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Annie Nalezny
Virtuosity Diploma, Schola Cantorum, Paris
Annie Nalezny, piano, was born in Paris, where she studied music under the direction of Nadia Tangrine at the renowned Schola Cantorum. Upon completion of her studies and having received a diploma of virtuosity in piano, she was a professor of music at the Schola Cantorum for ten years. She has won several prizes for her playing, including first prize in “Pour la Musique par la Musique”, laureate in the Bach-Albert Leveque competition, Prix d’Honneur in the Leopold Bellan competition, and first prize in the Claude Kahn competition.She has performed frequently throughout the Bay Area, including appearances at colleges and junior colleges, the Alameda Mozart Festival, a solo recital in 1985 at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland and for the Community Concert Series,a division of Columbia Artists Management. A recent review describes her “…lucidity of understanding, her clarity of technique” and states that “her playing combines emotional range and control, power and delicacy, precise staccato work and graceful lyricism.”
Ms. Nalezny is a member of MTAC, Berkeley Piano Club, Etude Club, Women’s Musicians Club of San Francisco and the Contra Costa Performing Arts Society. She has taught privately in Berkeley since 1974 and joined the faculty of the Crowden Center for Music in the Community in 2005.