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Soirée Society of the Arts

Founded in 2005, the Soirée Society is dedicated to the culture of the soirée musicale.
Carnegie Room Concerts

Carnegie Room Concerts

The Soirée Society presents intimate piano recitals every week in the historic Carnegie Room.
Culture and Values

Culture and Values

The Soirée Society offers a deeper and more meaningful experience of classical music.
Composer Pianists

Composer Pianists

The Soirée Society commissions new works for the piano from leading composer pianists.
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Artistic Advisors
Anthony Newman

Anthony Newman is without question America's foremost Baroque interpreter. Described by Wynton Marsalis as "The High Priest of Bach", and by Time Magazine as "The High Priest of the Harpsichord," Newman has maintained a 40 year career as America's leading organist, harpsichordist and Bach specialist. His prodigious recording output include more than 170 cds on such labels as CBS, SONY, Deutsche Grammaphon, and Vox Masterworks. In 1989 Stereo Review voted his original instrument recording of Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto as "Record of the Year." His collaboration with Wynton Marsalis on Sony's "In Gabriel's Garden" was the best selling classical CD for 1997. As keyboard artists he has performed more than 60 times at Lincoln Center in NYC, and has collaborated with many of the 'greats' of music: Kathleen Battle, Itzhak Perlman, Eugenia Zukerman, John Nelson, Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Levine, Lorin Mazel, and Leonard Bernstein.

 

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Kimball Gallagher

Pianist Kimball Gallagher made his Carnegie Hall debut this past March to a sell out crowd at Weill Recital Hall and was hailed as "a dynamo.....brilliant and polished enough to have gone straight to disc, unedited" in the NY Concert Review. He has performed in New York at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, the Kosciusko Foundation, the Faust Harrison Piano Showroom, Yamaha Piano Salon, Steinway Hall. He has appeared as a guest of David Dubal at the Cervantes Institute, Greenwich Music House, The Polish Consulate, and the Puffin Cultural Forum. Internationally, he has also been heard in Prague, Lisbon, and Poland. Mr. Gallagher is the recipient of top prizes at the Corpus Christi International Piano Competition and at the San Antonio Tuesday Musical Club competition, in addition to being a finalist in the Washington International Competition.

 

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Matthew Cameron

Matthew Cameron has distinguished himself as a figure of “profound musical consciousness” (Michel Le Naour) and as one of today’s distinctive keyboard artists. His playing has been called “passionate and poetic” and “masterful” by critics, and noted piano author David Dubal said “he is firstly an artist, with all the seriousness and integrity that that implies.”

 

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