Alumna Recital

Ravel: Miroirs  (Noctuelles, Oiseaux tristes, Une barque sur l'ocean, Alborada del gracioso, La vallee des cloches) 

intermission

Liszt Ballade No. 2 in B minor S 171

Schumann Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 22

A native of New York at Simon's Rock alumna (A.A. '03), Manon Hutton-DeWys has appeared in concert throughout the United States and Europe to critical acclaim. Most recently she was named winner of the second annual Young Artists' Competition in conjunction with Keys to the Future, a festival for contemporary piano music in downtown New York City. Manon was the recipient of many awards during her time at Bard College, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2006, including the Richard M. Siegel Memorial Prize in music, the Reader's Digest Foundation Scholarship, and the $1,000 Margaret Creal Shaefer Prize. As a two-time winner of the Bard College concerto competition she first appeared as a soloist with the Bard College Community Orchestra and later with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra. Manon has participated in a number of summer music festivals and institutes, including The Rome Festival in Rome, Italy, the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College of Music, and the Classics Abroad Paris Piano Program at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, France, all of which she attended as a scholarship student. In the 2008-09 season Manon will be performing throughout New York City in the annual keyboard and chamber music festivals at Mannes College of Music, at the Keys to the Future Festival at Greenwich House School of Music, and in recital with cellist Izabela Buchkowska at the Polish Consulate. Manon is currently completing her Master of Music degree at Mannes College of Music where she studies with Jerome Rose. She is a fourth generation student of Franz Liszt through her former teacher German Diez, his teacher Claudio Arrau, and Arrau's teacher Martin Krause who was a pupil of Liszt.