We are pleased to announce the engagement of pianist
CECILIA DUNOYER
as
2011 Guest Artist in Residence
Ms. Dunoyer will perform
Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major
with the Monteux School Orchestra
5 pm - Sunday July 10
“…a bravura performance…in the Ravel Concerto in G Major, Dunoyer
easily surmounted the pianistic problems…playing an exquisitely shaped and
musical performance. The second
movement, “adagio assai”, which gives much scope to the piano, was played to an
audience that hardly dared to breathe for fear of missing a note…”
Centre Daily Times
Cecilia Dunoyer’s 1997 New York debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, performed to a sold-out audience, garnered rave reviews. Harris Goldsmith praised her “accomplished pianism … her elegantly assured prestidigitation… her firm, richly bronzen tone and an unmistakable ear for orchestral textures and colors. If Fauré was well served by Ms. Dunoyer, her Debussy proved even more impressive…” An invitation to perform in New York again at Merkin Hall followed in May 1998 in a program of 20th-century French and Japanese music, which The New York Times most favorably reviewed
“…an eloquent young pianist… evocative… graceful”
The New York Times
Cecilia Dunoyer has concertized extensively in the United States and her native Europe, including recitals in Paris, New York, Washington, Vienna and Weimar, as well as a tour of the Baltic Sea to Russia, Finland and the Scandinavian countries. Critics noted “perfect complicity” and a “remarkable alchemy between rigor and freedom” in Dunoyer’s chamber music collaborations. She also performs regularly as a soloist with orchestra in concertos ranging from Mozart to Ravel, Poulenc, Prokofief and Gershwin.
Her expertise on French music has led to regular appearances at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. A series of eight concerts and lectures entitled “A Century of French Music” was so enthusiastically received that Dunoyer returned for lecture-recitals series on Claude Debussy in 2003, “1920’s Paris” in 2004, and Maurice Ravel in 2008.
Cecilia Dunoyer is the author of Marguerite Long, A Life in French Music published by Indiana University Press in 1993, and simultaneously translated in French and released in Paris the same year. The book has received critical acclaim and an interview with Dunoyer was featured on “Performance Today” on National Public Radio. Ms. Dunoyer was also the guest for a series of ten radio shows for Radio-Canada, of the CBC in Montreal.
February 2000 marked the publication of Debussy in Performance (Yale University Press) in which Dunoyer was invited to write about early performances of Debussy’s piano music. The book has been acclaimed in the London Literary Times and includes contributions from such eminent music personalities as Pierre Boulez and Inghelbrecht.
Cecilia Dunoyer grew up in Libya, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and France. Following her studies in Paris, she worked with the eminent Hungarian pianist, Gyorgy Sandor, earning both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in piano with High Distinction from the University of Michigan. She received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland in 1990. An Associate Fellow of Silliman College, Yale University, since 1984, Ms. Dunoyer has served on the piano faculty at Penn State University. She also teaches a full studio of private students who have won prizes and gone on to prestigious colleges.
State College, Pennsylvania is now home, with her husband Taylor Greer and their three children, François, Emile and Juliette.
