Samantha Ege, pianist

The Mills College Music Department, Center for Contemporary Music, and Performing Arts Center present Mills Music Now 2021-2022

SAMANTHA EGE
Dewing Piano Recital

Samantha Ege performs a recital of solo piano music by African American women composers, including Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. Dr. Samantha Ege is an award-winning researcher, internationally recognized concert pianist, and renowned public speaker.

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In-Person: $15/General, $10 Seniors/Students, Free with valid Mills ID.
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Live Stream: Free -or- Pay What You Wish.
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Samantha Ege website:
https://www.samanthaege.com/

More details:
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Program

Margaret Bonds:
Spiritual Suite
Valley of the Bones
The Bells
Troubled Water

Florence Price:
Fantasie Nègre No. 1 in E Minor

Zenobia Powell Perry:
Homage

Betty Jackson King:
Four Seasonal Sketches
Spring Intermezzo
Summer Interlude
Autumn Dance
Winter Holiday

Nora Holt:
Negro Dance

VítÄ›zslava Kaprálová:
Sonata Appassionata, Op. 6

Florence Price:
Fantasie Nègre No. 2 in G Minor
 
Dr Samantha Ege belongs to a new generation of practitioners who are redefining classical music and illuminating the diversity of its past, present, and future. Ege released her debut album, Four Women: Music for solo piano by Price, Kaprálová, Bilsland and Bonds (Wave Theory Records) in May 2018. She released Fantasie Nègre: The Piano Music of Florence Price in March 2021 (Lorelt). Fantasie Nègre received critical acclaim in BBC Music Magazine, The Telegraph, New York Times and Washington Post. She gave the world premiere performance of Fantasie Nègre at the London Festival of American Music in September 2021, followed by the second UK performance of Fantasie Nègre and the UK premiere of VítÄ›zslava Kaprálová’s Sonata Appassionata at her Barbican debut in November 2021. Her latest album is called Black Renaissance Woman: Piano Music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Betty Jackson King, and Helen Hagan (Lorelt). Ege is the Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music at Lincoln College, University of Oxford.
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The Dewing Piano Recital Series is made possible by a legacy gift from pianist Janet Dewing, a Mills graduate of the class of 1927.

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Category: Arts | Performing Arts | Music Time: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm