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Molly Morkoski

Pianist Molly Morkoski has performed as a soloist and collaborative artist throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Molly Morkoski's playing has been recognized by the New York Times as 'strong, profiled, nuanced……beautifully etched." The Boston Globe called her 'outstanding." She has been a featured soloist on the Making Music series at Carnegie Hall and the Tanglewood, Bang-on-a-Can, and Pacific Rim festivals, and has appeared as soloist with the Raleigh, Asheville, and Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestras.

An avid chamber musician, she has performed at the Aspen, Norfolk, and Tanglewood festivals; is a member of the Zankel Band and Open End Ensemble; and has collaborated with the NY Philharmonic Chamber Players, St. Louis Symphony Chamber Players, New World Symphony, Speculum Musicae, Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has collaborated with some of today's leading musicians including Dawn Upshaw, John Adams, and David Robertson. Under John Adams direction, she performed in the inaugural concert of Zankel Hall in 2003. And, in June of 2007, she made her solo debut on Carnegie's Stern Auditorium stage offering Beethoven's Bagatelles, Op. 126.

An avid proponent of new music, Ms. Morkoski has worked with composers John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Gerald Barry, William Bolcom, David Del Tredici, Lukas Foss, John Harbison, Aaron Jay Kernis, David Lang, Oliver Knussen, George Perle, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen. For the past three years, she has been working with Peter Sellars and John Adams on his newest opera, A Flowering Tree. This past season, she gave three world premieres of solo piano works by Dmitri Tymoczko, Andrew Waggoner, and Mark Grey. In May of 2008, she gave the world premiere of Martin Kennedy's Piano Concerto with the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. And, last December, she was invited by David Robertson to perform Messiaen's 'Vingt Regards sur L''enfant Jesus" in St Louis.

Ms. Morkoski was a Fulbright scholar to Paris, France where she was apprentice with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and she is also a recipient of the Teresa Sterne Career Grant and the Thayer-Ross Awards. She holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Indiana University in Bloomington, and a Doctorate degree from SUNY- Stony Brook. Ms. Morkoski currently lives in New York City and serves as Associate Professor at Lehman College in the Bronx.

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