Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

Cicilia Yudha, piano

Sunday, March 9, 2025
3 pm

Award-winning pianist Cicilia Yudha will perform a solo piano recital at the Stone Church Cultural Center, 283 Main Street, Gilbertville 01031. Her program, Old, New, Borrowed and Blue, features music by J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, Maurice Ravel, and three women: Romantic German composer Emilie Mayer (1812-1873), Indonesian composer Trisutji Kamal (1936-2021), and American composer Margaret Bonds (1913-1972). Free to Youth under 18 and holders of the Card to Culture. For Information and Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/friendsofthestonechurch/1256706

A versatile soloist and an avid chamber musician, Yudha made her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra. She has performed in the U.S., Cambodia, Canada, Austria, France, Germany, and Indonesia. As a creative artist, she has enjoyed collaborations with musicologist Eweline Boczkowska, tap dancer Claudia Rahardjanoto, Polish Folk Dance specialists Christine Cobb and Staś Kmieć, and Shakespeare scholar John Higgins.

In the U.S., Yudha has appeared frequently as a piano soloist with the Duke Symphony Orchestra. She received her doctoral degree in music from UNC Greensboro. While teaching at Youngstown State University, where she received a Distinguished Professorship award, she co-founded the Dana Trio, which made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2019. Yudha is a frequent guest speaker at the Cleveland Orchestra’s Preview Series at Severence Center. She resides in Ohio with her husband and children. Originally from Jakarta, Indonesia, Yudha won a scholarship to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM). She then won awards from CIM, the Cleveland Orchestra, New England Conservatory, and UNC Greensboro, resulting in solo performances with each orchestra. For her compositions for children, she won a Junior Composer Award through the Yamaha Music Foundation and Yayasan Pendidikan Musik’s Junior Original Concert program. She also received the Rosario Marciano Prize, resulting in a solo recital in Vienna. Yudha’s live performances, including an appearance on “From the Top,” have been broadcast on radio in America, Canada and Indonesia. 

Pursuing her interest in the music of French pianist and composer Robert Casadesus, Yudha has presented piano recital-lectures at The Juilliard School, in TEDx Talks, and at national music educators’ conferences. Her debut recording Selected Piano Works by Robert Casadesus and Henri Dutilleux was released by Navona Records and is available online or as a CD. Yudha focused her doctoral dissertation on several of Casaddesus’s works, and is actively seeking out his largely unknown works.

A popular educator, Dr. Yudha is a four-time recipient of the Steinway Top Teacher Award. She successfully established piano class and after-school enrichment programs for Youngstown City Schools.

This concert is sponsored by Phillip and Mary Warbasse, and by CAPTRUST, a financial advisory firm. Partial support for the spring 2025 Series at the Stone Church Cultural Center comes from the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency, and by the Cultural Councils of Barre, Hardwick-New Braintree, North Brookfield, Oakham, and Petersham. Local cultural councils are local organizations in each town which receive support from the Mass Cultural Council.