Piano virtuoso to perform Sunday at Trinity
The Ilse Newell Fund for the Performing Arts will feature American Piano Awards finalist Sasha Kasman Laude at a concert this Sunday, April 13 at 4 p.m. ET at Trinity Episcopal Church in Apalachicola.
Born in 1995 in Moscow to a pair of accomplished pianists, Sasha moved with her family to America after her father received an offer to teach at the University of Alabama’s Birmingham campus.
She began studying with her father at age 11, and received a master of music degree from the Juilliard School, and later a doctorate of musical arts from the University of Michigan.
Kasman Laude has lectured and taught masterclasses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lee University, Utah State University, Bowling Green State University, and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. She is an assistant professor of piano at Utah State University.
Kasman Laude has triumphed in numerous international competitions; most recently, she became a finalist in the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition (Canada). She has been a soloist with over a dozen symphony orchestras in the USA and abroad, including the Juilliard Orchestra and Calgary Symphony, and has appeared seven times with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine.
Pre-concert tickets are available at Eventbrite at www.inconcertapalachicola.org for $20 each. $25 at the door. Students admitted free. Open seating, doors open at 3:30 p.m.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.