Melodey Soong, Senior Piano Recital
Program:
Papillons, Op. 2 (1831) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Étude Op. 25, No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor (1834) by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Étude Op. 10, No. 3 in E Major (1832)
Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475 (1785) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Melodey Soong began her music studies at the age of four and will be graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and Music. Throughout her time at Washington University in St. Louis, she has studied piano under the tutelage of Professor Amanda Kirkpatrick. Soong has won music competitions such as being a three-time winner of the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition and 2019 Artist of the Year for the Great Composers International Competition Series, and has performed in venues such as the Isaac Stern Auditorium Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall and Sala dei Notari in Perugia, Italy. She has also held a fundraiser for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research through a benefit concert with her brother, and has volunteered in hospitals and senior homes playing the piano as a form of music therapy. She is a recipient of the George E. Mylonas Scholarship for the Humanities under the Honorary Scholars Program in Arts & Sciences. Besides her love of music, Soong enjoys researching in her psychology labs and is hoping to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology in the future.
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