Sonata in F Major “Spring” – mvt 1

    de Bériot:

      Concerto #9 in A minor – mvt 1

      Scène de Ballet

    Bloch: Nigun

    Boulanger, L.: Nocturne

    Bruch: Concerto in G Minor – complete

    Dvorak: Sonatina in G Major – mvt 1

    Haydn:

      Concerto in C Major – mvts 1 & 3

      Concerto in G Major – mvts 1 & 3

    Kabalevsky: Concerto in C – mvt 1

    Kreisler: 

      Caprice Viennois

      Liebesfreud

      Liebesleid

      Praeludium and Allegro

      Sicilienne and Rigaudon

      Tempo di Menuetto

    Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole – mvts 1 & 4

    Monti: Csardas

    Mozart:

      Concerto #2 in D – mvt 1

      Concerto #3 in G – complete

      Concerto #4 in D – complete

      Concerto #5 in A – complete

      Sonata in E Minor, K 304 –complete

    Shchedrin: In the Style of Albéniz

    Sibelius: Concerto – mvt 2

    Stravinsky: Suite Italienne – outer mvts

    St. Saëns:

      Concerto #3 in B Minor – complete 

      Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

    Tchaikovsky: Concerto – mvts 1 & 2

    Telemann: Concerto (TWV 51:G8) – complete

    Vieuxtemps: Concerto #4 - mvts 1, 2 & 4

    Viotti:

      Concerto #22 in A Minor – mvt 1

      Concerto #23 in G Major – mvts 1 & 3

    Vitali/Auer: Chaconne

    Wieniawski: Concerto in D minor – mvts 1 & 2

  • VIOLA REPERTOIRE

    Suzuki Viola Repertoire: Volumes 1-7 – complete

    Barbara Barber Collections: Volumes 1-5 – almost complete

    Bach, JC/Casadesus: Concerto in C minor – complete

    Bloch: 

      Meditation and Processional

      Suite Hebraïque - complete

    Brahms: 

      Sonata in Eb Major – mvt. 1

      Sonata in F minor – mvts 1-3

    Bruch: Romanze

    Clarke: 

      I'll Bid My Heart Be Still

      Passacaglia on an Old English Tune

    Druschetzky: Concerto – complete

         both D major and C major versions

    Hindemith: 

      Der Schwanendreher – mvt 1

      Meditation from "Nobilissima Visione"

    Hoffmeister: Concerto – complete

    Hummel: Fantasie

    Schubert: Sonata "Arpeggione" mvts 1 & 2

    Schumann: Adagio and Allegro

    Stamitz, Carl: Concerto No. 1 in D Major – complete

    Vanhal: Concerto in C Major – complete

    Walton: Concerto – mvt 1

    Zelter: Concerto in E-flat Major – complete


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