San Francisco Classical Voice: Lara Downes Is Showing Us How to Make Music Matter

Lara Downes

(Photo by Christine DiPasquale)

San Francisco Classical Voice

By Lou Fancher

February 15, 2016

Awarded a 2016 Sphinx Medal of Excellence given each year to distinguished, emerging classical artists of color, American pianist Lara Downes says the $50,000 career grant "just fell from the sky."  

If it did, it was a sky painted with the deeply exploratory brushstrokes of a hardworking artist whose interest in classical music extends well beyond notes or technique in fingers on piano keys.

Awarded a 2016 Sphinx Medal of Excellence given each year to distinguished, emerging classical artists of color, American pianist Lara Downes says the $50,000 career grant “just fell from the sky.” - See more at: https://www.sfcv.org/article/lara-downes-on-how-to-make-music-matter#sthash.fVKwNk6r.dpuf

By Lou Fancher ,

February 15, 2016