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The Fredonia School of Music announced that the recital featuring guest pianist Claudia Hoca on Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. in Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall in Mason Hall is cancelled.
Hoca is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where her teachers included Eleanor Sokoloff and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. She has a Master's degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she studied with Leo Smit.
A Fulbright grant enabled her to return to her native Austria, where she pursued advanced studies under Bruno Seidlhofer.
Hoca is the recipient of numerous awards, including top prizes in the Chopin Young Pianist Competition and the Washington International Bach Competition. She has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Pops and the Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York. During the 1990s she played over 20 different concertos with the Buffalo Philharmonic as conducted by Semyon Bychkov, Christopher Keene, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Hermann Michael, Carlos Kalmar, and Maximiano Valdes.
She has appeared in recitals throughout the United States and abroad, and she is much sought after as a chamber music collaborator. Her live performance of Poulenc’s Aubade at the State University of New York at Purchase with the Philharmonia Virtuosi has recently been released on Essay Recordings under the title French Dressing.
