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It’s hard to think of anyone better suited to playing Mary Lou Williams tunes than the woman who wrote the book about her. Pianist Deanna Witkowski just published her biography of the pioneering, individualistic jazz pianist. Despite daunting odds, with Witkowski’s New York band scattered across the country after the 2020 totalitarian takeover, she’s released […]
2019-02-25 00:55:00
TribLive.com: Pittsburgh Symphony performs Florence Price's Symphony No. 1 March 2, 8 PM
Hill Dance Academy Theatre Florence B. Price (1887-1953) Pittsburgh Tribune-Review JoAnne Klimovich Harrop Friday, February 22, 2019 The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has teamed with Hill District community members for the annual “Lift Every Voice” concert, a celebration of the neighborhood’s cultural legacy. The concert is at 8 p.m. March 2 at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts in Downtown Pittsburgh. Symphony and associate conductor Andres Franco will be joined by co-hosts Demeatria Boccella, founder of FashionAFRICANA, one of the leading African-inspired fashion and art events in Pittsburgh and Kiya Tomlin, founder of Kiya Tomlin Fashion. Other scheduled attendees include: vocalists Capathia Jenkins and Anqwenique, violinist Ade Williams and pianist Deanna Witkowski, the Lift Every Voice Unity Choir and the Hill Dance Academy Theatre. *** The program features Florence Price’s “Symphony No. 1 in […]
2018-05-19 05:51:00
Classical Music News of the Week, May 19, 2018
[…] for a successful music performance, helps build a crucial skill set which translates to any advanced study, and ultimately, any career path. Each Piano Portals student performs in at least one public concert, while attending performances by their globally-renowned faculty. In honor of Chairman and Board Member Frederick Frank (class of 1950) and Mary Tanner Frank, a special gala concert takes place on July 21, 2018 featuring celebrated international pianists, Hotchkiss Piano Program Director Fabio Witkowski and Resident Piano Faculty Gisele Nacif Witkowski; joining them are the Fine Arts Quartet, described as a "powerhouse of American chamber music," (Washington Post) and with "tone… both beguilingly tangy and warm" (The Strad), comprised of violinists Ralph Evans and Efim Boico, violist Gil Sharon, and cellist Niklas Schmidt. Following the success of the Hotchkiss School Music Program's Carnegie Hall debut performance in January 2018, the Summer Piano Portals Program makes its own Carnegie […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-11-13 00:41:52
The Circa Is Coming to Town Again
[…] Compagnie Käfig (choreographer Mourad Merzouki), for a new project in which they are incorporated as choreographed elements while performing on their respective instruments in concert with the dancers. The Debussy Quartet’s extensive discography includes the acclaimed Decca label release of the landmark Mozart Requiem recording, in the 1802 transcription by Peter Lichtenthal (about which a documentary film has also been made). The Arion label produced several volumes in the “French Music” collection (Bonnal, Ravel, Fauré, Witkowski, Lekeu) and the complete Shostakovich Quartets, among other works. The quartet’s mixed chamber music repertoire includes its highly regarded CD of the Brahms and Weber clarinet quintets with clarinetist Jean Francois Verdier and a highly acclaimed collaboration with the pianist François Chaplin in several Mozart piano concertos. In addition, their discography includes the complete works of Webern for string quartet (for Harmonia Mundi), which received the coveted « Choc » award of Le Monde […]
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