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April 7, 2015
Pianist Leonard O. Hayes Performs Links Scholarship Concert
Pianist
Leonard Otis Hayes, this year’s recipient of the annual scholarship
awarded by the Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated, to
an Eastman School of Music student, will present a recital at 3 p.m.
Sunday, April 26, in Kilbourn Hall.
The
award, a cooperative effort between the Rochester, New York Chapter,
The Links, Incorporated, and the Eastman School of Music, recognizes and
celebrates the extraordinary talent and academic achievement of an
African-American scholar musician.
Hayes’s
recital is free and open to the public. He will be joined by fellow
Eastman student Mary Russek, a violinist, in select movements from
Brahms’s Violin Sonata Op. 78 in G major. Hayes’s longtime colleague
Derrell Acon, a lyric bass who is a doctoral student at the
College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, will join
him to perform “Come dal ciel precipita” from Verdi’s Macbeth,
Howard Swanson’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” and an arrangement of
“Deep River” by Moses Hogan. In addition, Hayes’s solo performances
include Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 31 No. 2 in D minor; George
Walker’s Piano Sonata No. 1; and Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1 in A Major.
A
native of Dallas, Texas, Hayes received first prize in the 2009 and
2011 Debose National Piano Competitions and the 2011 Badger Collegiate
Piano Competition, and honorable mentions in both the 2013 Schubert Club
Scholarship Competition and the 2010 Zelpha Wells National Piano
Competition for Collegiate Artists. He was a winner of the 2009 Neale
Silva Young Artist Competition and a third prizewinner of the 2009
National Association of Negro Musicians Piano Competition.
Hayes
has performed in solo master classes for acclaimed pianists such as
Richard Goode, Robert McDonald, Jon Kimura Parker, Nelita True, Jade
Simmons, and Gilbert Kalish. In March 2011, he was invited to perform in
both solo and collaborative master classes at the Music Teacher’s
National Association Convention, with Robert Weirich and the duo of
Warren Jones and Denyce Graves. As a summer music festival participant,
Hayes attended the Adamant Music School, the Green Lake Music Festival,
and the Gijon International Piano Festival.
Hayes
earned a Bachelor of Music Degree from Lawrence University, where he
studied under the guidance of Catherine Kautsky and Dmitri Novgorodsky.
He also studied abroad at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Dutch
pianist Matthijs Verschoor.
Currently,
Hayes is pursuing a Master of Music Degree in Performance and
Literature at the Eastman School of Music in the studio of Douglas
Humpherys. At Eastman, Hayes serves as a graduate assistant in studio
accompanying and is a residential advisor in the Eastman Student Living
Center.
The
Links, Incorporated, founded in 1946, is one of the oldest and largest
volunteer service organizations of women who are committed to enriching,
sustaining and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African
Americans and other persons of African ancestry. The Rochester, New York
Chapter, The Links, Inc. was established in 1984 and supports programs
in the arts, services to youth, national trends and services,
international trends and services, and health and human services.
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Many thanks, Bill. Best regards. George [George Walker]
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