Artist Minute – Paul Sánchez, Director of Piano Studies, College of Charleston
May 5, 2021
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Paul Sánchez, Director of Piano Studies, College of Charleston
Dr. Paul Sánchez’ most recent CD is a collaboration with baritone Will Liverman titled Dreams of a New Day, Songs by Black Composers. It reached number 1 on Billboard’s “Traditional Classical Albums” chart for the week of February 27, 2021, and has been featured in print by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and on-air by NPR and others. The original piece by Shawn Okpebholo, Two Black Churches, also features a poem written Charleston-based Poet Laureate, Marcus Amaker.
Dr. Sánchez is Director of Piano Studies and the International Piano Series at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He is a co-founder of the San Francisco International Piano Festival, the Charleston Chamber Music Intensive, and the Dakota Sky Foundation.
Sánchez, a Fulbright fellow from 2005–2007, earned his Master of Spanish Music degree under the legendary Alicia de Larrocha.
Below is a full performance of Two Black Churches from Dreams of a New Day, Songs by Black Composers. Paul Sánchez on piano and Will Liverman, baritone. The piece was written by Shawn Okpebholo, Professor of Music Composition and Theory at Wheaton College.
