Lucy Miller Murray is author of Adams to Zemlinsky: A Guide to Selected Chamber Music, published by Concert Artists Guild of New York. This extensive collection of notes is a result of her long history in chamber music beginning in 1982 as Founding Director of Market Square Concerts, a distinguished chamber music series in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She has been regular program annotator for Fine Arts Quartet programs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Concertante Chamber Ensemble, IMG’s Tuscan Sun Festival, and the Great Lakes Chamber Festival. She has also written for the Ying Quartet, Trio Solisti, The Bard Festival performances at the Neue Gallery, touring programs for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Concert Artists Guild, the Russian American Youth Orchestra, Music at Gretna, Pro Musica, the chamber music programs of the Harrisburg Symphony, Frederica von Stade's farewell recital at the Krannert Center, and the 70th anniversary gala of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation at Carnegie Hall. Her liner notes for many recordings include the Ying Quartet’s 2007 Grammy-nominated Tchaikovsky CD, Trio Solisti’s Brahms’s Piano trios and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at An Exhibition, Maria Bachmann’s The Red Violin (named one of NPR’s/WGBH’s Ten Top CD’s of 2007), the Lark Quartet’s Klap Ur Handz with works by Peter Schikele, Paul Moravec, George Gershwin, and Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) and, most recently, Trio Solisti’s Café Music and Pictures at an Exhibition for Bridge Records. With elegance, clarity, and uncommon insight, Lucy Miller shares her deep love for chamber music with new and experienced listeners alike. Phillip Ying, Violist The Ying Quartet Lucy Miller Murray combines a comprehensive understanding of chamber music with an infectious love of the form, to create notes that are at once informative, entertaining, and heart-felt. Stuart Malina, Music Director Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra How to describe Lucy Miller Murray’s program notes on the chamber music literature? Astonishing to zestful. Ralph Evans, Violinist Fine Arts Quartet Lucy Miller, champion of chamber music, offers delightfully fresh alternatives to those toilsome program notes that often confound meaningful listening experiences. James Bonn, Pianist Los Angeles Piano Quartet
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