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Hendrick Motors and Mercedes-Benz Sponsor Western Piedmont Symphony

Hendrick Motors and Mercedes-Benz (http://www.mbusa.com/) along with the Western Piedmont Symphony (http://www.wpsymphony.org/) present the Masterworks II concert Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 8 PM in the P.E. Monroe Auditorium, Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC. The concert will feature Anthony M. Kelley on piano, Jarae Lauren Payton, Soprano and LaKeisha Ross as narrator. Selections will feature works by Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, Joseph Boulogne, Dolores White and the featured pianist, Anthony M. Kelley

Hendrick Motors and Mercedes-Benz are proud to continue their sponsorship for the 5th year by helping the Western Piedmont Symphony fulfill their mission to provide musical performances of distinction that enrich and enliven the community’s classical music experience and to nourish new audiences through school concerts and family outreach programs.

The featured artist of the November 7, 2009 Masterworks II series is composer/pianist Dr. Anthony M. Kelley. Dr. Kelley joined the Duke University (http://www.duke.edu/ ) music faculty in 2000 after serving as Composer-in-Residence with the Richmond Symphony for three years under a New Residencies Program Grant from Meet the Composer, Inc. He received his Bachelor¹s and Master¹s degrees from Duke University, and he earned a Ph.D. in Musical Composition from the University of California at Berkeley.

In 1999, Richmond Symphony premiered his piano concerto, Africamerica, with soloist Donal Fox. In 1998, The American Composers Orchestra gave the premier performance of a commissioned work, The Breaks, under the direction of Gerard Schwartz. The Baltimore, Detroit, Atlanta, North Carolina, Oakland East Bay, Marin (CA) and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras have also performed Kelley¹s symphonic music.

Among his awards and honors are the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters, and composition fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council (http://www.ncarts.org/ ), the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

His recent work, such as his soundtracks to the H. Lee Waters/Tom Whiteside film, Conjuring Bearden, [2006] and Dante James's film, The Doll [2007], explores music as linked with other media, arts, and sociological phenomena.

A new recording of Kelley¹s work, Grist for the Mill (commissioned by the Mallarme Chamber Players), was released in August, 2009.

He co-directs and performs in the improvisational Postmodern blues quartet called the BLAK Ensemble.

Last season, Dr. Kelley appeared as piano soloist with the Duke Symphony Orchestra in Africamerica.

Concert information and tickets for the November 7th concert are available via the Western Piedmont Symphony box office at (828)324-8603 or online at www.wpsymphony.org.