Naida Cole

The glamorous Naida Cole quickly established a profession as you of Canada’s leading pianists at an unusually early age. Her parents observed her remarkable awareness to music while she was still in the crib. Frequently as an infant, Cole could just end up being soothed to rest when she was crying with the playing of the Beethoven symphony over the stereo system. She started playing the violin at age group three, and before she was five, began on piano. In 1970, her family members transferred to Saudi Arabia. There, the family members could not look for a ideal piano teacher, therefore Cole started critical study from the flute. She continuing practicing these equipment, finding it not really a task but a chance, to discrete her feelings on whichever device she select. When the family members came back to Canada, Cole moved into the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Affiliate Diploma system in 1984. She graduated from it, with first-class honors, at age 13. Only 1 other person offers ever graduated at a young age, the past due, famous Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. She researched to get a yr, as an undergraduate, in the Université de Montréal, after that went to the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins College or university in Baltimore, U.S.A.. She gained two bachelor of music levels, one in flute (with her primary teacher becoming Robert Willoughby) and one in piano (with Leon Fleisher). She became among six pianists chosen to visit Cadenabbia, Italy, to review in the Fondazione Internazionale per il Pianoforte. There, she got Fleisher, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Dimitri Bashikirov, Fou T’song, and Charles Rosen as educators. She returned towards the Université de Montréal and acquired her get better at of music level in 1998, learning with Marc Durand. From then on, she started doctoral just work at Yale College or university. She has moved into and won awards at several nationwide and worldwide music competitions. Among these was the 1997 Vehicle Cliburn International Piano Competition, where she earned the Phyllis Jones Tilley Honor to discover the best efficiency from the commissioned function (William Bolcom’s Nine Bagatelles), as well as the Stephen de Groote Memorial Chamber Music Efficiency Honor. Her successes in the Cliburn competition brought her to wide interest in THE UNITED STATES. This has resulted in appearances using the Munich Philharmonic, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, as well as the Country wide Arts Center Orchestra of Canada, under conductors Kazimierz Kord, Gunther Herbig, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Cole offers appeared in some Western european concerts, with Gidon Kremer’s ensemble Kremerata Baltica, with his Lockenhaus Chamber Music Celebration, aswell as the Ottawa Chamber Music Celebrations. Her U.S. debut being a soloist was on the Kennedy Middle, and she’s also performed Carnegie Hall, the Dorothy Chandler Music Pavilion in LA, and Severance Hall in Cleveland. In 1999, she became the initial Canadian classical musician ever to get an exclusive agreement with the esteemed Deutsche Grammophon label. She’s released her initial disk, a recital of music of Fauré, Chabrier, and Ravel.