WELCOME
Concert Pianist/Composer and Recording Artist for Albany Records, Karen Walwyn, is known for her two volumes of music by American composers entitled Dark Fires along with her recent premiere recording of the Florence Price Concerto for Piano with the Black Music Repertory Ensemble by invitation of the Center for Black Music Research. As a Duke Mellon Faculty Fellow, (2011-12), she completed her most recent composition entitled “Of Dance & Struggle” a monumental choral work celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela. Ms. Walwyn spends equal amounts of time in writing, composing and performing internationally as well as conducting piano workshops and master classes.
“That Day” from Reflections on 9/11 by Karen Walwyn
COMPOSITIONAL DEBUT
As a budding composer, Ms. Walwyn made her compositional debut at the Kennedy Center receiving a standing ovation for her solo piano work entitled “Reflections on 9/11”. “Imaginatively conceived and executed, it both disturbingly transposes the catastrophe into appropriately cataclysmic sound and artistically suggests the aftermath’s lingering sense of numbing devastation.” – Robert Schulslaper of Fanfare Magazine. The demand for concerts of this seven-movement ‘tour de force’ work continuously takes her across the nation for command performances.
