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We're happy to partner with the Birmingham New Music Festival to present pianist Chris Steele. This is this week's Live From My Living Room event.
We're happy to partner with the Birmingham New Music Festival to present pianist Chris Steele.
Direct links to this event which will stream live on our Facebook and YouTube pages.
Chris Steele performs new music for solo piano by living Alabama composers under the umbrella of the 2020 Birmingham New Music Festival (BNMF). On the program are works by Steele, Michael Coleman, Monroe Golden, Mark Lackey, Matthew Scott Phillips, and William Price. The BNMF is an annual event that is produced by the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, a nonprofit organization -- now in its 25th year -- with a dual mission of promoting music by Alabama composers and presenting concerts of newly-created art music to communities in Birmingham and beyond.
Chris Steele is Staff Pianist and Aural Skills Instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has held previous positions at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts as Staff Pianist, and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as both Lecturer of Music Theory and Ear Training as well as Faculty Fellow for the UNCG Grogan College Music Learning Community. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Accompanying and Chamber Music from UNCG where he studied with Andrew Harley and James Douglass, and held assistantships in both accompanying and music theory/ear training. He received two Masters degrees from The Florida State University in Piano Performance and Music Theory where he studied with Carolyn Bridger.
An active performer, Steele is a member of the UAB Chamber Trio, and has collaborated with members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. As a proponent of new music, he is a member of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, and has performed at the Society of Composers Region IV Conference and the Mid-South Chapter of the National Association of Composers Concert. He has also presented lecture-recitals on the late compositional style of Gabriel Fauré, including at UNCG’s biennial Focus on Piano Literature Symposium.
| Mon, Nov 18 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Tue, Nov 19 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Wed, Nov 20 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Thu, Nov 21 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Fri, Nov 22 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Nov 23 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Nov 24 | 1:00PM to 5:00PM |
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