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EMIKO EDWARDS The American Prize Winner 2024

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“With feeling and insight, a pianist gets to the heart of Copland” - New York Classical Review

BIOGRAPHY Described as “dazzling” and “scintillating,” (Classical Source) and lauded for her “beautiful singing lines” and performances filled with “drama and energy” (Joan Tower), pianist Emiko Edwards continues to captivate audiences with her sincere musical interpretations and wide variety of tonal color, receiving awards and accolades for her performances throughout the United States and abroad.

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t age ten she had made her piano concerto debut, and by age eleven took top prize in the 18th International Young Artist Piano Competition, Washington, D.C. Since then, she has been a laureate of numerous competitions at the national and international level and is a 2024 winner of The American Prize.

Edwards has been featured in performances at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Milton Court Concert Hall (London), the Yamaha Salon, and on the BBC Total Immersion Series, and Barbican Centre’s Sound Unbound Festival. She holds a number of BBC credits to her name, her live performances recorded for and broadcast on BBC Radio3. Additional film and radio appearances include those broadcasted on WRTI and PBS.

Edwards’s personal highlights include her Lincoln Center debut recital performing all-Copland, "[An] exceptional meeting between composer and musician," (New York Classical Review), as well as her Chicago recital debut presented by the American Music Project, (“Critics Choice for 2024-2025,” Chicago Classical Review), and concerto engagements with the Guildhall Brass Ensemble and Cambridge Graduate Orchestra.

Additional highlights include the Philadelphia premiere of the Joan Tower Piano Concerto (1985) and the American premiere of “June” by Karen Lefrak at the David H. Koch Theater in collaboration with members of the NYC ballet.

Edwards is a graduate of The Juilliard School, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Temple University.

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MEDIA

Amy Beach: Ballade, op. 6 (1894)

Joan Tower Piano Concerto (Homage to Beethoven)

"In Evening Air" with Emiko Edwards and Aaron Copland @ Lincoln Center

​"She moved easily from sheer strength and chiseled articulation, a dexterous ringing sound in the fast music, and a streamlined elegance throughout.”

- NEW YORK CLASSICAL REVIEW Edwards curated a sweeping program that made for an illuminating survey of the last century of American keyboard music, which she performed with intelligence and virtuosity.

PRESS

– CHICAGO CLASSICAL REVIEW "Best of all, though, was Noctuary for piano – a 25-minute set of variations on Scott Joplin – originally intended for the ballet but dazzling enough in Emiko Edwards’s scintillating performance."

– CLASSICAL SOURCE Pianist Emiko Edwards emphasised the modernist energy of his (Henry Górecki) sonata and four preludes.

– THE GUARDIAN

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