Pianist Jennifer Muñiz

Muñiz, D.M.A., a solo and collaborative pianist with an emphasis in contemporary music, is known for her in-depth study and performances of the works of composer Arne Oldberg, an American pianist, composer and teacher who spent his career on the faculty of Northwestern University. Oldberg w

as a co-founder of the Rocky Mountain School of Music in 1920.

This recital explores the music from a community of composers that formed a larger “Chicago School,” similar in the way that musicologists identify a “Second New England School” in Boston around this time. The concert program, in addition to the music of Oldberg, includes solo piano pieces by John Alden Carpenter, Rudolf Ganz, and Florence Price; as well as Howard Hanson, who was the director at the Eastman School of Music for forty years. Estes Park was the summer composing location of Oldberg, allowing an exciting venue for exploring his contributions to music history, along with a glimpse of the wider musical milieu in Gilded Age Chicago (1880s – 1890s) and it’s impact on later generations.

Pianist Jennifer Muńiz completed her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from Manhattan School of Music with Philip Kawin; and her Bachelor of Music at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She has garnered numerous honors since her concerto debut at age eleven including her New York solo debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, performances at the United Nations, Steinway Hall, and the Polish Embassy in Chicago, and recitals at the Auditorio Principe Felipe in Oviedo, Spain.