This document provides biographies for pianist Cahill Smith and cellist Heather Smith, who will be performing in a recital. Cahill Smith is an established concert pianist who has performed around the world. He holds a Doctorate from Eastman School of Music. Heather Smith is an active chamber and orchestral musician in the Chattanooga area who has performed with several orchestras and ensembles. The recital will feature works by Rachmaninoff, Medtner, and Myaskovsky for piano and cello.
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Charleston Music Teachers Association presents Cahill and Heather Smith in recital in 2019
This document provides biographies for pianist Cahill Smith and cellist Heather Smith, who will be performing in a recital. Cahill Smith is an established concert pianist who has performed around the world. He holds a Doctorate from Eastman School of Music. Heather Smith is an active chamber and orchestral musician in the Chattanooga area who has performed with several orchestras and ensembles. The recital will feature works by Rachmaninoff, Medtner, and Myaskovsky for piano and cello.
This document provides biographies for pianist Cahill Smith and cellist Heather Smith, who will be performing in a recital. Cahill Smith is an established concert pianist who has performed around the world. He holds a Doctorate from Eastman School of Music. Heather Smith is an active chamber and orchestral musician in the Chattanooga area who has performed with several orchestras and ensembles. The recital will feature works by Rachmaninoff, Medtner, and Myaskovsky for piano and cello.
chamber programs at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Lee
University, Southern Adventist University, Covenant College, and Austin
Peay State University. She also has performed with Intersection Contemporary Music Ensemble in Nashville. Heather has served as
principal cellist of the Orford Academy Orchestra in Quebec, Canada, as
well as the Colorado College Summer Music Festival Orchestra. She currently maintains a private cello studio in the Chattanooga area. Heather is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where she studied with David Ying of the Ying Quartet.
The Charleston Music Teachers Association is a professional association of music teachers affiliated with the South Carolina Music Teachers Association and Music Teachers National Association. Our purpose is to promote professional fraternity and to stimulate professional growth among music teachers.
In addition to monthly meetings with programs addressing a variety of topics for our members, we offer an annual scholarship audition honoring long time member Louise Mathis. This is the second year that we have expanded the scholarship auditions to a weekend of activities including tonight’s recital, and a masterclass tomorrow. Cahill Smith Special thanks to Joseph Fox of Fox Music House, Debbie Benson and the Charleston County School of the Arts, and the MTNA for making this Heather Smith weekend possible. Recital
Join us tomorrow, March 16, for a masterclass with Cahill Smith. The Friday, March 15, 2019 masterclass will feature students participating in the auditions. Fox Music House Time: 4:00p.m. Venue: Charleston County School of the Arts, Theater Admission is free.
Program Orchestra, the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, and others. His live and studio recordings have been broadcast on WQXR, New York’s Classical Music Radio Station, WCRB, Classical Radio Boston, and WSMC, Five Romances Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Chattanooga Public Radio. “In the Silence of the Secret Night” Op. 4, No. 3 (Fet) “Spring Waters” Op. 14, No. 11 (Tyutchev) Cahill gave his first recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 2013 with “Lilacs” Op. 21, No. 5 (Beketova) a program dedicated entirely to works of Nikolai Medtner. Two years later, “Melody” Op. 21, No. 9 (Nadson) in a review of his 2015 solo recital in the same venue, New York Concert “What Happiness” Op. 34, No. 12 (Fet) Review wrote, “Mr. Smith was in his element, revealing every twist and turn, every poignant repeat of the cyclic themes, with beautiful shimmering Forgotten Melodies, Op. 39 Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) colors I haven’t heard since Gilels played the Sonata reminiscenza in Meditazione Carnegie Hall in 1980.” In January of 2019, his debut album “Medtner: Romanza Forgotten Melodies” was featured as Classical Radio Boston’s “CD of the Primavera Week” for its “irresistible lyricism” and “a palpable sense of love – a real Canzona matinata affinity for the directness and honesty in Medtner’s music, which goes Sonata tragica straight to the heart.” This album was recorded at Yamaha Artist Services Salon in New York, on a Yamaha CFX. Cello Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 81 Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950) Cahill completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts at the Eastman School of Allegro moderato Music, where he served as the teaching assistant to Natalya Antonova. At Andante cantabile Eastman, Cahill was the inaugural recipient of the Douglas Lowry award for Allegro con spirito excellence in degree recital performance, won the Eastman Concerto Competition, and was awarded the Prize for Excellence in Teaching as a graduate assistant. Cahill completed his Master’s degree at the University of Michigan with Arthur Greene, and his Bachelor’s at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with Yakov Kasman. Cahill Smith currently serves About the artists as the Piano Area Coordinator on the faculty of Lee University, and also
Pianist Cahill Smith has performed in major venues in the United States serves as the Artistic Director of the Lee University International Piano and abroad, including four programs at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Festival and Competition (www.leeupiano.com) in the summer. Cahill is a the PolyTheater in Chongqing, China, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Yamaha Artist. Museum’s Calderwood Hall in Boston. Cahill has been featured as a concerto soloist with the National Ukranian Symphony Orchestra in Kiev, Heather Smith, cellist, performs regularly as a chamber and orchestral the Mongolian Symphony Orchestra in Hohhot, China, the Eastman musician. She plays frequently with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Philharmonia, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Chattanooga the Alabama Symphony, the Greenville Symphony, the Jackson Symphony, Symphony, the Butler Symphony Orchestra, the Mississippi Symphony and the Oak Ridge Symphony, and has recently performed in