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| Pianist Judith Olson made her New
York debut with Alexander Schneider conducting Walter Piston's Concertino and
has since toured North, Central, and South America, Europe,
the Middle East, and Korea as soloist and in collaboration
with leading instrumentalists. Ms. Olson has appeared at
major halls including Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall,
and the John F. Kennedy for the Performing Arts, and has
participated in the festivals of Ankara, Bard, Bar Harbor,
Capri, Caramoor, and Newport. This versatile artist has performed
Beethoven at Bard, Rachmaninoff at Newport, and has appeared
as soloist for new music series in New York, including Composers
Collaborative and Composers Concordance. She has premiered
works written for her, including Otto Luening's last work
for piano, Fantasia Etudes (1994), and is the dedicatee
of works by William Mayer, Ned Rorem, and Olav Anton Thommessen.
She has recorded for Albany, Capstone, Newport Classics,
and RCA, and is currently recording the solo piano music
of jazz composer Ed Bland for Cambria. Ms. Olson is on the
faculty of the Bloomingdale School of Music. |
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