On June 22, SAIPC will again present some of San Antonio’s most talented pre-college pianists in recital at the Tuesday Musical Club, 3755 North St. Mary's Street.This recital is the third annual Summer Showcase of Young Pianists featuring local winners of the Texas Music Teachers’ Association Performance Contest, the Janice K. Hodges Competition, and the Tuesday Musical Club Competition.

The Summer Showcase is sponsored by the Fisher family in memory of their mother, longtime SAIPC board member Sheva Fisher.

Join us at 3:00 PM for an afternoon of beautiful music performed by some gifted young musicians. A reception will follow the performance.

Distinguished American composer, Joan Tower, has agreed to compose the
Andrew Gurwitz memorial composition for the 2009 piano competition. Hailed
as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time" in The New
Yorker magazine, Joan Tower was the first woman to receive the Grawemeyer
Award in Composition in 1990.

As part of the Ford Foundation's Made in America Series, Tower's 15-minute
orchestral piece Made in America went on to performances in every state in
the Union during the 2005-07 seasons. The Nashville Symphony and conductor
Leonard Slatkin recorded Made in America, Tambor, and Concerto for Orchestra
for the Naxos label, and that top-selling recording won three 2008 Grammy
awards: Best Classical Contemporary Composition, Best Classical Album, and
Best Orchestral Performance.

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