Native American Piano Music with Roberta Rust

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Lynn University

Native American Piano Music with Roberta Rust

Featured in this lecture-recital is the piano music of Connor Chee (Navajo), a composer and pianist born in 1987 and based in Phoenix, Arizona. Chee combines his classical piano training with his Native American heritage and Louis W. Ballard (Quapaw/Cherokee), known as the father of Native American composition.

Ballard was a composer and educator who lived most of his life (1931–2007) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This program celebrates Native American Heritage Month.