On Thursday, as part of Mississippi University for Women’s Gordy Honors College Forum Series, Dr. Julia Mortyakova will discuss “The Hidden Gems of Classical Music: Women Composers.”
Free and open to the public, the presentation will begin at 6 p.m. in Poindexter Hall on the MUW campus.
Mortyakova will focus on women composers Clara Schumann and Cecile Chaminade, who were, as she says, “successful and prominent throughout their lives, but historically were erased from the classical performance canon.” She will perform some samples of the two composers’ work and discuss their importance to both music and women’s history.
Originally from Moscow, Mortyakova has given solo recitals and appeared as a soloist with orchestras and as a featured performer in music festivals throughout the United States as well as in Italy, Russia, and Ukraine, and her first independent solo piano album has sold internationally. She is a 2014 laureate of The American Prize international competition and locally has performed with the Starkville/MSU Symphony Orchestra. Currently Chair of the Department of Music at MUW, she is completing a book on the Russian-American composer Olga Harris.
For more information, contact Interim Director of the Honors College Kim Whitehead at [email protected], 662-241-6850, or visit web3.muw.edu/honors/forum.
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