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Igor Lipinski (Pianist/Magician)
A Polish-born pianist, Igor Lipinski is an Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Oklahoma School of Music in Norman, Oklahoma. A graduate of Eastman and Northwestern, he maintains an active concert career since his orchestral debut with the Buffalo Philharmonic on NPR’s Performance Today. A passionate recording artist, he has released multiple albums under his own record label Vanishing Records and is a voting member of The Recording Academy. Recognized for his creative programming, he reimagined the traditional format of a piano recital with his Piano Illusions, a hybrid recital of music and magic, featured in concert venues across the world including New York City, Hong Kong, Lisbon, and Vienna. Originally developed for his honors senior thesis at Eastman, he collaborated on the program with Teller of Las Vegas duo Penn & Teller, won the WQXR Classical Comedy Contest at Caroline’s on Broadway, and performed it with symphony orchestras including Rochester Philharmonic, Shreveport Symphony, Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, and Lakes Area Music Festival Orchestra.
Anna Chenoweth Lipinski (Flutist)
Anna Chenoweth Lipinski is a flutist and flute teacher based in Norman, Oklahoma. A graduate from the University of Oklahoma, she maintains a vibrant private studio of pre-college flutists. She has appeared in Piano Illusions since 2022, including performances throughout Oklahoma as well as Vienna, Austria; Lisbon, Portugal; and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe premiere in 2024. Recently, she founded a nonprofit organization called The Songbird which provides scholarships for young musicians in Oklahoma to participate in music lessons tuition-free.
Paul Christman (Director)
Paul Christman is the director/co-writer of Igor Lipinski’s Piano Illusions which played the 2024 and 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2021, he received the Irene and Julian J. Rothbaum Professor of Excellence in the Arts Award from the University of Oklahoma. He teaches annually for Høyskolen Kristiania (Oslo, Norway) with past residencies at Balletakademien (Göteborg, Sweden) the Danish Academy of Musical Theatre (Fredericia), the Joop van den Ende Academy (Hamburg), and the Stage School (Hamburg). He has lectured at the Music in Gotham American Musical Theater Conference (NYC), Song, Stage and Screen Conferences (Winchester and London), Musical Theatre Educators Alliance Conferences (Orlando and NYC) and Putting It Together: Teaching Musical Theatre in U.K. Higher Education (Bath). A graduate of Arizona State University (Tempe) and Wright State University (Dayton), he has also completed acting training with the Michael Chekhov Association. His articles on composer Hugh Martin and the musical Pal Joey were published in the journal Studies in Musical Theatre. He is also co-editor of the songbook: The Songs of Hugh Martin: From Broadway to Hollywood and The West End (Hal Leonard). Paul has worked on musicals across the United States from California to Maine, toured in Germany with Hair, and music directed the Toronto premiere of A Class Act. From 1994-2004, he music directed 24 productions for Music Theatre of Wichita and has served on the OU faculty since 1999.