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Stephanie Wendt
Pianist Stephanie Wendt has performed to enthusiastic audiences on five continents. Passionate about sharing classical music with diverse audiences, she has performed in venues ranging from a maximum-security prison to Avery Fisher Hall in New York. Critics praise her power, finesse and spirit of adventure.
Wendt holds degrees from The Curtis Institute of Music and Indiana University, and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota. She has served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, the University of Indianapolis and Bethel University.
Born in New Zealand, Wendt received her first musical training in Australia.
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Stephanie Wendt as Clara Schumann
Photo credit: Ann Marsden
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Clara's Visitor
Featuring Clara Schumann's words and compositions, and music by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.Written and performed by Stephanie Wendt.
Clara Schumann's riveting story is brought to life in the one-woman show, Clara's Visitor. Pianist and actress Stephanie Wendt becomes Clara, using her words, her compositions, and music of her luminary loved ones. Set in Clara's mid-life, the play reveals her fervor and vulnerabilities, her brilliance and determination.
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Intimacies, Stephanie Wendt's debut CD, contains works by three composers whose lives were deeply intertwined: Clara Wieck Schumann, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Much of the music on the disc is rarely performed or recorded, but full of beauty and intimate feeling. The disc has won widespread praise. Limelight, Australia's national arts magazine, noted, "Wendt is a consummate interpreter of the music of both Robert and, more unusually, Clara Schumann . . . [she] chooses works that demonstrate Clara's prodigious talent as a composer and international concert pianist. . . .Wendt's playing is both expressive and illuminating and allows us to have some insight into those three famous lives."
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