Rebecca Penneys

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Rebecca Penneys (born 1946) is an American-born pianist of Russian-Jewish descent. Penneys is a recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral soloist, educator, and adjudicator. In 1965, she was the youngest contestant to have ever entered the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland:[1] “A sensational effect was created by the playing of Rebecca Penneys. She is a genius of the piano.”[2] Rebecca Penneys was born on October 2, 1946. Her mother, Rose Kaplan Penneys (1912–2010), worked for social causes, and her father, Alexander Penneys (1912–1994), was a radiologist. Sol Kaplan, her uncle, was a pianist-conductor-composer, and her cousin, Boris Gorelick, was an artist. Raised as a prodigy, Penneys grew up in Los Angeles studying piano from the age of 3, and dance from the age of 5. Her primary mentors in California were Carmelita Maracci, dance, Victoria Front and Aube Tzerko, piano, and Leonard Stein, composition. She performed her first solo piano recital at the age of 9 and performed as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the age of 11. Other mentors were Rosina Lhévinne and Artur Rubinstein.[1] Penneys attended Beverly Hills High School and continued her formal education at Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, studying piano with Gyogry Sebok and Menahem Pressler, chamber music with Janos Starker and Josef Gingold, and composition with Iannis Xenakis. She was awarded the unprecedented Special Critics’ Prize at the SeventhInternational

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All Brahms

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Music of the Dance

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Penneys, Rebecca: An Eastman Recital

Rebecca Penneys & Steinway

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Chopin: Etudes (Complete)

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Recital Gems From Chautauqua

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Bicentennial Tribute: works by Chopin and Schumann

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Rebecca Penneys Steinway

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The Voice of the Piano

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Chopin Etudes (Complete)

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Eastman Faculty Showcase, 1991: Rebecca Pennys

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Rebecca Penneys & Steinway (Fryderyk Chopin - Ludwig van Beethoven - Alexander Siloti)

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