A Celebration of Piano Music from New (and Old) Worlds, with Reception

Emily White, piano
Featuring special guest performance by Azalea Kelley, winner of the 30th Annual International Chopin Piano Competition of Texas

Pianists EMILY WHITE andAZALEA KELLEY will grace us with music by Fryderyk Chopin, Karol Szymanowski, Yehudi Wyner,and Samuel Barber. 
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Commended by the New York Times and London Times, pianist Emily White was the first Juilliard student and first American fully sponsored by the London Symphony Orchestra for postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music. In her second year, after winning the Piano Prize at the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition, she was invited to give a private recital for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood. A top prizewinner at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg and the Chopin Competition of Greater New York, Emily White has appeared in recital at London’s Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre, New York’s Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, and as soloist with the National Orchestral Institute in Maryland, Lake Forest Symphony, Brooklyn Symphony, Lambeth Orchestra in London, Sudeten Philharmonic in Poland, and Oltenia Philharmonic in Romania.
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Azalea Kelley has received top prizes in the Texas International Chopin Competition in Corpus Christi, the 36th International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington, D.C., the Gulf Coast Steinway Society Competition and Birmingham Music Club Guild Scholarship Auditions in Alabama, the AMTL New York Young Performers’ Prize, and the 20th New York Music Competition.

*** General admission $25, student/Seniors $15, tickets are available at the door or for advance purchase above.  All tickets include both in-person and on-line attendance via live streaming service. Any purchases made after 3 pm on Friday August 12, will be sent a link to the livestream by Monday August 15, if not earlier.