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Janice B. Bradner
Instructor in Music, M.M., Winthrop University
Head Staff Accompanist, Accompanying, Class Piano, Music Theory
210 Conservatory of Music
803 323-4606
bradnerj@winthrop.edu
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Janice Bradner, pianist, received her Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, studying with Dr. George Kiorpes, and Master of Music from Winthrop University where she studied with Dr. Eugene Barban. Ms. Bradner is in demand as both a solo performer and collaborative artist. In October 2007, she performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for the Malgrat de Mar International Music Festival in Spain. She has performed in New York City with the New York City Chamber Orchestra, accompanied song recitals at the Spencer Art Gallery in Kansas and at the Cleveland Museum of Art for the touring Belgian art exhibit of Les XX, and has also performed on American Public Radio. Recently, Ms. Bradner participated in the Society of Composers Regional Conference, performing a composition by Craig Bove, chair of the Music Department at Central Piedmont Community College. She also premiered, in 2006, a two-piano composition by Dr. Ronald Parks, winner of the 2004 Aaron Copland Award and Residency and the 2003 South Carolina Music Teachers Association Commission.
Ms. Bradner regularly accompanies established singers who have made their careers with the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, and the San Francisco Opera. Bradner has accompanied students in master classes for such notables as Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg and Libby Larsen, and frequently accompanies aspiring performers in competitions such as the Josef Hoffman International Piano Competition, the Metropolitan Opera auditions, and the Leontyne Price Vocal Arts Competition. She has made frequent appearances for charitable organizations such as the Symphony Guild of Charlotte and various Friends of Music organizations instrumental in raising awareness of arts in the area.
Ms. Bradner currently teaches piano at Winthrop University and serves as a freelance coach/accompanist in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. Before joining the faculty at Winthrop, she taught theory, class and private piano, and piano ensemble at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC.
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