IN RECITAL - Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, piano
Saturday, 14 October, 2023
Sat., Oct. 14, 2023, 7:30 p.m
IN RECITAL
Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, piano
www.llewellynsanchezwerner.com
Admission: FREE
“A gifted virtuoso” (San Francisco Chronicle) with “mesmerizing artistry and extraordinary ability to communicate” (The Post-Standard), “poetic, electrifying” (Michigan Live) with “masterful technique and a veritable deluge of sonorities” (La Presse Montreal), 26-year-old Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner was selected First Prize Winner of the 2022 Concert Artists Guild International Competition and was named a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded to the most promising American pianists of the new generation. Llewellyn has performed for U.S. Presidents Obama and Biden, President Peña Nieto of Mexico, President Peres of Israel, and President Kagame of Rwanda. Committed to public service, he received the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award recognizing his dedication to social action through music in Iraq, Rwanda, France, Canada, and the United States. Fellow honorees included actor/director Robert De Niro and Presidents Peña Nieto and Perez, and in presenting the award General Petraeus commended his “courageous humanitarian contributions through the arts…strengthening the ties that unite our nations.”