MTD Events
Guest Artist Recital: Julia Siciliano, piano
Date and Time
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Sherman van Solkema Recital Hall
Description
Award-winning concert pianist, Julia Siciliano has been heralded as a
musician with
'fabulous creative power' by the Bonn
General-Anzeiger. Ms. Siciliano has become a well respected
and
anticipated rising talent on the world stage, being invited as a solo
artist by many
prestigious orchestras, and festivals, most
recently with the Orquestra Sinfónica de la Region de
Murcia for
the MurciArt Music Festival. A winner of many local and international
piano
competitions, Julia has won top prizes at the Sicily
International Piano Competition, Heida
Hermanns International
Competition, Iowa Piano Competition, and MTNA National
Competition. A highly active chamber musician, Julia has been invited
to perform on concert
series and festivals with the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players, the Euskadiko
Orchestra's
'Miramon Matinees', Donostia Musika series at Teatro Victoria Eugenia
in San
Sebastián, Spain, and the La Verdi chamber music series in
Teatro Gerolamo di Milano. She has
given recitals with
Metropolitan Opera stars Amanda Pabyan, Eric Owens, and Marina
Domashenko, and internationally acclaimed instrumentalists Hayoung
Choi, Simone Lamsma,
and Alexei Ogrintchouk. Most notably, Julia
performed the complete 'accompanied sonatas' of
Beethoven in the
year 2020 at the Teatro Victoria Eugenia in Donostia-San Sebastián,
Spain, and
in various venues throughout the United States, France,
and Sweden.
Julia has an active performing career in both solo and chamber music
capacities across stages in
North America, Central America, Europe
and Asia. She has performed multiple times live on
Chicago radio
station WFMT, Detroit's historic Scarab Club, Cincinnati Music Hall,
the
Bulgarian Consulate in New York City, Teatro Nacional of
Gautemala, MalmöLive in Malmö,
Sweden, Teatro Victoria Eugenia in
San Sebastián, Spain, Palazzo Biscari in Catania, Italy,
Teatro
Gerolamo in Milan, Italy, Parvis de l'église Notre-Dame d'Espérance in
Cannes,
Deutsche Telekom Headquarters in Bonn, Clairmont Hall in
Tel Aviv, Rachmaninov Hall in
Moscow, and Kioi Hall in Tokyo.
Her debut solo album "Dream Catchers", a two disc album
featuring small scale works by
Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert,
Ravel and Debussy, released in 2016 to great acclaim. Fanfare
Magazine declared 'this release has merit as a career milestone' and
leaves 'no doubt about the
devotion and seriousness of Siciliano's
approach to music." Gramophone Magazine praised her
"fine technique and natural musicality" pinpointing her
"masterful delicacy, harmonic motion,
and timing" in
Debussy's Images II.
Siciliano holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she
studied with Nelita True,
and the University of Michigan, where
she studied with Logan Skelton.
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Contact
Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance
(616) 331-3484