PR2016 Oct 25 TUES

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October 25, 2016

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SHELTON STATE TERRIFIC TUESDAY CONCERT SERIES

HOSTS ELEANOR LEE

Tuscaloosa, Alabama – Shelton State Community College’s Terrific Tuesday Concert Series will feature pianist Eleanor Lee on Tuesday, October 25 at 1:00 p.m. in the Alabama Power Recital Hall on the Martin Campus. Admission is free and open to the public.

Pianist Eleanor Yeajune Lee, age thirteen, is an 8th grader at Rock Quarry Middle School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Dr. Hye-Sook Jung, Director of Instrumental Music at Indian Springs School, has been her teacher since 2009.

At age nine, Eleanor debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York as the first-prize winner of the 2012 Golden Era of Romantic Music International Competition. At age ten, she was selected as a youngest finalist of Mondavi Center National Young Artist Competition, Davis, California, and a finalist of the International Keyboard Odyssiad Competition, Fort Collins, Colorado. In 2014, she made her orchestral debut as a soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans as a winner of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto Competition. She was a solo and concerto winner in the Alabama Music Teachers’ Association Auditions in 2014, 2015 and 2016. She was selected as the alternate 1st place winner (junior level) at the Alabama Music Teacher National Association competition in 2015. She has also won the Mabry Miller Award (junior piano competition) and Stillman-Kelly Award (playoff winner of the instrumental competition) at the Alabama Federation of Music Clubs Audition 2016, and she was the second place winner at the National Federation of Music Clubs in 2016.

Shelton State’s Terrific Tuesday Concert Series is designed to showcase a variety of repertory styles. Weekly performances are offered by guest artists as well as Shelton State faculty and students.

For more information, contact Lillian Roberts at 205.391.2399 or lroberts@sheltonstate.edu.

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