Guest Artists

Appearing with BLACKLEDGE Woodwind Quintet in 2003

Alan Lurie - piano

Alan Lurie, a Los Angeles native, has been at the keyboard since the age of 5.  He studied piano with his mother, Leona Lurie, and with Emanuel Bay and Aube Tzerko.  He studied chamber music with his father, Mitchell Lurie, and with Gabor Reijto, Feri Roth and Lawrence Dutton.  He was a scholarship student at the Music Academy of the West, and an award winner in the Coleman Chamber Music Auditions.  He has performed as a chamber music pianist and recitalist across the United States and in South America, and has been piano soloist with the Farmington Valley and Connecticut String Orchestras.  Alan gave the American premier performance of Robert Muczynski’s Time Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, the world premier performance of Robert Dix’s Trio for Flute, Viola and Clarinet, and conducted the American premier performance of the original Nonet version of the Brahms Serenade #1 in D-Major.  He has appeared on Morning Pro Musica, and was on the faculty of the Hartt Community Division as a Chamber Music teacher.  Alan is Professor and Head of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, and lives in Avon with his wife, Dr. Susanne Shrader, and their four parrots.