RUTLAND - Sunday, September 24 at 2 pm - After Tony's wonderful debut recital at Grace Congregational Church in Rutland last October, they welcome him back to offer more of his transcriptions for piano on their Steinway piano.

Tony Lu is an active faculty member of Sonata and Summer Sonatina International Piano Camp in Bennington, Vermont. He teaches students from age 6 to 80+ both in person and online. His teaching areas include piano instruction, piano duet and ensemble, chamber music, western music history, music analysis, and historical keyboard improvisation. His research areas include classical keyboard improvisation pedagogy, piano solo and duet transcriptions of symphonic/chamber works, and 20th/21st century neoclassical solo literature.

Tony earned his MM in Piano Performance from Austin Peay State University in 2021. He was the instructor for several undergraduate and graduate level music history, applied piano, and chamber music courses at Austin Peay. He collaborated with various APSU faculty in chamber performances.

Tony is a 2018 Bennington College graduate where he earned his BA degrees in Mathematics, History, and Music. Tony has worked closely and performed with many Bennington College music faculty both on and off campus. Such venues include Park–McCullough Historic House, Bennington Center for the Arts, Third Street Music School in New York City, and Lincoln Center and Sage City Symphony. Tony also worked as a piano tutor, music history and analysis lecturer, and accompanist helping students in the Bennington music department.

The concert will be in the Grace Church sanctuary at 2 pm on Sept. 24. A freewill offering will be accepted to support the concert and performance series at Grace Church. For more information about their concert and performance series, visit gracechurchvt.org. You can also follow them on Facebook, @GraceChurchVT.

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