Biography

Antoinette Perry, born to professional musicians, gave her first public performance at the age of four. Since then, she has appeared throughout the U.S. and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician, collaborating with many of the world’s greatest artists, including Leon Fleisher, Ralph Kirshbaum, Ronald Leonard, Brooks Smith, Carol Wincenc, Froydis Ree Wekre, David Shifrin, John Perry, Gabor Rejto, Nathaniel Rosen, Jeffrey Solow, Henri Temianka, Eugene Fodor, and actors Michael York and Walter Matthau. She has performed with members of the American, Chicago, Cleveland, Emerson, Juilliard, Paganini, Sequoia, and Takacs String Quartets, and also with concertmasters and/or principals of the L.A., New York, Rotterdam and the Hague Philharmonics, the Concertgebau, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Gulbenkian and Zurich Tonhalle Orchestras, the Chicago, St. Louis, Toronto, and San Francisco Symphonies, and the L.A. and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras.

Having performed in festivals throughout America, Ms. Perry has been heard often on NPR’s Performance Today, the Bravo! Channel, and Continental Airlines’ In-Flight Programming. Recordings with flutist David Shostac have been issued by Harmonie, and Excelsior (Sam Goody). Ms. Perry joined the artist-faculty at the Aspen Music Festival & School in 1985, and has since performed in around 100 Aspen Festival Concerts.

Distinguishing herself also as a pedagogue, Ms. Perry served for 12 years for the UCLA piano faculty before joining the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music in 1996. She frequently gives master classes and serves as an adjucator. Former students are enjoying successful careers as performers and pedagogues throughout the U.S. and Asia.

Professional Experience

Current Professional Affiliation(s):
Artist-faculty, Aspen Music Festival and School
Member, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, Music Teachers' Association of California, Ca. Assoc. of Professional Music Teachers
Career Highlights:

• Over 100 performances as an Aspen Festival artist
• Performed Mozart's Double and Triple concerti with Leon Fleisher and Kathy Jacobson and the Aspen Chamber Orchestra to celebrate Steinway's 150th anniversary
• Faculty, UCLA, 1984-96 and Colburn School of Performing Arts, 1981-2000   
• Premiered works by Mark Carlson, Donald Keats, Michael Convertino, David Lang
• Toured as soloist w/ California Chamber Symphony, Henri Temianka conducting ,Columbia Artists Community Concerts

Honors, Awards & Competitions:

• University of Texas at Austin Fellowship, 1976-79
• German-American Club Exchange Scholar, at Munchen Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst, 1979-80
• Finalist, National Beethoven competition, 1978

Music Festivals:

• Artist- faculty, Aspen Music Festival and School, 1985-present
• Summer workshop faculty, Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, 1987-92
• Performed at festivals in Tanglewood, Ojai, Sedona, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Austin and Sarasota

Recordings:

• Masterpieces From the French Repertoire, with flutist David Shostac, Harmonie, 1996
• The Romantic Flute, with David Shostac, Excelsior (Sam Goody), 1996
• Masterpieces Rediscovered, with flutist David Shostac, Harmonie, 1996
• Balancing Act, with trombonist Bill Booth, Crystal Records, 2000

Academic Degrees

• DMA work, UT Austin, 1978-79, Aufbaustudium, Munchen Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst, 1979-80
• MM, UT Austin, 1978
• BM, UT Austin, 1976

Other Academic Experience:

• Mozarteum, Salzburg , summers 1977,79,80
• Berkshire Music Fest at Tanglewood, summer 1981
• Aspen Music School , summer 1978
• Sarasota Festival, summer 1978

Studied with  John Perry, Carlo Zecchi,Gilbert Kalish, Richard Goode, Lilian Kallir, Danielle Martin and Richard Angeletti