Cicilia Yudha "Old, New, Borrowed and Blue"

3 pm Sunday March 9, 2025
Cicilia Yudha, solo piano recital

Award winning pianist Cicilia Yudha will return to New England to perform this creative and entertaining program. She holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), New England Conservatory, and the Doctor of Music degree from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is a frequent soloist with the Duke University Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Harry Davidson. A collaborative chamber musician, Yudha co-founded the Dana Piano Trio while on the faculty at Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music over the last decade, The group made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2019. Yudha is also a knowledgeable and passionate music educator, recently winning her fourth Steinway "Top Teacher" Award. She regularly presents Preview Concert Lectures for the Cleveland Orchestra. She lives in Hudson, OH with her husband and their two children.

In this program which she has whimsically titled, Yudha will offer gems of piano repertoire and rarely-performed works by three women composers: German Emilie Mayer (1812-1873), Indonesian Trisutji Kamal (1936-2021), and African American Margaret Bonds (1913-1972).

Yudha has enjoyed collaborations with musicologist Ewelina Boczkowska, tap dancer Claudia Rahardjanoto, Polish Folk Dance specialists Christine Cobb and Staś Kmieć, and Shakespeare scholar John Higgins. Navona Records released her debut CD Selected Piano Works by Robert Casadesus and Henri Dutilleux in September 2016. Her second CD, featuring two Piano trios by Emilie Mayer, was released in August, 2024.

In her youth, Cicilia Yudha won a scholarship to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and has since resided in America, becoming a U.S. citizen.  She won awards from CIM, the Cleveland Orchestra, New England Conservatory, and UNC Greensboro, resulting in solo performances with each orchestra. She won a Junior Composer Award through the Yamaha Music Foundation and Yayasan Pendidikan Musik’s Junior Original Concert program. She also received the Rosario Marciano Prize, resulting in a solo recital in Vienna.

Passionate about music education and community service, Dr. Yudha successfully established piano class and after-school enrichment programs for Youngstown City Schools. As a scholar and teacher of music teachers, she has presented lecture recitals at National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy “From the Artist Bench” webinar series, TEDx Talks, the Ohio Music Teachers Association Conferences, the College Music Society (CMS) National Conferences, and CMS Regional Conferences. Yudha currently teaches piano privately and at Akron Music Institute and the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio.

-- www.ciciliayudha.com

Program

J.S. Bach English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807
Robert Schumann Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 (1838)
Emilie Mayer Impromptu, Op. 44
Margaret Bonds Troubled Water
Trisutji Kamal Sunda Seascapes (selections)
Maurice Ravel Oiseaux tristes and Alborada del Gracioso from Miroirs

Youth under 18 are admitted free to all concerts presented by Friends of the Stone Church.

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Partial support for this program has been received from the Mass Cultural Council and from Local Cultural Councils of Barre, Hardwick-New Braintree, North Brookfield. Oakham and Petersham. Local Cultural Councils are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.