WHEN: May 19, 2012
TIME: 2:00PM
WHERE: An Die Musik Live
409 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Advance Tickets $20
on concert date: $25
Students  $10
on concert date: $15

Please send your checks made out to:
Susana de Moya Foundation,
P.O. Box 10040,
Towson, MD 21245.

For more information contact Rita Diaz at 410-560-2101  or Millie Ribeiro at 410-978-0808  or send us an Email: admin@sdmfoundation.org

Download a printable flyer to share with friends! Click on the link: VanessaPerezSDMFConcert19May2012

Part of the proceeds from this concertwill fund the 2012 Susana de Moya Awards

Listen to a sneak peak of  her upcoming CD release

ABOUT VANESSA PEREZ

Born in Miami, Perez was raised to age 11 in Venezuela, where she began her studies with Luminita Duca. In the U.S., she studied with noted Claudio Arrau pupils Ena Bronstein and Rosalina Sackstein; at 17, she won a full scholarship for London’s Royal Academy of Music to study with Christopher Elton. She continued her studies with pianists Lazar Berman and Franco Scala in Italy at the renowned Accademia Pianistica Incontri Col Maestro in Imola; she then completed post-graduate studies with Peter Frankl at Yale University and pianist Daniel Epstein in New York City. Perez made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2004, but her first performance in New York wasn’t in an uptown classical concert hall – it was at the downtown jazz shrine of the Blue Note, where Latin jazz star Arturo Sandoval had her perform his Sureña, a piece laced with Venezuelan folk melodies. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Venezuela, she currently resides just outside Manhattan, in New Jersey.

A watershed moment in the development of Perez’s artistry was her meeting, at age 14, with legendary pianist Claudio Arrau. Touched by her playing, he described the young musician as “a pianist whose technique, musicality and intelligent approach to the music she plays made a profound impression on me.” For Perez, “meeting Arrau changed me,” she says. “He was so humble, and his encouragement gave me so much strength when things became difficult, as they do. Some of his best advice wasn’t about playing the piano, per se. He took my hand and said, `You must learn about everything, not just music – live life to the fullest, all aspects of it. Only then will life come through your playing.’ I have always taken this to heart.”

In spring 2012, Perez will make her Telarc International debut with the release of an all-Chopin studio recording that features the 24 Preludes Op. 28, Fantasie in F minor Op. 49, Barcarolle Op. 60 and two Preludes from Op. 25. Even with influences in Chopin that range from Alfred Cortot to Claudio Arrau to Martha Argerich, Perez has made the music very much her own. She says: “The way I play this music may not be stereotypically `beautiful’ – it may be more raw than some. But I wanted the music to sound organic and real, above all. I didn’t want pretty. I wanted honest.”

Along with making recordings of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Berlin Symphony and Mozart’s D Minor Concerto with Venezuelan conductor Eduardo Marturet, Perez has been featured playing on such radio stations as WQXR New York, WFMT Chicago and WGBG Boston. Actively involved in contemporary music, Perez has collaborated with and performed works by such composers as Paul Moravec, Lowell Liebermann, Suzanne Farrin and Paul Desenne.

DEADLINE:
This year’s application packet postmark deadline is Friday, May 25th, 2012. Please note that this is a firm deadline and we cannot make exceptions.

How to Apply

Complete and return to us  the completed 2012 Application Packet, which can be downloaded and printed at the following link: SDMFApplicationPacket2012

The Susana de Moya Foundation hopes to support Dominican students in the Maryland/Washington DC area by providing an award as well as encouragement, mentors, and cultural enrichment activities. The essence of the award is to encourage students to remain in school up to completion of their Senior year in High School.

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Saturday March 10 , 2012
Contact Millie Ribeiro for details

Saturday May 12, 2012
Contact Nancy Eisenhuth for details.

Saturday June 9,2012
– Awards Committee meeting- details TBD

Saturday, August 18, 2012
Contact Dr. Diaz’s for details

September 2012 –
Awards Luncheon details TBD

"I was even serenaded by an up and coming Latin artist". 2010 Awards Luncheon.

A Review of the 2010 Awards Luncheon by
Money Smart Fashion:

“SSBF and I were invited to attend the Susana de Moya Foundation’s Fundraising Luncheon on Sunday afternoon by one of SSBF’s students. The Susana de Moya Foundations purpose is to “merit acdemic excellence and inspire Dominican youth” and SSBF’s student had applied for and been awarded a scholarship through this foundation! Pretty impressive for a 6th grader I would say. I don’t think I knew what a scholarship was in 6th grade..