Artist description An American classical pianist with a repertoire spanning three centuries with a focus on new music.

Music Style Classical Piano

Musical Influences Mozart, Bartok, Bach, Martinu, Prokofieff, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Webern, Brahms

Similar Artists Mozart, Bartók, Bach, Martinu, Prokofieff, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Webern, Brahms

Artist History Frances Burnett has appeared throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe as a recitalist, ensemble artist and soloist with orchestra. She began her concert activities at the age of eleven in Jacksonville, Florida. At sixteen she was awarded a scholarship to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and was a pupil of Karin Dayas, graduating with a Master of Music degree and high honors. A winner of many competitions including the National Federation of Music Clubs, she has studied with David Saperton, Gina Bachauer and Il Hona Kabos in New York, London, and Switzerland. In Italy she studied with Guido Agosti in Siena and Rome and was awarded the Diploma di Merito from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. Burnett’s numerous public appearances include concerts at Town Hall and Merkin Hall in New York, Jordan Hall and the Gardener Museum in Boston, the Phillips Gallery and three appearances at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. as well as numerous concerts at colleges and universities. In addition she has been featured on many radio and television broadcasts in the United States and has also toured Europe in such places as London, Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Zurich, Rome, Milan, and Malta.Burnett’s extensive repertoire represents composers of three centuries of diverse stylistic areas from Bach to Schoenberg and she has been a champion of new music—especially American music—in her recitals and recordings. She has presented world-premieres of compositions commissioned for her by Burton Beerman, Ralph Shapey, and William Thomas McKinley and she has several recordings featuring the music of Bartók, Martinu, and Barber among others.Burnett formerly taught piano performance at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, and at the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She has published articles in “Clavier” and has been awarded an MTNA Master Teachers Certificate.

Group Members One: Frances Burnett

Instruments Piano

Press Reviews “Burnett performed with a fine balance of technical prowess and emotional power.” (Washington Post)“… a fluent pianist and a musician with a big tone. There was a real warmth and substance in her playing. The total effect was one of whole-hearted music making, outgiving, and pleasing” (Boston Globe)“…Persistent surges of deep feeling were reconciled with the formal sophistication of this phenomenal Op. 1 (Berg Sonata)…Crystalline Mozart…and uncommonly enjoyable performance” (The Times, London)“Only good things can be said about the American pianist Frances Burnett who executed flawlessly a difficult and very tasteful program…” (Die Welt, Hamburg)

Location Bowling Green, OH - USA

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