Sunday Concert - Young Masters Recital Series

Kyle P. Walker

performs “Blacknotes”

February 19 at 1:30pm

A panoramic program aimed at closing the gap between traditional American art music and music influenced by African American culture.

Featuring excerpts from:

24 Negro Melodies by Samuel Coleridge Taylor

Down by the Riverside by Frederick Rzewski

Songs by George Gershwin

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A strong advocate for social equality, pianist Kyle Walker believes music can speak to social issues better than verbal language can, the understanding of which he brings to both traditional Western repertoire and that of the living world-wide composers with whom he collaborates.

His performances have been featured on media broadcasts including WQXR’s Mcgraw Hill Financial Young Artists Showcase, NPR’s Public Radio East, and UNC-TV, to name a few. Recently, he made his solo debut at New York’s Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, performed the Schumann piano concerto with the East Carolina University Symphony Orchestra, as well as presenting solo performances at Steinway Hall NYC, The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Birmingham Jefferson Concert Hall in Alabama, and the innovative music and multimedia venue Spectrum NYC. His festival performances include the Tibor Varga Music Festival, Switzerland, The Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, NC, The Ferrara Chamber Music Festival, VA, Enso String Quartet Chamber Music Festival, CT, the Beethoven Institute, NYC and PianoFest in the Hamptons, NY.

Mr. Walker is the 1st prize winner of the 2013 Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, also having taken 1st prize in The National Talent Hunt of Omega Psi Phi, and the Greensboro Music Teachers Association Young Artist competitions.

As a chamber musician, he is a frequent collaborator in premiere performance projects with living composers such as Brian Erickson, Matthew Lyon, Timothy Messina and Joan Szymko, whose work he premiered at the American Choral Directors Association in Memphis TN.

Walker performs with the newly founded “Artists By Any Other Name” based in NYC. The group endeavors to increase the accessibility of classical music by encouraging it’s symbiosis with other art forms, including dance, drama, poetry, and visual art.

Mr. Walker has performed in master classes with world-class presenters including Manahem Pressler, Joseph Kalichstein, Boris Berman, Robert McDonald, Paul Schenly, Adam Neiman and Julian Martin.

A dedicated teacher, Walker maintains an extremely active teaching studio compiled of private students as well as on piano faculty at Fort Lee School of Music, The Music School of New York City, and The Wifi Music School.

Kyle Walker received his Masters of Music from Mannes College, The New School for Music under the tutelage of Thomas Sauer. He holds a bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University and has studied with Benjamin Hochman, Keiko Sekino, Henry Doskey, and Clifton Matthews. Walker has received generous support of his upcoming artistic endeavors from the Peter M. Gross Fund.

He is currently embarking on a solo performance project entitled BlackNotes, which aims to explore the divides and connections between White American and Black American Art Music.

Carole Brill is the Founder/Director of the Young Masters Recital Series.