Kara Huber, piano

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world via LIVE@jacobs! Repertoire Beach: Ballade, Op. 6 (1894) Barber: Ballade, Op. 46 (1977) Meredith Monk: Paris (1972) Joan Tower: No Longer Very Clear (2000) Wild: Selections from “Virtuoso Etudes on Songs of George Gershwin” (1973/76) Beach: ‘Dreaming’ from “Four Sketches, Op. 15” (1892) L. Bernstein: Sonata (1938) Joan Tower: Ivory and Ebony (2009) About the Artist Hailed as “absolutely dazzling … in a word, flawless” (New York Concert Review) in her Carnegie Hall debut, pianist Kara Huber has performed across North America, Europe, and Australia, including lauded solo appearances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Piano Virtuoso Series at the Canadian Opera Company, the Rising Stars Piano Series in Southampton, New York, and the Steinway Series at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Huber has received numerous prizes and awards for her performances, including the Audience Favorite Award in the Cincinnati World Piano Competition. An in-demand recitalist and chamber musician, Huber received a Grammy nomination (Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance) for her work with the ARC Ensemble. Past seasons have included appearances with the Louisville Orchestra, Canadian Chamber Orchestra, Oakville Symphony, Scarborough Philharmonic, and York Symphony Orchestra; Huber has worked under the baton of Charles Dutoit, Gerard Schwarz, and Teddy Abrams. A graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, where she studied piano with Michael Coonrod, Huber received additional training at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with Awadagin Pratt and the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music with John Perry and Leon Fleisher. She earned a D. M. A. in Piano and Conducting at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and served on the faculty of the University of Louisville School of Music. Huber is the Marjorie Wood Drackett Piano Chair at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.