CD REVIEW

Change of Keys has received its first online review:

Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review 

Solo CD Wins Awards

My CD, Change of Keys has recently won two Global Music Awards:

Silver Medal for the Classical Category

Silver Medal for the Solo Instrumental Category

Solo CD Release! My new recording, entitled Change of Keys: One Piano, Three Keyboards has been released on MSR classics. It can be ordered through the link below.

http://www.msrcd.com/catalog/cd/MS1616 

Alessandro Mazzamuto's Carnegie Hall debut June 29th

My graduate student, Alessandro, will be performing works by Chopin and Rachmaninov in Weill Recital Hall.

Review in Dallas Morning News: Mozart K 466

by Scott Cantrell

published Saturday, December 6, 2014

"Carol Leone, a piano professor at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, brought similar suavity to Mozart’s D minor Piano Concerto (K. 466).

As would have been the case with the pianos of Mozart’s day, Leone was less a soloist than a partner with the orchestra, supplying luminous tone and nimble fingerwork. On her own, in the cadenzas, she took us into another, quite magical world, as if making up the music as she went—exactly how a cadenza should sound.

Phillips and the orchestra supplied stylish collaboration, string vibrato applied strategically, not nonstop, brasses carefully kept from dominating. As in the Weber, the sheer drama of the first movement was deftly underlined."

Read the full review here