Pianist David Northington invited to perform at U. S. Ambassador Victor Ashe’s residence in Poland.
As a result of his very successful concert tours of Poland and Italy in the spring of 2006, Dr. David Northington was again invited to return to both countries for ‘repeat performances’ in the spring of 2007. These tours featured performances at the American Academy in Rome, Italy and special concerts in Poland at the following venues: solo recital of Chopin on the weekly series at the composer’s birthplace and museum in Zelazowa Wola, and a performance on the Sunday afternoon series at the Chopin Monument in Warsaw’s Laziencki Park. Northington also was invited to play a command performance by U.S. Ambassador Victor Ashe at his residence in Warsaw, as well as several performances and master classes in Krakow and surrounding cities.
David Northington Biography
At his New York debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall, the New York Times called David Northington “ an immensely gifted musician…who combines the technical mastery of a virtuoso with the musical senstitivity of a poet.” Such critical accolades have followed Northington throughout the world in concerts and concerto engagements. His tours have included the United States, eastern and western Europe, Canada, China, and Russia. In addition to recitals and concerto engagements, he has given master classes at many of the leading conservatories in these countries. David Northington’s masterful pianism has won him first prizes in the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the East/West Artists Competition, the American Music Scholarship Association’s International Competition, the unanimous Judges Prize at the Fourth Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and selection to the Artistic Ambassador Program sponsored by the United States Information Agency. As an Artistic Ambassador for the United States, Northington has toured extensively in France, Spain, and Portugal. In addition to broadcasts throughout Europe on the Voice of America, he has filmed recitals in the historic Tallyrand Theatre in Paris for telecast on French National Television. Northington has a compact disc recording of the waltzes of Chopin on the Centaur Records label. Since receiving degrees at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Yale University School of Music, David Northington has taught on the faculties of several universities. His many teaching awards include the Tennessee Music Teachers Association’s Teacher of the Year Award and the Tennessee Governor’s School of the Arts “Outstanding Teacher Award.” Dr. Northington has also been the recipient of the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Artist of the Year Award. Presently he is a Professor of Piano at the University of Tennessee School of Music.
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