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Melissa Marse
3+ albums
ClassicalpianoAmerican classical pianist
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Melissa Marse (born October 18, 1974) is an American classical pianist. Melissa Marse began piano study at the age of 2½ years with her mother, a private piano instructor.[1] Her parents were musicians who met while attending music school at Indiana University. She began accompanying for school and community choirs at age 7. At age 8, she began formal piano lessons with Betty Mallard at The University of Texas at Austin, where she later obtained the Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with Honors. In 1996, Marse moved to New Haven, Connecticut for graduate study at Yale University where her teachers were Claude Frank and Boris Berman. She subsequently moved to New York City, pursuing Professional Studies at The Juilliard School with Brian Zeger and the late Samuel Sanders in accompanying and Herbert Stessin in piano.[2] Marse then moved to Boston, where she was later awarded the Doctorate in Musical Arts in Collaborative Studies from New England Conservatory. Her teachers there were Irma Vallecillo and the late Patricia Zander. At age 16, Melissa won the Texas Junior Miss Pageant and subsequently won the talent portion of America’s Junior Miss (recently renamed Distinguished Young Women in 1992. Her first professional solo and chamber music concerts were held at the Victoria Bach Festival, where she was the New Young Artist at age 18.[3] Marse spent five summers as a fellowship student at the Aspen Music Festival beginning at the age of 19. She performed under the baton of
top songs
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Étude Op. 25: No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Aeolian Harp"
542Nocturne, Op. 9: No. 2 in E-Flat Major
283Nocturne, Op. 27: No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor
274Berceuse, Op. 57
155Nocturne, Op. 32: No. 1 in B Major
136Children's Corner: I. Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
97Reflets Dans L'eau
88Variations in E Major, B. 14 Variation IV - Meno mosso / Tempo di valse
89Children's Corner: III. Serenade for the Doll
710Jardins Sous La Pluie (From Estampes)
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