James Lee III was born in 1975 in St. Joseph, Michigan, and began studying piano at what he considers a late age…12… when his father signed him up for lessons without his knowledge
It’s time to meet Performance Today's 2020 Classical Woman of the Year.A child of the 1970’s, Valerie Coleman hails from the traditionally black West End neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
Wynton Marsalis is the most famed member of a New Orleans musical dynasty. Born in 1961 to prominent jazz pianist and teacher Ellis Marsalis, he was named for another jazz great, pianist Wynton Kelly, and he got his first trumpet at age 6 from another famed trumpeter, Al Hirt.
Florence Beatrice Price was a daughter of a music teacher and of the only black dentist in Little Rock, Arkansas, where they had settled after losing their home and business in the great Chicago fire.