Cullan Bryant
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | William Cullan Bryant |
| Born | June 5, 1963 Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Labels | Albany Records, Navona, Naxos, Ravello Records |
| Website | cullanbryant.com |
Cullan Bryant (born William Cullan Bryant, June 5, 1963) is an American classical pianist. He is among the most active collaborative pianists in New York, maintaining a schedule of over seventy recitals a year worldwide.
Bryant made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1992 in recital with violinist Patmore Lewis. He has performed with many world-class artists including Ju-Young Baek, Emanuel Borok, Colin Jacobsen, Misha Keylin, Oleh Krysa, Julia Lichten, Midori, Sviatoslav Moroz, Peter Rejto, Paul Tobias, members of the Amati, American, Arcata and Borromeo Quartets and members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York City Ballet Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Boston Symphony and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in such venues as Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Detroit's Orchestra Hall.
Career[edit]
Cullan Bryant began playing the piano at age two, giving his first public recital at age six. At eleven he toured campuses in his native Arkansas and in Texas including several televised recitals. His prizes and awards include the Leschetizky International Competition, the National Arts Club of New York, the Memphis Beethoven Competition, Miami Arts Competition and a certificate of outstanding citizenship from Arkansas Governor Frank White. His college studies were with Robert Goldsand and Artur Balsam at the Manhattan School of Music. In July of 2002 he toured Japan in recitals with violinist Midori.
In 2011, Bryant released his debut album, Beethoven and his Teachers, with pianist Dimitri Rachmanov and vocalist Maria Ferrante, featuring pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, and Franz Joseph Haydn.
2018 saw his next major release, Unexplored, with cellist Nada Radulovich. This album features pieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Gaspar Cassadó, Antin Rudnytsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Bryant's latest release (2020), [https://open.spotify.com/album/0ZdkqyWi2kDF98zNjpmTow Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin on Historic Instruments], with violinist Jerilyn Jorgensen, contains 33 pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, performed using older instruments closer to the 18th century.
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