149. Melody Fader & Charlie Tauber, piano

Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @2:00 PM | Mozart (early) Birthday Celebration!

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149.

Salon Concerts at Klavierhaus
Jed Distler, artistic director

presents

Mozart (early) Birthday Celebration!

Melody Fader & Charlie Tauber, piano

Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @2:00 PM

Live at Klavierhaus
790 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10019

$20 suggested donation

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasia in C minor, K 475
Sonata in C Minor, K 457
Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K 448

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Pianist Melody Fader enjoys a busy career as a soloist, chamber musician, vocal and dance accompanist. She has performed in such iconic New York venues as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and internationally in Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Guatemala, Chile, Canada and Italy.

Ms. Fader is the founder, artistic director, and pianist for her Melody and Company Chamber Series ensemble, that recently won grants from both the Queens Council on the Arts and the Puffin Foundation. Her first commercial album, Music of Frederic Chopin, was released in February 2012 on Centaur Records and she is currently working on her second album. For two seasons Ms. Fader served as company pianist and soloist for Dance Theatre of Harlem, touring extensively with the company. She is the resident pianist with New Chamber Ballet for their annual performance cycle at New York’s City Center, and has also performed with Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Buglisi Dance Theater and the New York Theater Ballet and Stars of American Ballet.

Ms. Fader was a prize winner at both the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition and the Aspen Concerto Competition, leading to solo as well as chamber music performances throughout the U.S. She earned her Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and Master of Music in Collaborative Piano at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Margo Garrett.

For more information, please visit www.melodyfader.com

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Charlie Tauber has been Artist Collaborator at the Shepherd School since 2002. Charlie came here after working several years as a freelance musician in New York City, following his education at The Juilliard School where he studied with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Joseph Kalichstein.

Outside of the Shepherd School, he has worked for 22 summers as Staff Pianist at the Aspen Music Festival and School, and, prior to that, multiple summers at the Music Academy of the West and the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival. Additionally, he has appeared with notable young artists in international competitions, including the Tchaikovsky, and he was Staff Pianist at the Primrose Viola Competition in 2011 and 2014. Recital appearances with prominent artists have taken him all over the US and abroad, to such venues as Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC and the Kammermusiksaal der Berlin Philharmonie.