The Dorothy Taubman Seminar
Faculty at Temple University
Maria Hubler
Seminar Co-Director
Maria E. Botelho Hubler, pianist and piano teacher earned her Master of Music degree from the Esther Boyer College of Music at Temple University as a student of Maria del Pico Taylor with a full scholarship from the Brazilian Government. She obtained her Bachelor of Music from Faculdades de Artes Alcantara Machado, Brazil. Her teachers include Gilberto Tinetti, Sergio Melardi, José Eduardo Martins and Attillio Mastrogiovanni.
She has participated in Master Classes with Dorothy Taubman, Magda Tagliaferro, Iara Bernetti and Charles Dobler. Ms. Botelho Hubler has been giving lectures on teaching the Taubman Technique to children for the past eight years for the Music Teachers Association - Pennsylvania, North Jersey and South Jersey chapters. She lectured for The Dorothy Taubman Seminar at the Lincoln Center, NY for the past two years. She has been adjudicating for the Music Teachers Association - Pennsylvania, North Jersey and South Jersey chapters for the past sixteen years.
Ms. Botelho Hubler has been teaching piano for over 25 years. She taught piano and the Suzuki Method at Temple University Preparatory Division in Philadelphia, the Academy of Community Music in Fort Washington, PA and the Haddonfield School of Performing Arts, Haddonfield, NJ. She currently has a full-time Piano Studio in Cherry Hill, NJ. She has been trained in the Suzuki Method with Dr. Ray Landers, Dr. Haruko Kataoka and Ms. Joan Krzywicki.
She received the Genia Robinor Award for Teaching Excellence and The Allison R. and Maria E. Drake Pedagogy Award for Excellence in Ensemble Teaching, presented by the Piano Teachers Society of America. Her students have won competitions in North Jersey and South Jersey and have performed at the Philadelphia Ethical Society, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall.
As a pianist she performed extensively in Brazil from 1980 to 1987, appearing at the prestigious Sala Cecilia Meirelles in Rio de Janeiro, sponsored by the National Institute of Music and National Foundation of Arts. In 1983, she performed with the Chamber Orchestra of the VIII International Summer Course of Brasilia, Brazil playing the Concerto in F Minor and the Concerto for Two Pianos in C Minor, both by J.S. Bach. In the United States, she has performed at the Philadelphia Ethical Society and other venues as a soloist and as an accompanist. In 1997, she performed the Concerto in C Minor Op. 37 by L. van Beethoven with the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia.
She participated twice in the Curso Universitario International the Musica Espanola in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, with a scholarship from the Spanish Government. In Madrid, she appeared in recital at Casa do Brasil, sponsored by the Brazilian Diplomatic Service.
As a Church musician, she has worked in Churches in the Philadelphia area as a pianist, organist and Choir Director for 14 years.
Silvanio Reis
Seminar Co-Director
Dr. Silvanio Reis is a concert pianist, a chamber musician, piano clinician and teacher based in Philadelphia. He maintains a nonstop schedule that includes music research, solo and chamber music recitals, and lectures in the United States and Brazil. As a pedagogue, he teaches piano at Temple University Preparatory School as well as at Temple University, in Philadelphia. He also serves as board member of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America (HKSNA) as well as faculty for the Dorothy Taubman Piano Seminar.
Besides modern piano, Dr. Reis enjoys performing and researching early music and music practice as well as historical keyboard repertoire (harpsichord, fortepiano and chamber organ). While at Temple University, he studied with Dr. Charles Abramovic and Dr. Joyce Lindorff, Prof. Maria del Pico Taylor, Prof. Harvey Wedeen and Prof. Lambert Orkis. His previous studies were with Dr. Sergio Gallo, Dr. Mauricy Martin and Prf. Phillip Thomson.
Dr. Reis holds a Doctoral of Musical Arts in Piano Performance, a Professional Studies Certificate and Master’s degree in piano performance and piano pedagogy from Temple University, and a Master’s in piano Performance from the University of Akron. He earned his Bacherlor’s degree in piano performance at the Instituto de Musica e Artes de Penapolis, Brazil.
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Angelin Chang
Seminar Faculty
Dr. Angelin Chang is America's first female GRAMMY® Award winning classical pianist. She is Yamaha Corporation of America's first Academic Performing Artist applying the Disklavier® to performance and teaching. Dr. Chang is currently Professor and Keyboard Area Coordinator at Cleveland State University.
2007 Grammy Award Winner for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra, internationally acclaimed pianist Dr. Angelin Chang is recognized for her sense of poetry and technical brilliance. She concertizes in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. Miss Chang’s concert tours have led her to such venues as the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), Lincoln Center (New York), Severance Hall (Cleveland), St. Martin-in-the-Fields (London), Zelazowa Wola (Warsaw), Beijing Concert Hall (China), Sala Luis Ángel Arango (Bogotá), Schnittke Philharmonic Hall (Russia) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Dr. Chang is the first American awarded First Prizes in both piano and chamber music during the same year from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (Paris Conservatoire).
As the first Artist-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Dr. Chang participated in the development and launching of the Arts for Everyone initiative. She has performed at the U.S Department of State, for the United Nations Women's Organization and before the Royal Family of Nepal. An active chamber musician, she performs regularly with the legendary violist Joseph de Pasquale, The de Pasquale String Quartet, and with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra.
Dr. Angelin Chang earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from Peabody Institute – Johns Hopkins University, Premier Prix - Piano and Premier Prix - Musique de Chambre from the Paris Conservatoire, Master of Music and Distinguished Performer Certificate from Indiana University, B.A. (French) and B.M. from Ball State University, and highest honors upon graduation from the Interlochen Arts Academy. Her piano teachers have included Michel Béroff, Marie-Françoise Bucquet, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Robert McDonald, Menahem Pressler, Pia Sebastiani, György Sebök, Louis-Claude Thirion and Dorothy Taubman.
Dr. Angelin Chang is head of keyboard studies and a professor of piano at Cleveland State University, where she is also coordinator for chamber music, and faculty advisor for the Bachelor of Arts/Music program and the Gamma Phi chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, a professional music society. Previously, Dr. Chang was on the piano faculty at Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey.
Recent release of her CDs include Soaring Spirit (Albany Records) with Angelin Chang on piano and Joseph de Pasquale on viola, Cleveland Chamber Symphony (TNC) with Angelin Chang as piano soloist in Olivier Messiaen’s Oiseaux Exotiques and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, and Angelin (Sabintu) in solo piano works.
Dr. Angelin Chang serves as the North America Representative for the Festival Afro-Asiatique Mondial des Oeuvres de Solidarité (FAMOUS), and President of the Panafrican Music and Arts Festival/Piano Division. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Great Lakes Theater Festival (Cleveland), Co-President of the Ohio Music Teachers Association Northeast District, and State Coordinator for the Music Teachers National Association Young Artists Competition and MTNA Chamber Music Competition.
Through her work with the Taubman Approach and Seminars in New York, Dr. Chang helps pianists develop virtuosity while liberating them from fatigue, pain and injury.
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Rev. Paul Maillet, P.S.S.
Seminar Faculty
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Before going to seminary to study for the priesthood, Father Paul Maillet, P.S.S. concertized extensively, performing as soloist with such orchestras as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony, as well as orchestras in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He has given solo and chamber music recitals in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and North Africa. Concert venues at which he has performed in the United States include the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie in New York, the Shriver Hall Series in Baltimore, and the Lively Arts Series at Stanford University. His recent and upcoming solo recitals include “Aigues-Vives en Musiques,” in France and the Schubert Society in Connecticut.
Fr. Maillet studied with Leon Fleisher, Dorothy Taubman, and Cecile Staub Genhart. He taught piano and ear-training at the Peabody Institute and piano at the Eastman School of Music. He was also a faculty member of the Dorothy Taubman School of Piano held at Amherst College and later at Williams College.
Fr. Maillet was ordained for the Archdiocese of Baltimore in 2001. As a member of the Society of Saint Sulpice, he has dedicated his ministry to the initial and ongoing formation
of priests. In preparation for his teaching in the seminary, he received a doctorate in Biblical Studies from The Catholic University of America in 2010. He is currently on the formation faculty at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, where he serves as Vice Rector and teaches Scripture and Biblical Hebrew. He has also taught Biblical Greek, and Ecclesiastical Latin.