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2018 Gilmore Young Artist Performs In Knoxville

Carlin Ma

Nineteen year-old pianist, Elliot Wuu will perform in Knoxville on Sunday, March 10th at 2:30pm as part of the Evelyn Miller Young Pianist Series. The recital includes Bach's Partita No.1, Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata, Debussy's Images, Book I, and selections by Rachmaninov.

Currently a student at Juilliard, Wuu won the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in 2015 and recently was named a 2018 Gilmore Young Artist, a prestigious award given every two years to two  pianists up to twenty-two years-old. Past recipients include Jonathan Biss and Yuja Wang.

The performance will be given in Powell Recital Hall in the Natalie Haslam Music Center on the UT campus. More information is available at www.youngpianistseries.com

Melony calls the beautiful mountains of Boone, N.C., home, although she was born near Greensboro, N.C. There’s just something about those Blue Ridge Mountains that got in her blood and never left after she moved there to attend Appalachian State University (ASU). While at ASU, she majored in piano performance and music therapy and began to cultivate a love for accompanying and for collaborating with other musicians. This soon led her to earn a master’s degree in collaborative piano at the University of Tennessee, which she attended from 2006-2008.