Scott Hansen is an undergraduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and will be graduating in May of 2019 with a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition. He has studied under Dr. Eduard Zilberkant for the last five years since enrolling at UAF.

In this Master Class session, Mr. Hansen performs select passages of his repertoire for Boris Slutsky and engages in an in-depth discussion of his performance. You'll get to hear valuable insights from this world-renowned educator and professor as he evaluates and critiques Mr. Hansen's interpretations of famous classical works.

Mr. Slutsky has presented master classes throughout North America, Europe and Asia and served as a jury member of many international piano competitions. Born in Moscow into a family of musicians, he received his early training at Moscow’s Gnessin School for Gifted Children as a student of Anna Kantor, and completed his formal studies at the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, studying with Nadia Reisenberg, Nina Svetlanova, John Browning and Joseph Seiger. Mr. Slutsky joined the faculty of The Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1993, where he currently serves as the Piano Department Chair.