Norris Presents Winner of Sicily International Piano Competition

St. Charles, March 25 - Winner of the 2019 Sicily International Piano Festival, Julia Siciliano will present a concert Sunday, April 14 at 6:30 p.m., as the next event in the "Music in the Gallery" series at the Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles.

Heralded as a musician with “fabulous creative power” by the Bonn (Germany) General-Anzeiger, Siciliano performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, Central America, Europe and Asia. Her Norris gallery program will include Ravel’s Noble and Sentimental Waltzes, selections by Basque composers José María Usandizaga and Don Pedro Albéniz, Logan Skelton’s Civil War Variations and an arrangement of Liszt’s Dante Sonata.

“I’m very excited about this program,” Siciliano said. “I think the Norris audience will be wowed by the Basque pieces, and adore the Civil War Variations on the theme of When Johnny Comes Marching Home.”

Tickets, priced at $25 for adults and $20 for students, are available by calling 630-584-7200 or online at www.NorrisCulturalArts.com. A discount of $5 applies to all tickets purchased before the day of the concert.

Siciliano’s debut solo album “Dream Catchers,” a two-disc album featuring small scale works by Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Ravel and Debussy, was released in 2016 to great acclaim. Fanfare Magazine declared “this release has merit as a career milestone” and leaves “no doubt about the devotion and seriousness of Siciliano’s approach to music.” Gramophone Magazine praised her “fine technique and natural musicality” pinpointing her “masterful delicacy, harmonic motion, and timing” in Debussy’s Images II.

Siciliano holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Nelita True, and the University of Michigan, where she studied with Logan Skelton.