Dr. Janet Favreau received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, where she studied on scholarship, with Dr. Wolfgang Fetsch. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California. During this time, she spent two summers in Paris, France, studying French Literature at the Sorbonne University. Dr. Favreau was then offered a scholarship and teaching assistantship to the Advanced Artist Diploma program at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She returned to the United States in 1991, after living and teaching in Canada and Poland. From 1995-1999 she served on the board of the MTA of California, South Bay Branch, as First V-President and President. She is currently on the music faculty at Loyola Marymount University, LA Harbor College, has served on the faculty of LBCC, and has a successful private piano studio. She is a member of MTAC (Bach Festival Chairman), MTNA (State Competitions Chairman), Cambridge “Who’s Who”, Executive Board of the California Bach Festival, and other organizations.
Her students have participated in the World Piano Pedagogy Conference masterclasses and have won many prizes including the S. Cal. Junior Bach Festival, SCJ Bach Regionals, and at the SCJ Bach Complete Works (4 consecutive gold medals in the last 4 years), Bach Festival for Strings (chamber music), MTAC Panel Honors Competition, International Young Artists Peninsula Festival Competition, Liszt International Competition of Los Angeles, MTAC Scholarship Auditions, Artists of the Future Concerto Competition, Edith Knox Concerto Competition, Brentwood Concerto Competition, Torrance Concerto Competition, Voce Chamber Music Competition, Redlands Bowl Young Artists Competition, Los Angeles Philharmonic Rising Stars Showcase, CAPMT Sonata Competition, and others. Her students also have participated in masterclasses for MTAC and the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, MTAC annual convention recitals, Liszt Festival in Hungary-Austria, Austrian Piano Festival, Idyllwild Summer Piano Festival, International Institute for Young Musicians, Eastman School of Music Summer Academy, Oxford Summer Academy, and the Young Artists Program at the Tanglewood Festival. Dr. Favreau also judges for MTAC and MTNA piano competitions, the Southern California Junior Bach Festival, Peninsula Symphony “Edith Knox” Concerto Competition, IIYM International Piano Competition, and others. Her students have been accepted as piano performance majors to such schools as the Eastman School of Music, Jacobs School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Boston University, San Francisco Conservatory, UOP Conservatory, to name a few. She has performed solo and chamber music in the United States, and abroad. The French newspaper, Le Dauphine wrote “Janet ‘Favreau’ of the United States plays brilliantly!”
In 2005, Janet Favreau was granted a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California where she studied with master teacher John Perry. Dr. Favreau graduated with academic honors, as a member of Pi Kappa Lambda Honors Society.
Wojciech Kocyan was born in Poland. From age six to eighteen he studied with Krystyna Moszynska. He also studied with two of the world’s most esteemed piano pedagogues: Andrzej Jasinski in Poland, where he received his Masters Degree and with John Perry at the University of Southern California, where he received a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree.
Dr. Kocyan is a laureate of several international piano competitions, including F.Busoni and Viotti, as well as a special prizes winner of the XI International Chopin Competition and a First Prize winner of the Paderewski Piano Competition. He performed on all continents participating in music festivals such as Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis, Capri Festival, Bydgoszcz International Music Festival, H.M.Gorecki Festival, Beethovenfest, Paderewski Festival, Liszt Festival in Vienna, San Francisco Liszt Festival and the Chopin Festival in Paris. He was honored to be the final gala concert soloist of the Festival of Polish Pianism, and performed the Paderewski Piano Concerto with Maestro Jerzy Maksymiuk at the opening concert of the Fourth International Paderewski Piano Competition. He has recorded for Polish Television, Radio and Film and his performances were broadcast in Europe, United States and Australia. His solo and chamber music recordings can also be found on DUX label.
He was a subject of press articles in Poland, France, Italy, Germany, United States and Japan. Mr. Kocyan participated in two documentary films and several stage programs, including portraying Chopin in Barbara Wachowicz’s theatre play and most recently playing the part of Paderewski in a play staged in Los Angeles, California.
In September 2007 the Gramophone magazine, published in London and considered the world’s most prestigious classical music journal, chose Mr. Kocyan’s recording of Prokofiev, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff as one of 50 best classical recordings ever made, alongside recordings of such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau, Nicolaus Harnoncourt and Arthur Rubinstein. It also featured cover headline “The genius of Wojciech Kocyan”
Mr. Kocyan is Professor of Piano at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Françoise Régnat is a graduate of the Paris Conservatory with first prizes in both piano and chamber music and also holds an Artist Diploma from Indiana University where she studied with Gyorgy Sebok. She was a prize winner in the Casella International Competition in Naples, Italy and won the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York. She was also awarded the Grand Prix du Disque Franz Liszt in Budapest in 1977 for her recording of Liszt’s complete works for piano and violin. Her solo and collaborative performances have taken her to such venues as New York’s Alice Tully Hall and Hunter College, Boston’s Gardner Museum, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis as well as colleges and universities across the country. She has appeared at music festivals such as New Hampshire, Flagstaff, Mozart Festival in San Luis Obispo and Banff, Canada. In California, Ms. Régnat has performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Pasadena Symphony and the San Luis Obispo Symphony among others. She has premiered several solo and chamber works by the American composer Frank Campo and recorded them for the Leonore Library of Musical Masters label and Centaur Records. Ms. Régnat frequently adjudicates and gives master classes. She has been on the faculty at California State University, Northidge since 1972 and is currently Professor of Music.
Dr. Janet Favreau received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, where she studied on scholarship, with Dr. Wolfgang Fetsch. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California. During this time, she spent two summers in Paris, France, studying French Literature at the Sorbonne University. Dr. Favreau was then offered a scholarship and teaching assistantship to the Advanced Artist Diploma program at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She returned to the United States in 1991, after living and teaching in Canada and Poland. From 1995-1999 she served on the board of the MTA of California, South Bay Branch, as First V-President and President. She is currently on the music faculty at Loyola Marymount University, LA Harbor College, has served on the faculty of LBCC, and has a successful private piano studio. She is a member of MTAC (Bach Festival Chairman), MTNA (State Competitions Chairman), Cambridge “Who’s Who”, Executive Board of the California Bach Festival, and other organizations.
Wojciech Kocyan was born in Poland. From age six to eighteen he studied with Krystyna Moszynska. He also studied with two of the world’s most esteemed piano pedagogues: Andrzej Jasinski in Poland, where he received his Masters Degree and with John Perry at the University of Southern California, where he received a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree.
Françoise Régnat is a graduate of the Paris Conservatory with first prizes in both piano and chamber music and also holds an Artist Diploma from Indiana University where she studied with Gyorgy Sebok. She was a prize winner in the Casella International Competition in Naples, Italy and won the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York. She was also awarded the Grand Prix du Disque Franz Liszt in Budapest in 1977 for her recording of Liszt’s complete works for piano and violin. Her solo and collaborative performances have taken her to such venues as New York’s Alice Tully Hall and Hunter College, Boston’s Gardner Museum, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis as well as colleges and universities across the country. She has appeared at music festivals such as New Hampshire, Flagstaff, Mozart Festival in San Luis Obispo and Banff, Canada. In California, Ms. Régnat has performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Pasadena Symphony and the San Luis Obispo Symphony among others. She has premiered several solo and chamber works by the American composer Frank Campo and recorded them for the Leonore Library of Musical Masters label and Centaur Records. Ms. Régnat frequently adjudicates and gives master classes. She has been on the faculty at California State University, Northidge since 1972 and is currently Professor of Music.
