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The program includes Corelli’s “Adagio,” Honegger’s “Sonata in D minor,” Koechlin’s “Sonata, Op. 66,” and Britten’s “Sonata in C, Op. 65.”
Selected as the 2008 International Steinway Artist, Nalley continues an active performing career while also teaching piano at the College of Music at Florida State University. He is also the Artist-Faculty in Residence at the Schlern International Music Festival and Academy in Italy.
He has won many competitions, made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall to great acclaim, has performed for numerous radio broadcasts and television programs, and has appeared as a soloist with many of the world's finest orchestras. Dr. Nalley is a native of Philadelphia, James is a summa cum laude graduate of Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music and the Eastman School of Music where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. A popular master class clinician and adjudicator, he has presented in over 60 different academic programs around the world and is a regular juror of the International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington, D.C., and the International Young Artist Competition in South Korea.
Professor Farny has been described as an eloquent performer whose "vibrant legatos" and "long lines had beauty and strength" (Buffalo News). She has performed as soloist with orchestras that include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Greeley Symphony Orchestra, The Abilene Philharmonic, The Erie Chamber Orchestra, and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra. While a student at Juilliard, Natasha Farny gave the premiere of Norwegian composer Olav Anton Thommessen's concerto with the New Juilliard Ensemble and performed Henri Dutilleux's concerto "Toute un Monde Lointain" with the Juilliard Symphony and conductor, Robert Spano.
