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Paula Peace

August, 2004

Paula Peace, pianist, is the founder of the critically acclaimed Atlanta Chamber Players and has served as the group’s artistic director for most of its 28 seasons. Ms. Peace has performed in more than 200 cities throughout the United States and France. For the past two decades, critics and audiences have raved about her superior artistry and technical expertise, describing her playing as “gutsy,” “heroic,” “persuasive,” “tragically intimate,” “fiery,” and “invigorating!” In 2003 she was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano and Chamber Music in the School of Music at Georgia State University, where she previously served from 1992 to 1994 as Coordinator of Chamber Music. From 2001 to 2003 she was Artist in Residence at Kennesaw State University. Her ACP recordings of Schumann, Schoenberg, and Jonathan Kramer can be heard on the Press Avant and Leonardo labels, in addition to the four recent CDs with the ACP on the CRI and ACA Digital labels. Ms. Peace recently was chosen as the Young Audiences of Atlanta Master Artist to mentor young classical musicians from Public Radio International¹s nationally syndicated From the Top radio program.

Ms. Peace has appeared as concerto soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, DeKalb Symphony, and the Lanier Symphony. She received her Bachelor of Music from Florida State University in the studio of Leonidas Lipovetsky, and her Master’s from State University of New York at Stony Brook where she studied with Martin Canin. Her chamber music coaching has put her before such artists as Menahem Pressler, Leonard Shure and Gilbert Kalish. Summer performances include the Aspen Music Festival and Institut de Hautes Etudes Musicales in Crans, Switzerland. In 1993 she served as pianist and harpsichordist with Amy Porter at the Kobe International Flute Competition in Japan, where her performances contributed to two top prizes for Ms. Porter.

For her dedication to artistry and her contributions to Atlanta’s music community, Paula Peace exemplifies the spirit of a Lexus Leader of the Arts.