Naida Cole

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Naida Cole (born October 28, 1974 in Durham , North Carolina ) is a Canadian-American pianist and flautist.

Cole was born in the United States to Canadian parents. She grew up in Toronto, where she took violin lessons from the age of three and piano lessons from the age of four. The family moved frequently and so Cole began playing the flute in Saudi Arabia and attended music school in Chetham, Great Britain. After returning to Canada, she was at the Royal Conservatory of Music student of Marina Geringas and received thirteen year as the second-youngest student to Glenn Gould the associate degree of the Conservatory.

After studying for a year with Marc Durand at the University of Toronto , she obtained a bachelor's degree in piano with Leon Fleisher and in flute with Emily Controulis and Robert Willoughby at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University . She completed her training at the Fondatione Internazionale per il Piano , took lessons from Charles Rosen , Fiu T'song and Dmitri Baschkirow and completed her studies in Montreal with a master's degree.

In 1989 she was the winner of the SO Concours , three years later she won third prize at the Montreal International Music Competition . She was the only musician ever to receive the Kiwanis President's Trophy for two different instruments. At the 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition she received the Phyllis Jones Tilley Memorial Award for the best interpretation of a commissioned work and was one of the three winners of the Stephen de Groote Memorial Award for chamber music.

As a soloist and recitalist, Cole has performed in Canada, the USA, Austria and Germany. She was often the duo partner of the violinists Gidon Kremer and Cho-Liang Lin and the pianist David Jalbert . In 2000 she made her debut with the Kremerata Baltica at Carnegie Hall , and in 2001 as a recitalist at Wigmore Hall . Her CD Naida Cole, piano. Works by Ravel , Satie , Fauré , Chabrier was nominated for a Juno Award . In 2007 she began to study medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University . But she continued her concert activity on a reduced scale.

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SURNAME Cole, Naida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist and flautist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Durham , North Carolina