Awadagin Pratt

The renowned pianist brings his America 250 program to Duke University’s Baldwin Auditorium for an afternoon celebrating the depth and diversity of American classical music as part of Duke Arts Presents’ new season. His program explores the many voices that have shaped American music, featuring works by Florence Price, George Walker, Nathaniel Dett, Judd Greenstein and Fred Hersch, as well as his own arrangement of the spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” and Brahms’ monumental “Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.”