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The St. Mary's Music Academy welcomes cellist Grace Anderson and pianist Dmitri Shteinberg for a concert featuring works by Bach, Barber, Prokofiev, and more. Praised for her “rapier definition and boundless energy” (New York Concert Review), cellist Grace Lin Anderson has performed across North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. Following her solo debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, she has appeared at Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Brooklyn’s Bargemusic, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as at festivals including Caramoor, Scotia, and Aspen. Internationally, she has performed at festivals in Canada, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Recent highlights include a concert tour of Germany in 2024, where Anderson performed Bach’s Solo Cello Suites and her arrangement of the Goldberg Variations for cello duo with Alan Black at the historical Köthen Castle and the iconic St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. Her season continued with performances with Queens Chamber Players and with Mallarmé Music, as well as concerts at Duke University, UNC Wilmington, Queens University of Charlotte, and the Carolina Performing Arts at UNC. She continues the season with recitals in North Carolina with pianist Dmitri Shteinberg and a concerto performance with the Arequipa National Symphony in Peru. Called ''protean and refined'' by the New York Times, Dmitri Shteinberg recorded for NPR, the Bavarian Radio, Summit Records, Fleur de Son Classics, and Sono Luminus labels and the Yamaha Disklavier; collaborated with the cellists Han-Na Chang and Natalia Gutman, violinists Julian Rachlin and David Garrett, and violist Tabea Zimmermann, and member of the New York Philharmonic. Besides solo and chamber music performances, Shteinberg frequently appears in concert lectures; he also plays harpsichord and period pianos. His interest in new music has led to world premieres and numerous commissions, including concertos by Avner Dorman, Jonathan Kolm, and Robert Chumbley and the first-ever recording of Samuel Barber’s recently discovered violin sonata. Dmitri Shteinberg is a prizewinner in twenty competitions worldwide, including the first prize in the “Citta de Senigallia'' international piano competition in Italy and the silver medal at the Proto International Piano Competition. In the United States, he won the Naomi Foundation Competition and the Artists International Debut Award and received the Salon De Virtuosi Fellowship Grant.