Dr. Lelia Molthrop, pianist (USA)
"Coaching opera" for pianists
 

Dr. Sadlier is active as both a soloist and chamber musician and has been praised for her fluid legato and singing tone. She has been featured in recitals at the 92nd Street Y and Steinway Hall in New York, and a recital in Salzburg for former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Most recently she has performed in recital at the Schumann-Haus (Zwickau, Germany), for the noon recital series at St. Martin in the Fields (London, UK), the Trinity Artist Series in New Orleans, Boteringe Suite (Gronigen, Holland), St. Anne’s Recital Series and the Jacqueline Dupré Room (Oxford University), the Interlochen Arts Academy, the Performing Arts Center at Texas A&M University, the COFAC Recital Hall at Western Illinois University, Reynolds Recital Hall at Montana State University, and the Zion Recital Series in Indianapolis. In addition, Dr. Sadlier has appeared as concerto soloist with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, the Monroe Symphony Orchestra, the New Orleans Civic Symphony Orchestra, and performed the Gerald Finzi “Eclogue” for the Finzi Centenary at Indiana University with the composer’s son in attendance.

An active clinician and speaker, Dr. Sadlier is a guest teacher for the Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program. She has given masterclasses at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Montana State University, Interlochen, and Texas A&M, Corpus Christi. She regularly gives clinics and classes for the Peninsula Music Teacher’s Association and is active on local competition jury panels. Many of her students have been accepted to and continued their musical studies at prestigious institutions including The Jacob’s School at IU, The College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati, Oberlin, Mannes College, and the Eastman School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival.

Other achievements of Dr. Sadlier include garnering the coveted Chancellor’s Fellowship at IU, articles published in Music Teacher Magazine, an ASCAP Young Composer’s Competition Finalist award, the distinction of youngest student on the USA Today All-Academic Team (1988), an international audition winner of the TCU/Cliburn Institute, a first-place award in the Music Teacher’s National Association Composition Contest, the honor of being the youngest-ever composer to study with Leonard Bernstein at Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute (1986), a feature article in Seventeen magazine, and an appearance on the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour.

Lelia Sadlier has been on the faculty of several universities most recently serving as the Director of Keyboard Studies at Christopher Newport University. In the summer, Dr. Sadlier is the Director of Piano Studies at the Cornish-American Song Institute in Falmouth, UK. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Dr. Sadlier holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Nelita True and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Grammy award winning pianist, Emanuel Ax. Dr. Sadlier completed the Doctor of Music degree in Piano Performance at The Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University where she worked with Edmund Battersby. Dr. Sadlier resides in McAllen, Texas with her husband, tenor, David Sadlier, and their two daughters.

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