Molly Morkoski
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Pianist Molly Morkoski has performed as a soloist and collaborative artist throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. 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. In June of 2007, she made her solo debut on Carnegieís Stern Auditorium stage in a prelude concert for the Emerson String Quartet Perspectives series offering Beethoven’s Bagatelles, Op. 126. Highlights for the fall of 2008, include a concert highlighting George Crumbís music at Zankel and a performance of Messiaen’s Vingt Regards on the St. Louis Symphony’s concert series at the Pulitzer.
An avid proponent of new music, Ms. Morkoski has worked with composers John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Gerald Barry, David Del Tredici, Lukas Foss, John Harbison, Aaron Jay Kernis, David Lang, Oliver Knussen, George Perle, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen. In the fall of 2006, she was invited to work in Vienna with Peter Sellars on John Adams’ newest opera, A Flowering Tree. And, in May of 2008, she gave the world premiere of Martin Kennedy’s Piano Concerto with the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra.
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 Award. 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 has recently been appointed Associate Professor at Lehman College in the Bronx.
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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. In June of 2007, she made her solo debut on Carnegieís Stern Auditorium stage in a prelude concert for the Emerson String Quartet Perspectives series offering Beethoven’s Bagatelles, Op. 126. Highlights for the fall of 2008, include a concert highlighting George Crumbís music at Zankel and a performance of Messiaen’s Vingt Regards on the St. Louis Symphony’s concert series at the Pulitzer.
An avid proponent of new music, Ms. Morkoski has worked with composers John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Gerald Barry, David Del Tredici, Lukas Foss, John Harbison, Aaron Jay Kernis, David Lang, Oliver Knussen, George Perle, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen. In the fall of 2006, she was invited to work in Vienna with Peter Sellars on John Adams’ newest opera, A Flowering Tree. And, in May of 2008, she gave the world premiere of Martin Kennedy’s Piano Concerto with the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra.
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 Award. 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 has recently been appointed Associate Professor at Lehman College in the Bronx.