PERFORMANCES: August 17-23, 2012 - Lake George Music Festival June 17-24, 2012 Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin May 18, 2012 New Art Songs presented by Dr. Faustus, WMP Hall April 25, 2012 - Faculty Recital, Queensborough Community College, CUNY March 1, 2012 - Guest pianist with Lunatics at Large, WMP Hall, NYC February 27, 2012 Composers Now Festival, Graduate Center, CUNY February 21, 2012 Doctoral Students in Concert, Elebash Hall, NYC December 19, 2011 - Composers' Alliance Presents New Works by CUNY Composers, Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC November 28, 2011 - August 7-13, 2011 - Westfield International Keyboard Academy, June 21 and 23, 2011 - Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance, Mannes College of Music, NYC May 10, 2011 - Composers' Alliance Presents New Works by CUNY Composers, Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC April 11, 2011 - Elebash Recital Hall, NYC March 27, 2011 - The Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY March 10, 2011 - Symphony Space, NYC Para America Magica February 22, 2011 - St. Peter's Church Lexington Avenue NYC February 16, 2011 - Queensborough Performing Arts Center Bayside, NY November 24, 2010 - Elebash Recital Hall, NYC September 27, 2010 - Elebash Recital Hall, NYC May 2, 2010 - CUNY New Music Festival Baruch Performing Arts Center April 20, 2010 - Elebash Recital Hall, NYC March 24, 2010 - Queensborough Community College Bayside, NY March 14, 2010 - Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY March 3, 2010 - "Chopin 200", World Financial Center February 25, 2010 - Music in Midtown (reservations) January 31, 2010 - Huntington Public Library, Huntington, NY January 10, 2010 - Copiague Memorial Library, Copiague, NY December 18, 2009 - Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center October 27, 2009 - St. Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Avenue, New York September 24, 2009 - Music in Midtown (reservations) July 7, 2009 - St. Martin in the Fields, London UK June 15-24, 2009 - Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance, NYC June 6, 2009 - Steinway Hall, New York June 3, 2009 - Columbia University May 31, 2009 - Rose Hall, NYC May 20, 2009 - Graduate Center, NYC April 28, 2009 - Proshansky Auditorium, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York April 5, 2009 - Bryant Library Roslyn, NY March 9, 2009 - Graduate Center, NYC February 26, 2009 - Polish Consulate, 233 Madison Avenue, New York February 19, 2009 - Music in Midtown (reservations) December 8, 2008 - Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue November 3, 2008 - Elebash Recital Hall, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York September 14, 2008 - Flushing Queens Library August 17, 2008 - Steinway Gallery, Atlanta, GA August 16, 2008 - New Altanta Conservatory, Atlanta, GA June 8, 2008 - Salle Serge Garant, Universite de Montreal, QC May 28, 2008 - Student Recital, Renee Weiler Hall, Greenwich House Music School, New York May 3, 2008 - Carnegie-Weill Hall, New York April 20, 2008 - Steinway Hall, New York April 6, 2008 - Copiague Library, Copiague, NY March 6, 2008 - The Gershwin Hotel, NYC February 8, 2008 - Susan Tang & Friends, Third St. Music School, NYC January 13, 2008 - The Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY July 28, 2007 - Baščarsija Nights Festival, Bosniak Institute, Sarajevo July 1-8, 2007 - London Master Classes, Royal Academy of Music June 26, 2007 - The Bryant Library, Roslyn NY June 17, 2007 - Student Recital, Steinway Hall, New York | Pianist Mirna Lekić has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, England, France, and her native Bosnia. Recent appearances include concerts at Carnegie-Weill Hall and Symphony Space in New York, St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, Columbia and Harvard Universities, and Bascarsija Nights International Festival in Sarajevo. Her playing has been praised for its “natural inventiveness and emotion” (Zena 21), “appropriate stylistic sense”, “admirably delicate finger-work”, “intelligent sense of interacting voices” and for “eliciting [music’s] haunting poetry." (New York Concert Review) Prizewinner in the Queens College Young Artist Competition and the Morgan Park Festival Competition in New York, Mirna is the recipient of the Hanson, Eastman and Willard Awards at the Eastman School, the New York State Scholarship for Academic Excellence, the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Grant, the Artists International Special Presentation Award and the CUNY Music Fellowship. She has broadcast on Bosnian Radio and TV stations and is active as a piano and music instructor in New York City. |