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Lester Green
- Biographical Sketch -
LESTER
SHIELDS GREEN, JR.
Since
childhood, Lester Green has been winning over audiences
with his personality and musical touch. A native of South
Carolina, his early music education was in the impromptu
Gospel and Spiritual traditions of the African American
Church. His first formal piano studies were at age 13 with
Phil Frothingham. He later studied extensively with
keyboard masters Charles Fugo, Ann Schein, Marian Hahn, and
Rita Sloan. A magna cum laude graduate of the
University of South Carolina, Green went on to attain a
Master of Music Degree and Graduate Performance Diploma in
Piano from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins
University.
Lester
Green has demonstrated his versatility and skill in solo,
collaborative, and theatrical performances with the
esteemed Houston Ebony Opera Guild, Aspen Music Festival,
and Heifetz International Institute and Music Festival,
with appearances in locations ranging from New York’s
Carnegie Hall, to Cortona, Italy to Washington, D.C.’s
Kennedy Center. Described as a “natural teacher and
musician,” Green is much sought after as a collaborative
pianist and vocal coach. He has written and arranged
music for Gospel choir, and has composed for and
collaborated with renowned soprano, Carmen Balthrop.
Currently
a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland, Green
is on the faculty of the Heifetz International Music
Institute, and has served on the faculties of The Peabody
Institute and Morgan State University,
Baltimore.
He
may be reached at LesterSGreenJr@aol.com.