Tanya Bartevyan Piano Recital “Freedom, Courage, and Love”

Composer Florence Price photo by George Nelidoff

Pianist Tanya Bartevyan offers a concert at the Concord Trinitarian Congregational Church featuring Florence Price’s Piano Sonata, Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata, works of Chopin, Schumann, and an improvisation. Florence Price was the first African American woman to have her symphony played by a major orchestra (Chicago Symphony 1933) after winning the 1932 Wanamaker competition. Her Piano Sonata, also a winner at the same competition, combines masterful romantic classical language with evocative African American spiritual and dance resonances. Tanya Bartevyan was born as a member of the Armenian community in Istanbul, Turkey and educated at Harvard University and the New England Conservatory of Music. She has performed extensively in major Boston venues and abroad. She is honored to be performing Price’s music and feels a personal connection to the composition’s multi cultural layers. The event is sponsored by the Concord 250th Committee and supported in part by the Concord Cultural Council.

Tanya Bartevyan playing the second movement of Price’s sonata at an Altadena fire relief fundraising event in February:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3nyFvta2QE

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