Spirit & Music Concert: Piano Love Songs with Marina Pacowski

Season 3 of our “Spirit & Music” Concert Series continues in the PRS Auditorium with “Piano Love Songs”: a piano solo concert and lecture by pianist and host Marina Pacowski.  Let’s dive into the music and the life of great composers from the 19th and 20th centuries: Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Debussy….!

Marina Pacowski was born in France and is based in Los Angeles. She is a multi-faceted artist: multi awarded concert pianist, sought after accompanist, and vocalist.

As a pianist and vocalist, Marina has toured internationally, performing extensively in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as in the United States where she is currently residing in Los Angeles. Along the way, she has performed and/or lectured at such prestigious venues as Salle Gaveau (Paris), Kursall (San Sebastian, Spain), and major universities in Berlin, San Francisco, Lincoln (Nebraska), the University of Cincinnati (Ohio), and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Composers write virtuosic pieces for her, and she has recorded at Greaves Hall in Cincinnati a piano concerto written for her by composer Frank Proto, accompanied by soloists from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

​An accompanist and lover of chamber music, Marina was awarded the 2017 “Best Collaborative Music Award” by the International Society of Bassists, in a jury committee that featured bassist Ron Carter.

She is also laureate at the Belvedere International Competition in Vienna, Austria, in the category of Opera pianist musical director.

As a jazz vocalist, Marina has performed at the L.A. jazz hot-spots The Jazz Bakery and The Lighthouse (“La-La-Land”) and was featured as a guest vocalist for a tribute to guitarist Kenny Burrell at the Catalina Jazz Club. She received a Jazz Excellence Award in 2021 at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s in Los Angeles, alongside other award recipients such as Jacques Lesure, in a ceremony hosted by Rhonda Hamilton of KJazz. Marina was also featured as special guest at Catalina in March 2022 for the Salute to Black Legends, where she paid tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.

Marina Pacowski is a passionate music educator. She was faculty member in France at the Conservatory of Music “Maurice Ravel” for many years prior to her arrival in the US. She now maintains her own private studio in Los Angeles, teaching piano and vocal jazz improv classes.

She is also regularly invited to teach clinics and master classes in festivals and music camps in France and abroad. She is lecturer and guest educator for the next Jazz Workshop in Tarnos (France) in August featured as the vocal improvisation and scat teacher.

Marina Pacowski is a contributing musician at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles where she created, performs in, and hosts the concert series “Spirit and Music”, now in its third season.

Her upcoming CD “Inner Urge” will be released on Summit Records in early 2023, and features such jazz luminaries as Joel Frahm, John Clayton, Roy McCurdy, Josh Nelson, Jon Mayer, Peter Erskine, Larry Koonse, Carl Saunders, Nolan Shaheed, Bevan Manson, Mark Massey, Mike Gurrola, and Scott Whitfield.

In-person and online Zoom option available. Free to students and anyone under 18 years of age.

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