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| Eva Mengelkoch |
Her interest in contemporary music has led to premiere performances of works by Wahram Babayan, Gerardo Dirie, and Paul SanGregory; in May 2002, she performed the world premiere of Thomas Hennig’s Concerto for Piano and Chorus, which is dedicated to her, in Baltimore. A regular guest at prestigious concert venues, she has performed at Saint-Martin-the-Fields in London, the Mendelssohn-Haus in Leipzig, Saint Peter’s Church in New York, the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Kansas-City, the Sumner Museum in Washington, DC, and the International Piano Festival in Cremona; her “Dame-Myra-Hess-Memorial-Concert-Series” recital, at Chicago’s Cultural Center was broadcast live on WFMT and its affiliated cable stations across the country. Her solo CD, recorded in the historic music salon in the Mendelssohn-Haus in Leipzig, was released on the German Beoton label (www.beoton.de) in December 2002 and has received critical acclaim. Eva Mengelkoch has received awards from Villa Musica, the ministry of culture of Rheinland-Pfalz, Indiana University, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She was artist-in-residence at the Denkmalschmiede Höfgen in Saxony, and at Schloß Wiepersdorf in Brandenburg. She studied with Michael Roll at the Folkwang Conservatory in Essen, and came to the United States in 1991 to study with Leonard Hokanson at Indiana University. In 1999 she joined the faculty at Towson University, where she teaches piano and accompanying, and serves as the chair of the keyboard division. Locally, Ms Mengelkoch can be heard with the Largely Ludwig Chamber Players, as a recitalist at JHUMI’s Hurd Hall, and as a regular panelist on WBJC’s 91.5FM Face the Music with host Jonathan Palevsky. Office: CA 4061
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Eva Mengelkoch has performed extensively as a concerto soloist, in chamber music ensembles, in solo recitals, and as a Lied accompanist in Germany, France, Italy, Canada, England, and the USA. In 1995, she toured India, including Bombay, Calcutta, and Bangalore under the auspices of the Goethe Institute, the Alliance Française, and the Indian Cultural Council.