Alumni Bio Deborah Bradley-Kramer
Deborah Bradley-Kramer, M.A. '90 and Ph.D. '96, Piano Performance, is Director of the Music Performance Program and Lecturer in Music at Columbia University. Dr. Bradley-Kramer is the founder and pianist in The Moebius Ensemble, a group dedicated to fostering cross-cultural exchanges between musicians and composers in Eastern Europe and the U.S. This ensemble has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including three Rockefeller Foundation grants, two National Endowment for the Arts ("The Fund for US Artists”) grants, and a grant from the Kousssevitzky Foundation for the commission of a new work by Jonathan Kramer.
As a soloist, Dr. Bradley-Kramer concertizes frequently throughout the U S and Europe, and has performed with such orchestras as the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, the Iasi (Romania) Philharmonic, and the St. Petersburg Classical Symphony. She presents master classes and concert lectures at music schools, conservatories and festivals every summer, including Prague Spring, The Martinu Foundation, Chopin Academy (Warsaw), Prague Conservatory, Musica Judaica, St. Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories, and the Plzen Conservatory.
Dr. Bradley-Kramer's research interests include 20th Century Russian Music, especially that of Shostakovich, Bulgarian and Russian folk music, Czech and Russian literature and poetry.
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