Leah Kang

Music Appreciation Series:

A dazzling array of musical talents will be showcased throughout the season during these hour-long programs, organized by John Beutel and sponsored by the Stoughton Area Senior Center. All Music Appreciation events are free and open to the public.

Pianist Leah Kang is a musician of diverse interests who received degrees in biology and public health at University of California, Los Angeles prior to pursuing professional studies in music. She has performed in the United States, Germany, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, and has been featured as a soloist with the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra, Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra, and the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra. As a two-time recipient of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) research fellowship, Leah spent her dissertation years as a visiting scholar at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn studying chamber music arrangements of Beethoven's music. Leah earned her MM and Diploma in Piano Performance from Indiana University and her DMA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has served on the music faculties of Antelope Valley College and Citrus College, as Associate Instructor of Music Theory at Indiana University, and as a piano instructor for the School of Music and Division of Continuing Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Program:

Rameau, Gavotte et six doubles

Ravel, Menuet sur le nom de Haydn

Ravel, À la manière de Borodine

Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales 

Scriabin, Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Op. 19 "Sonata-Fantasy"

Wild, Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin, "Embraceable You"

TICKETS: General Admission. Free-Will Donation