Following her London debut at Wigmore Hall, pianist Sally Pinkas has garnered universal praise as an eloquent and versatile performer. Among career highlights are performances with the Boston Pops, the Aspen Philharmonia, New York’s Jupiter Symphony and Indonesia’s Bandung Symphony. Summer credits include the festivals at Marlboro, Aspen, Rockport and Apple Hill, as well as Masters de Pontlevoy in France, Havana Contemporary Festival in Cuba and Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory PianoFest in Vietnam. Recent tours took her to to Brazil on an extensive visit with the Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo, and to Madrid and Barcelona for solo recitals. Pinkas travels widely as a member of Ensemble Schumann and collaborates often with the Adaskin String Trio and the Apple Hill String Quartet. Equally at home in a recording studio, her discography features works by Mozart, Schumann, Fauré, Debussy, Gaubert, Bridge, Martinů, Shostakovich, Rochberg, Pinkham and Christian Wolff, released on the MSR, Centaur, Naxos, Toccata Classics and Mode labels. Recent releases include piano quintets by Miguel del Aguila with Cuarteto Latinoamericano (on Urtext Digital Classics), and by César Franck and Frank Bridge with the Apple Hill String Quartet (on MSR Classics). Pinkas holds performance degrees from Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Ph.D. in Composition from Brandeis University. Pianist-in-residence at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, she is Professor of Music at Dartmouth’s Music Department.
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