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Internationally-known Polish Pianist to play at TSU on Sunday, February 19, 2012.
French born, Polish raised pianist Graciella Kowalczyk will play a free piano concert at TSU in the Cox/Lewis Theater on Sunday, February 19, at 4:00 p.m. The concert is sponsored by the Steinway Piano Gallery and the TSU Department of Music. Dr. Kowalczyk has appeared in concerts and recitals as a soloist in over fifteen countries and four continents, including the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland; Sergei Rachmaninov Concert Hall in Moscow, Russia; Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria; and the Bellini Conservatory in Palermo, Italy. She holds prizes in competitions in Italy, Russia, Poland, and the United States. Her recital will include selections by Grieg, Rachmaninoff, and Chopin. In honor of Black Music History month, Dr. Kowalczyk will also play a selection by Tennessee composer, Clarence Cameron White. Visit her website at www.graciellakowalczyk.com
Now through February 26, Steinway Piano Gallery of Nashville will offer substantial savings on all new, used, and factory restored Steinway, Boston, Essex upright and grand pianos with ebony satin finish.
The timeless black satin piano hits all the right notes for romance!
Call 615-373-5901 to speak to a representative for me details!
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Belmont’s Jazz Piano Concert Series 
The inaugural concert of Belmont’s new Jazz Piano Concert Series will feature Billy Childs at 7:30 p.m. in Massey Concert Hall at Belmont University on Tuesday, January 10th.
The Belmont Jazz Piano series is sponsored by the Steinway Piano Gallery of Nashville.
BILLY CHILDS BIO
Billy Childs was born in Los Angeles on March 8th, 1957. Having demonstrated an aptitude for piano as early as age six, Childs developed rapidly, and at age sixteen entered the USC-sponsored Community School of the Performing Arts, studying theory with Marienne Uszler and piano with John Weisenfluh. In 1975, he entered USC as a composition major, graduating four years later with a bachelor of music in composition under the tutelage of Robert Linn.
Since then Mr. Childs has received a number of orchestral commissions from, among others: Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Kronos Quartet, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the American Brass Quintet, and the Dorian Wind Quintet.
After apprenticing with Freddie Hubbard and J.J. Johnson in the late seventies and early eighties, Childs’ solo jazz recording career began in 1988, when he released Take For Example, This… the first of four critically acclaimed albums on the Windham Hill Jazz label. He followed that album with Twilight Is Upon Us (1989), His April Touch (1992), and Portrait Of A Player (1993). His next album, I’ve Known Rivers on Stretch/GRP (now Stretch/Concord) was released in 1995, followed by The Child Within, released on the Shanachie record label in 1996. Most recently, Mr. Childs has recorded two volumes of jazz/chamber music – Lyric, Vol. 1 (2006) and Autumn: In Moving Pictures, Vol. 2 (2010) – music which is an amalgam of jazz and classical elements, developed with his ensemble through rehearsal, performance, and recording, over the course of ten years.
Thus far, in his career, Childs has garnered ten Grammy nominations and three Grammy awards: two for best instrumental composition (Into the Light from Lyric and The Path Among The Trees from Autumn: In Moving Pictures) and one for best arrangement accompanying a vocalist. In 2009, Childs was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2006 was awarded a Chamber Music America composer’s grant.
As a pianist Childs has recently performed with, among others, Yo-Yo Ma, Sting, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Kronos Quartet, Wynton Marsalis, Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter, the Ying String Quartet, the American Brass Quintet, and Chris Botti. In January 2010, The Detroit Symphony (Leonard Slatkin conducting) premiered Childs’ Concerto For Violin And Orchestra with Regina Carter as soloist. Upcoming commissions include a new piece for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and another new work for the Kronos String Quartet.
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