"Hello all! My name is Emiko Edwards, and I studied with Mrs. C for the majority of my precollege career! I received my bachelors in piano performance from The Juilliard School, and my masters and artist diploma from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Currently, I am based in Philadelphia where I teach piano performance and chamber music at St. Joseph’s University and maintain a private studio at Settlement Music School. I have taught at numerous summer programs, and this summer I will be heading the piano department at Luzerne Music Center’s Junior Session. As a performer, I have been featured in performances at Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Tenri Cultural Institute, Milton Court Concert Hall, and the Yamaha Salon, as well as Paul Hall (The Juilliard School). Personal highlights include a recital for the Barbican Center's (London) Sound Unbound Weekend, performances with the New Sussex Symphony, Westfield Symphony, Manalapan Battleground Symphony, Guildhall Brass Ensemble, Cambridge Graduate Orchestra, Bravura Philharmonic, and the American premier of an original composition by Karen Lefrak, as a featured performer in the Youth America Grand Prix Gala (David H. Koch Theater). I have a huge love for contemporary music. My performances of Gorecki's Piano Sonata and Four Preludes as well as Richard Rodney Bennett's Noctuary: Variations on a Theme by Scott Joplin have all been recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

-- Emiko