Leah Kang - A Salon Concert @ Schweikher House

Join us for an intimate performance by pianist Leah Kang in the living room of the historic Schweikher House.

Doors open 2:30, performance at 3pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Liszt, Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'este

Ravel, Ma Mère l'Oye arr. for solo piano by Ravel's friend Jacques Charlot

Yoshimatsu, Piano Folio and Pleiades Dances, selections

Kapustin, Etudes Op. 40, no. 6 & 1

Lili Boulanger - TBD

Germaine Tailleferre - TBD

Pianist Leah Kang (D.M.A.) is a musician of diverse interests who received degrees in biology and public health at the University of California, Los Angeles prior to pursuing professional studies in music. She has performed in the United States, Germany, Austria, France, Canada, Czech Republic, and has been featured as a soloist with the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra, Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra, and the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra in concertos by Beethoven and Chopin. She was awarded prizes in the International Siegfried Weishaupt Piano Competition and the American Prize Competition for Piano Performance (professional division) and her performances have been broadcast on SWR2 of Germany and WFMT in Chicago.

A dedicated teacher, Kang has served on the music faculties of Antelope Valley College and Citrus College, as Associate Instructor of Music Theory at Indiana University Bloomington, and as a piano instructor for the School of Music and Division of Continuing Studies at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She currently teaches piano, music appreciation, and music theory at Joliet Junior College, College of DuPage, and Midwest Conservatory of Music. As a two-time recipient of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) research fellowship, Kang spent her dissertation years as a visiting scholar at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. Her research explored arrangements of Beethoven’s works as created by his close contemporaries. She performed a lecture recital premiering rare chamber music arrangements of Beethoven's overtures and presented aspects of her research at international conferences such as “Beethoven-Perspektiven” (Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, Germany), "Beethoven 2020: Analytical and Performative Perspectives" (Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory, Amsterdam, Netherlands), and the World Piano Conference (Novi Sad, Serbia). Current interests involving pioneering French women composers from the early twentieth century have been supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Kang earned her Master of Music and Performer Diploma in Piano Performance from Indiana University Bloomington and her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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