Dr. Maria Thompson Corley
Dr. Maria Thompson Corley has been featured in AfriClassical many times. She has just published a YouTube video:
Sorcerer’s Apprentice - solo piano (10:32)
Published on Jul 31, 2014
Paul Dukas, transcribed by my teacher, Gyorgy Sandor
Bio at Tellus360.com
Jamaican-born Canadian pianist Maria Thompson Corley
gave her first public performance at the age of eight. Since then, she
has appeared on radio, television, and concert stages in Canada, the
United States, Central America, the Caribbean, Bermuda and Europe, both
as a solo and collaborative artist, including performances in Budapest
at the Liszt Academy, and in Carnegie Recital Hall, Aaron Davis Hall and
Alice Tully Hall, all in New York City. She has collaborated with such
artists as Metropolitan Opera soprano Priscilla Baskerville,
internationally renowned clarinetist James Campbell, and Dara Morales,
principal second violinist in the Philadelphia Orchestra. Her
performances as soloist with orchestra include engagements with the
Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gunther Schuller, the
Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Gunzenhauser, and the
Allegro Chamber Orchestra, with Brian Norcross. She has also performed
with the Philadelphia-based Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, directed by
JeriLynne Johnson.
Her first CD, Dreamer, a collaboration with tenor Darryl Taylor, was released internationally on the Naxos label. Her subsequent discs, on Albany, include a recording of the first twelve of African American composer Leslie Adams’ etudes for solo piano and Soulscapes,
consisting of music for solo piano by African American women. Maria
Corley’s recording of “Troubled Water” by Margaret Bonds, included in Soulscapes, was featured in the HBO Family documentary, Kabreeya’s Salad Days. Her most recent solo CD is Of the Father’s Love Begotten: A Contemplative Christmas.
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Dr. Corley’s undergraduate work was completed at
the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where she studied with Alexandra
Munn, whose teachers include Irwin Freundlich. Maria Corley received
both masters and doctorate degrees in piano performance from the
Juilliard School, where she was a student of renowned Hungarian pianist
Gyorgy Sandor. Dr. Corley was the only pianist admitted into Juilliard’s
doctoral program for the period of two years. She was also chosen to
represent her alma mater in a tour of Central America, where she gave
performances and master classes.
Maria Corley is also half of Duo Chiaroscuro (Sara Male, cello).
She serves as the music director and organist for St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Lancaster, PA.
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Oh wow! What a pleasant surprise! :) Thank you, Bill! Maria [Dr. Maria Thompson Corley]
Comment by email:
Oh wow! What a pleasant surprise! :) Thank you, Bill! Maria [Dr. Maria Thompson Corley]
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