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The New Yorker: Goings On About Town – Lara Downes

The pianist Lara Downes honors Clara Schumann’s legacy with a concert of works by women that falls exactly on the legendary virtuoso and composer’s two-hundredth birthday.

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The New York Times: Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman

September brings the 200th birthday of a composer whose name is familiar, but whose creative legacy deserves far greater recognition. Pianist Lara Downes gives her perspective.

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Reader's Digest: The Power of Music - Lara Downes reflects on the beautiful soundtrack to her life

How Billie Holiday showed Lara Downes the beauty in hardship. Published in Reader's DIgest.

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Pianist Lara Downes Wins $50,000 Medal of Excellence

The Sphinx Organization announces Lara Downes as a recipient of the 2016 Medal of Excellence and $50,000 Artist Grant.

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Lara Downes Releases "A Billie Holiday Songbook"

A centennial tribute to Lady Day from the critically-acclaimed American pianist Lara Downes.

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Washington Post: Pianist Lara Downes gives insightful performance of Czech composers

"Downes — who admitted that Korngold was “the new love of my life” — gave the thing an impassioned performance, but it was her insights into the more complex, understated and subtle works on the program that more deeply impressed."

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Critics rave about Lara Downes and Zuill Bailey's "Some Other Time"

"The music, the performances, and the sound are extraordinary"

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Lara Downes launches The Artist Sessions at Yoshi's Jazz Bar

Iconic San Francisco venue the location for Downes’s series, blending musical innovation with intriguing themes and fascinating conversation (and cocktails).

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Oregon Arts Watch: A Classical Pianist Creates 21st Century Opportunities

While the stodgy classical world bemoans its diminishing cultural relevance, Lara Downes is embracing the 21st century. “I feel grateful to have grown up in a generation that has faced the absolute end of an era,” the Bay Area-based pianist says.

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WQXR: Album of the Week - Exiles' Cafe

Pianist Lara Downes Finds Links Among Exile Composers