Natalie Hinderas, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Natalie Hinderas

American musician

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1927

Date of Death: 22-Jul-1987

Profession: composer, pianist, violinist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Natalie Hinderas

  • Natalie Leota Henderson Hinderas (June 15, 1927 – July 22, 1987) was an American pianist, composer and professor at Pennsylvania's Temple University.She was born in Oberlin, Ohio to a musical family.
  • Her father (Abram) was a jazz pianist and her mother, Leota Palmer, was a classical pianist who taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
  • She began playing at the age of three, with formal lessons (piano and violin) beginning at six years of age.
  • A child prodigy, she gave her first full-length recital at eight years old. In 1945, she received her BS in Music from Oberlin Conservatory as their youngest student.
  • Assuming the name Natalie Hinderas, she did her post-graduate work at the Juilliard School of Music with Olga Samaroff and at the Philadelphia Conservatory with Edward Steuermann.
  • In 1954, she made her Town Hall debut, receiving critical acclaim.
  • From this point in her career, she toured America, Europe, and the West Indies; with two tours of Africa and Asia sponsored by the U.S.
  • State Department. In the mid-1950s, Hinderas signed a contract with NBC to perform in their owned and operated stations around the United States playing recitals, concertos, and variety shows.
  • She was the first Black to perform a subscription concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1971 after which, many other concerts followed.
  • Some of the other venues where she played are the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, and Chicago Symphony Orchestras.
  • Hinderas’s performances included the Schumann Piano Concerto, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No.
  • 2. Throughout her career, she promoted and recorded works by black performers and composers, among them R.
  • Nathaniel Dett, William Grant Still, John W.
  • Work, and George Walker.
  • She received a number of awards and degrees including the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fellowship and an honorary doctorate degree from Swarthmore College.
  • Hinderas was a full professor at Temple University at the time of her death from cancer on July 22, 1987.Hinderas also taught at Howard University, where her pupils included Pearl Williams-Jones.

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