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PROGRAMME
A singular and committed personality, Célia chooses the repertoire she performs with care: American music (including her own transcriptions), French music, contemporary music and works by female composers all feature prominently in her programmes. A YAMAHA artist, she is the winner of numerous international competitions: Piano Campus, Fondation Banque Populaire, Cziffra, etc. She has been a guest at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Piano aux Jacobins, La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journée de Nantes, the Grand Théâtre de Harbin (China), Salamanca Hall (Japan), Wigmore Hall (London)… A much sought-after chamber musician, she has performed with Renaud Capuçon, Violaine Despeyroux, Elsa Dreisig, Marie-Laure Garnier, Olivia Gay, the Hanson Quartet, Léa Hennino, Héloïse Luzzati, Fiona McGown, Alexandre Pascal and others. Her first solo disc, American Touches (2018), is devoted to Gershwin and Bernstein, and Métamorphosis (2021) to Glass, Pépin and Ravel (5 Classica stars, contemporary disc of the week on France Musique, etc.). She also took part in a monograph on the unpublished works of Charlotte Sohy from La Boîte à Pépites, widely acclaimed by the international press. In January 2023, she released the CD ‘Chants Nostalgiques&
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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Nancy Galbraith's expansive and diverse catalog of chamber works includes compositions for every imaginable combination of instruments. More than a few of these works explore the many timbral possibilities of electro-acoustically enhanced solo instruments—most notably five concertos written for internationally celebrated Baroque flutest, Steven Schulz. Two of those works also include performances with Pittsburgh's popular rock trio, Cello Fury.
Through the years, Galbraith has enjoyed a great sense of creative freedom afforded to her by the availablity of so many virtuostic musicians living in the Pittsburgh area, along with the world-class faculty and student musicians at Carnegie Mellon University, who offer an endless store of versitility and enthusiasm.
1983: Galbraith's first publically performed chamber works—Dance, Nonet, and Time Cycle—appeared in premieres by the Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble and by Pittsburgh's Renaissance City Winds, who later commissioned and premiered Suite for Woodwind Quintet in 1985. The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble premiered Fantasia in 1987 and Into Light in 1989.
1994: Aeolian Muses was commissioned and premiered by Mexico's Trío Neos for their concert tour throu
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Viola
Bowed string instrument
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