Faculty Concert Series: Kate Miller and Calvin Hu - The 92nd Street Y, New York
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Faculty Concert Series: Kate Miller and Calvin Hu

Kate Miller and Calvin Hu

Ordinarily solo pianists, 92NY colleagues Kate Miller and Calvin Hu present a fun, rhythmic, humorous program which brings together different dance styles - Ravel’s classic La Valse and Eleanor Alberga’s 3-Day Mix - and combines them with less traditional duos like Steve Reich’s Clapping Music and a set for toy piano duo.

Program includes:

Steve Reich: Clapping Music
Sam Wu: Hyperlooping
Eleanor Alberga: 3-Day Mix
David Smooke: Toy With Me
Tonia Ko: Tired Thing
Andy Akiho: Karakurenai
Ravel: La Valse 4 Hands

Free and open to the public.

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Katherine Miller

Katherine is an active solo performer as well as chamber musician based in New York City …

Katherine Miller

Katherine is an active solo performer as well as chamber musician based in New York City. She has performed at some of the world’s most prestigious halls including the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as well as Boston’s Jordan Hall. Katherine has won numerous honors including NEC’s Piano Honors Competition, a prize in the American Protégé competition as well as many scholarships.

Katherine is a frequent performer of new music and music written by women and minorities. She believes that music is the most essential form of human communication and works to create a more inclusive concert experience. She believes this can best be achieved by creating a more diverse and innovative concert program. To further this goal, Katherine was awarded a grant in 2016 to create the Boston Women’s Music Project and premiered a feminist songbook, The Well-Tempered Woman, in 2019 with composer Stefania de Kenessey and Soprano Eugenia Dante.

As a teacher, Katherine’s goal is to equip her students with the ability and desire to make music throughout their life. She has worked with students of all ages, ranging from 3-60+. Katherine has been teaching for around 5 years. She emphasizes the importance of performance with her students and has prepared many of her students to participate in recitals throughout the city. Katherine’s prepares her students to feel confident expressing themselves musically and sharing their music with audiences of all sizes.

Katherine wants all of her students to experience the joy of expressing themselves through music. Every student finds a different aspect of music to be most fulfilling or exciting, and she encourages her students to find and follow their interests through our lessons. For each of Katherine’s students, she determines which aspects of music performance are meaningful to them and helps them achieve this at the piano. In addition, she strives to expose them to other aspects that she finds exciting and meaningful, broadening their experiences in music. Katherine encourages her students to take an active role in selecting what they want to work on and guides them to take an active role in their learning. Katherine always makes sure her students feel supported and encouraged and that she wants them to do the best that they can do. She believes this supportive atmosphere is crucial to the learning process so that students are comfortable taking risks and growing in their music making.

Katherine earned her Bachelor of Music degree from New England Conservatory where she studied with Bruce Brubaker and her Master of Music degree from Mannes School of Music where she studied with Thomas Sauer. Other major teachers have included Arkady Aronov and Dina Khudayberdieva. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Music at Stony Brook University, studying with Christina Dahl.

Calvin Hu

Dr. Calvin Hu is a pianist, chamber musician, and active photographer in both SF and NYC …

Calvin Hu

Dr. Calvin Hu is a pianist, chamber musician, and active photographer in both SF and NYC.

A passionate educator, Calvin was the 2019 recipient of the Suffolk Piano Teachers Foundation Scholarship, and has most recently served as an instructor and chamber coach at Stony Brook University’s undergraduate music program. He has also previously been on faculty at the Young Artist’s Program and maintains a private studio.

In the 2021-2022 year, Calvin was a recipient of the Silicon Valley Chamber Music Festival Fellowship program, and worked on a pilot program in conjunction with the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music for multi-month residency outreach music program.

As a chamber musician, Calvin has been mentored by pianist Gilbert Kalish through his Chamber Music Piano Intensive, as well as members of the Emerson String Quartet. In recent summers he has received fellowships from Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival and has performed recently alongside Alan Kay, Carol Wincenc, James Austin Smith, and David Requiro.

Calvin completed his undergraduate studies with Antoinette Perry and Inna Faliks at UCLA and his Master’s of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts in piano performance at Stony Brook University with Christina Dahl.

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