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SANDRA CARLOCK Piano “With some concert musicians, you don’t notice their skills. They simply take you by the arm and lead you into their magic country. ‘This,’ they seem to say, ‘is where Beethoven (or whoever) lives and this is what he told me.’ Just such an artist is Miss Sandra Carlock.” — The Petersfield Post Sandra Carlock’s piano playing projects deep feeling, drama, and excitement, illumined by imagination and intelligence. Yet her personality and considerable virtuosity remain consistently at the service of communicating a work of art. Sandra Carlock received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she was a scholarship student of Arthur Dann. Graduate work at the Juilliard School of Music followed and, while continuing her studies with Martin Canin, she completed her Master of Music degree at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, Long Island. She was a prizewinner in the first Emma Feldman Memorial Competition, and was then selected, by competitive audition, to be one of only five pianists represented by the National Music League, New York City, under whose management she has performed throughout the United States. Sandra enjoys a growing reputation in Great Britain and Europe. Her several tours each year of the United Kingdom have taken her from the South of England to Edinburgh, Scotland. In past seasons she has appeared three times at St. John’s, Smith Square, London (both lunchtime and an evening Debut recital). She has also performed recently and to great acclaim in Folkestone, England (The International Celebrity Series), and at the Jacqueline du Pré Hall, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University. She has presented solo recitals of the music of Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Edward MacDowell at the Finchcocks Festival, and the Cobbe Collection Trust at Hatchlands Park, both venues housing well-known British collections of early pianos; and in America she has performed and lectured regularly at The Frederick Collection of early instruments in Ashburnham, Mass. She has appeared in Austria and Norway, and has been invited to play in France, Germany and Denmark. In August of 2002 she became the first artist ever to play the music of the American composer, Edward MacDowell, at Troldhaugen, the former home of the composer Edvard Grieg, in Bergen, Norway, when she appeared on the summer concert series there. Recent appearances of note include a residency at the North Carolina School of the Arts, annual lecture/recitals for the Graduate Piano Seminar at the Juilliard School of Music, and performances in the British Concert Series in Washington, D.C., featuring Sandra in solo recitals at the British Embassy and the Georgetown Art Guild. In addition, Sandra performs annually for P&O Cruises, the major British cruise line, presenting solo recitals on board while en route to exciting ports throughout the world. Sandra holds the Arthur Judson Distinguished Faculty Chair in Piano at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia where she teaches by Special Arrangement. She is represented worldwide by J. Audrey Ellison, International Artists’ Management, London. An in-depth interview of Sandra by Malcolm Stewart has recently been published online in the Arts and Entertainment section of Origin Internet Magazine. The interview can be found on Sandra’s Website – http://www.sandracarlock.com. Her first CD, titled “Sandra Carlock In Recital - Liszt, Bach, Chopin”, was recorded entirely in live performance and without editing of any kind. “This is a young woman who not only possesses an awesome amount of musical force but such a natural fluency and expressiveness that she seems almost to be a part of her instrument, much as are the ivories or the strings.” — Peoria Journal Star J Audrey Ellison International Artists' Management Member of International Artist Managers’ Association 135 Stevenage Road, Fulham, London, SW6 6PB, U.K. Tel: +44 (0)20 7381 9751 Fax: +44 (0)20 7381 2406 E-Mail: Audrey@Ellison-Intl.Freeserve.co.uk Cellists Cello & Organ/Harpsichord Chamber Ensembles Cimbalom Composers Conductors Euphonium Guitarists Harpists Harpsichord Orchestras Organists Pianists Piano Accompanists Piano Duo Violinists Violists Baritone Soprano Tenor Vocal Ensembles Lecturers |