Montgomery wrote the T.S. Eliot-inspired piece for Pratt. The concert will showcase Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, conducted by Yaniv Dinur
Since winning prestigious competitions in the early 1990s, pianist Awadagin Pratt has played and recorded works by Bach and Beethoven and other legendary composers, as many acclaimed classical-music pianist have. But this versatile pianist/conductor/educator is also committed to performing new music.
Pratt’s “Still Point” album includes music by four African-American composers, two women and two White men. Their median age is around 45, although Latvia’s Peteris Vasks is 76. The album is set for release in August. Pianist Awadagin Pratt will perform a Jessie Montgomery’s Rounds for Piano and String Orchestra with the San Diego Symphony on April 13-15,
The present-day Pratt has a busy touring schedule as both pianist and conductor. A professor of piano at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, he also serves as the artistic director of its Art of the Piano Festival. The festival commissioned or co-commissioned the works on his “Still Point.”
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