Noted pianist Denine LeBlanc will perform works from “Weep No More,” her soon to be released CD, on Sunday, October 11, in Comstock Hall at the University of Louisville at 3 p.m.
Kentucky composers wrote the pieces on the CD, which was named after a line in Kentucky’s state song, “My Old Kentucky Home.” All of the composers will be present at the recital and CD launch celebration, which is free and open to the public.
Weep No More follows her debut solo recording The Sun Shines Bright, a title also taken from Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home” lyrics. It was an easy choice given the reception The Sun Shines Bright has received in live performances from Kentucky and other U.S. states to venues in France and Italy.
Copies of the CD will be sold after the concert for $15 for the general public and $10 for teachers and students. LeBlanc and all of the composers will be available to sign copies of the CD after her performance. Comstock Hall is located on the Belknap campus near the intersection of South First Street and West Cardinal Boulevard. Parking is allowed in reserved lots on weekends, and a large reserved lot is available off of West Cardinal Boulevard near Comstock Hall.
Kentucky composers on the CD include Sara Buchanan MacLean (“Four Fairy Tales” and “Psyche and Eros”)., Christopher T. White (“Anatropy - Rondo Deviations"), Rachel Grimes (“Reflections” which was commissioned by LeBlanc), Nicholas Alexander Drake (“Lobo” and Frederick Speck wrote “Cloudbows)” and the last piece was composed by Marc Satterwhite, which was commissioned by LeBlanc. That piece also appears on her first CD, “The Sun Shines Bright.”
A longtime music educator as well as performer, LeBlanc is instructor of piano in the University of Louisville School of Music Preparatory Division and teacher of Arts and Humanities at the city’s Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Montessori School. She has also taught and performed at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan and been a collaborative pianist in the Advanced Vocal Institute at the famed Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan. She has lectured widely and published scholarly articles based on her research in the Isidore Philipp Archives at the University of Louisville.
LeBlanc is a past president of both the Greater Louisville Music Teachers Association and the Kentucky Music Teachers Association. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and music history from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music; a Master of Music from the University of Louisville School of Music and a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, both in applied piano. She is married, has four children and lives in Old Louisville.
