In 1992 Mr. Pratt won the Naumburg International Competition and two years later was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Since then, he has played numerous recitals throughout the US including performances at , Kennedy Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. His many orchestral performances include appearances with the New York FACULTY ARTIST Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra and the , , SERIES PRESENTS Indianapolis, Atlanta, Seattle, Utah, , St. Louis, National, Detroit and New Jersey symphonies among many others. Summer festival engagements include Ravinia, Blossom, Wolf Trap, Caramoor and Aspen, the Hollywood Bowl and the Mostly Mozart Festival in Tokyo. Internationally, Mr. Pratt has toured Japan four times and performed in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, , Colombia and South Africa. SOYEON LEE, As a conductor, he has conducted the Toledo, New Mexico, Vancouver WA, Winston-Salem, Santa Fe and Prince Georges County symphonies, the Northwest Sinfonietta, the Concertante di Chicago piano and several orchestras in Japan. On television, Mr. Pratt has performed on the Today Show, Good Morning America and Sesame Street, been AWADAGIN PRATT, profiled on CBS Sunday Morning. Mr. Pratt’s recordings for Angel/EMI include A Long Way From Normal, an all Beethoven Sonata CD, Live piano From South Africa, Transformations and an all Bach disc with the St. Lawrence String Quartet. His most recent recordings are the Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano with and a recording of the music of Judith Lang Zaimont with the Harlem Quartet .

Mr. Pratt is currently Professor of Piano and Chair of the Piano Department at CCM. He is also the Artistic Director of the Cincinnati World Piano Competition, as well as the Artistic Director of the Art of the Piano Festival at CCM.

Awadagin Pratt is a Yamaha artist. Saturday, October 11, 2014 Robert J. Werner Recital Hall 8:00 p.m.

CCM has become an All-Steinway School through the kindness of its donors. A generous gift by Patricia A. Corbett in her estate plan has played a key role in making this a reality. acclaimed by the New York Times as “absorbed and exhilarated.” They will return to the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in 2015 for the world premiere PROGRAM of Alexander Goehr’s work written for two . An active recording artist, she recorded her debut CD featuring sonatas Iberia Book I Isaac Albeniz of Scarlatti on the Naxos label, followed by a second CD of Liszt opera (1860-1909) transcriptions, both to critical acclaim. Her album, Re!nvented, was released La Valse Maurice Ravel by KOCH International Classics (E1) , and garnered her the 2009 Young Artist (1875-1937) Award from the Classical Recording Foundation. This season, Ms. Lee returns Soyeon Lee, piano to Toronto to record a double album featuring works of Scriabin for Naxos.

Ms. Lee has been rapturously received as guest soloist with numerous Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 1 orchestra in the and abroad including the Orchestra, (1797-1828) London Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra (South from Partita No. 2 for violin Korea), Orquesta de Valencia (Spain,) and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Chaconne (1685-1750) (Dominican Republic), collaborating with conductors such as Rafael Frühbeck arr. Ferruccio Busoni de Burgos, Jahja Ling, Jorge Mester, and Otto-Werner Mueller. (1866-1924) Awadagin Pratt, piano Ms. Lee earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and the Artist Diploma from The , where she won every award granted to pianists as a student. A Second Prize and Mozart Prize winner of the Cleveland SOYEON LEE International Piano Competition and a laureate of the Santander International First prize winner of the prestigious 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition in Spain, she has worked extensively with Richard Goode, Piano Competition and the 2004 Concert Artist Guild International Robert McDonald, Ursula Oppens, and Jerome Lowenthal. Ms. Lee is the co- Competition, Korean-American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee has been lauded founder and artistic director of Music by the Glass, a concert series dedicated by The New York Times as a pianist with “a huge, richly varied sound, a to bringing together young professionals in . She is a Yamaha lively imagination and a firm sense of style,” and by The Washington Post Artist, and makes her home in Cincinnati with her husband, Ran Dank, and for her “stunning command of the keyboard.” their nine-week old son, Noah. Ms. Lee’s recent seasons’ highlights include recitals in ’s Gardner AWADAGIN PRATT Museum, New York’s Weill and Zankel Recital Halls, San Francisco’s Herbst Born in Pittsburgh, Awadagin Pratt began studying piano at the age of six. Theatre, Auditorio de Musica de Nacional in Madrid, Chicago’s Ravinia Three years later, having moved to Normal, Illinois with his family, he also Festival, and Finland’s Mänttä Music Festival as well as appearances at began studying violin. At the age of 16 he entered the University of Illinois in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Rose Studio, and Kaplan Penthouse, where he studied piano, violin, and conducting. He subsequently enrolled at La Jolla, Music@Menlo, and Columbus Chamber Music Society, as a the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he became the first student in the member of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two. She also tours school’s history to receive diplomas in three performance areas - piano, violin extensively throughout the United States with her husband, pianist Ran and conducting. In recognition of this achievement and for his work in the Dank, in unique joint recitals combining solo and duo piano. Passionate field of classical music, Mr. Pratt recently received the Distinguished Alumni about new music, their performance of the world premiere of Fredric Award from Johns Hopkins. He also has an Honorary Doctorate from Illinois Rzewki’s Four Hands at New York City’s (le) Poisson Rouge was critically Wesleyan University where he gave the commencement address in 2012.