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Emily White

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Emily White

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Emily White’s career has taken her to London’s Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre, New York’s Carnegie Hall (Isaac Stern Auditorium), and to countries in Western and Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as throughout the United States and Canada. Ms. White has performed as guest recitalist at the International Szymanowski Festival in Poland and has appeared as soloist in Brahms’s Concerto No. 2 with the Filharmonia Sudecka, and she has completed two sponsored tours of Romania including a recital at Transylvania’s Philharmonic Hall and a performance of Prokofiev's Concerto No. 3 at the International Music Festival of Craiova. She has collaborated with the Emperor Quartet in London and has worked as official pianist for the Music Mountain Festival, the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, and the Gubbio Festival in Italy. Ms. White’s Grammy-nominated recording of Piano Works by Szymanowski on Arabesque has been aired on Strasbourg radio’s ACCENT 4 to a listening audience of nearly 100,000.

Born in Rye, New York and raised in Florida, Emily White has won top prizes at the International Young Concert Artists Competition of Royal Tunbridge Wells (UK), the International Mozart Competition (Austria), the Chopin Competition of Greater New York, and the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Auditions. While living in England as a London Symphony Orchestra scholar, she performed in private recital for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher under the auspices of the English National Trust. Dr. White holds degrees from the University of Maryland, The Juilliard School, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. Her teachers have included Sascha Gorodnitzki, Christopher Elton, and Solomon Mikowsky; ensemble coaches have included Samuel Sanders, Margo Garrett, and members of the Amadeus and Guarneri Quartets.