Sunday, May 21, 2017

WLBZ2.com: Master Pianist Awadagin Pratt [Playing With DaPonte String Quartet]

 
Awadagin Pratt Practices With the Daponte String Quartet


Bangor, Maine
Caroline Cornish & Krister Rollins
May 17, 2017

Awadagin Pratt first started playing piano at age 6. He picked up the violin at 9. He was so talented at both instruments he ended up graduating with diplomas in piano performance, violin performance, and conducting.

Soon after he decided to focus on piano and conducting - and his career really took off when he became the first African-American pianist to win an international prize, the Naumberg International Piano Competition.

  

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