Making his FCM debut, Awadagin Pratt gained international recognition after winning the renowned Naumburg International Piano Competition in 1992 and being awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant.  He is hailed as “one of the great and distinctive American pianists and conductors of our time” (WGBH).  Pratt’s wide-ranging program includes Fred Hersch’s Nocturne for Left Hand Alone and Peteris Vasks’s Castillo Interior, as well as works from Couperin, Rachmaninoff, and Chopin.  

“…forceful, imaginative, and precisely tinted” performances  – Washington Post