Duet Recital With Kamila Swerdloff

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Kamila Swerdloff, piano

Kamila Swerdloff, a native of Northwest Oregon, is a pianist, teacher, singer-songwriter, and composer. She holds a Bachelorsof Music degree in Piano Performance from Ithaca College, where she studied with Phiroze Mehta. She currently teaches piano at Armstrong Community Music School, and is a pianist for Ballet Austin. She has served as an instructor and counselor at the Summer Piano Institute in Ithaca, NY, a well as an adjudicator and presenter for the New York State Music Teachers Association. She was recently a part of the Astoria Music Festival and the Austin Chamber Music Festival, and is involved in several both classical and non-classical collaborative projects in Austin.

Graham Yates, piano

Graham Yates found his element when he learned that even as a pianist he did not have to play all by himself. His performing career is almost exclusively in collaboration with singers, instrumentalists, choirs, chamber groups, pit bands and orchestras.

Mr. Yates holds a BA in piano performance from Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, and a Master of Music with an emphasis in piano accompaniment from Brandon University in Manitoba. In 2014, he relocated from B.C. where he was the director of two music schools, to Austin, where he is on staff at Armstrong Community Music School and Austin Civic Orchestra.