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Pianist Michelle Cann makes history playing music composed by Black pioneer
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) Award-winning pianist Michelle Cann is taking center stage in her Philadelphia Orchestra debut with her performance of Florence Price s Piano Concerto in One Movement.
Cann said like Price, who was a musical prodigy and pioneer in the 1930s, she also had to overcome a lot of adversity as a classically trained Black musician. She kind of carved her own path even with the music she that she wrote. All of the pieces she wrote are a reflection of her as both a Black woman and also classically trained pianist, Cann said.
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ONEcomposer partners with Philadelphia Orchestra for Florence Price premiere
February 9, 2021
As the Philadelphia Orchestra took the stage in January to record its digital performances for the spring season, a pair of Cornell faculty were there to witness history in the making as part of their new arts advocacy initiative: ONEcomposer.
Housed in Cornell’s Department of Music, ONEcomposer celebrates musicians whose contributions have been historically erased, and its inaugural season is devoted to American composer Florence Price (1887-1953).
“Piano Concerto in One Movement” was a piece Price held in particularly high regard, often sending it to conductors as an example of her best work. Last year, ONEcomposer had secured funding for an on-campus performance of this work featuring pianist Michelle Cann, the newly appointed Eleanor Sokoloff Chair of Piano Studies at the Curtis Institute. But when the COVID pandemic struck, ONEcomposer co-founders Tamara Acosta, visiting lec
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The Royal Gazette) writes about pianist Michelle Cann, who has been appointed the inaugural Eleanor Sokoloff chair in piano studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Michelle Cann has received several honours as a pianist but it was her ability to work with others that got her hired at one of America’s top music schools.
In November she was appointed the inaugural Eleanor Sokoloff chair in piano studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “I was surprised when I found out,” said Ms Cann, who graduated from the school in 2013 and has worked there as a collaborative pianist for several years. “I am making a name for myself, but I am not quite on the A-list so that everyone in the world knows me.