Serra-Brooks,
who has been performing on the professional stage for more than
a decade, was recently named as “One of the World’s
100 Best Classical Musicians” by the International
Who’s Who of Music and Musician’s Board in
Cambridge, England. She will receive the award at a ceremony
in early Spring 2005 in Europe. Ms. Serra-Brooks was especially
honored by the nomination since it is one that the board in
England decides on their own after reviewing a musician’s
work and visiting ‘live’ performances, rather than
a competition in which the musicians vie. Ms. Serra-Brooks will
also be published by the International Biographical Center,
and her recording, reviews and biography will be placed in the
Museum of International Musicians in London, England.
A
favorite with audiences for her sensitive and exciting interpretations,
Ms. Serra-Brooks hails from a long line of Romantics. A winner
in the 1997 Artists International Competition, Ms. Serra-Brooks
made her New York Recital Debut at Carnegie Hall on January
11,1998. Beverly made her west coast Debut in 1993 at the Japan-America
Theater in Los Angeles and since then has been performing in
concert halls across the United States. Ms. Serra-Brooks concertized
in Paris, France this past summer and has recently performed
at Johns-Hopkins University in Shriver Hall, as Guest Artist
in the Carmel Performing Arts Festival in northern California
and in a live recital over KUSC radio from the Bing Auditorium
in Los Angeles. American Pianist Beverly Serra-Brooks has also
been a Guest Artist on the List-Glen Festival Young Artist Series,
Kawai-America & Cerritos College subscription series, Fullerton
Symphony Concert Series, Prescott College Elks Theater 90th
Anniversary Series, Verde Valley Concert Association Series
and Gila Valley Concert Series in Arizona. Ms. Serra-Brooks
is a winner of numerous prizes and awards including the Harpo
Marx, James Irvine and Pillsbury Foundations Music Awards, the
Music Arts Club, the Simone Belsky Piano Competition and Fellowships
from the International Institute for Chamber Music in Germany
and the Music Academy of the West. Beverly is a recipient of
an American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France Performance
Scholarship, where she was featured in the famed Salle du jeu
de Paume Recital Series. Ms. Serra-Brooks was recently featured
on National Public Radios program "Performance Today"
in an Interview and Performance of her One Woman Piano Histro-Drama
about the life and performances of Clara Schumann entitled "Clara
Schumann at the Piano." This cutting edge mix of Theater
and Recital has received standing Ovations wherever it has been
performed including Spreckles Theater in San Diego, the Historic
Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara, Los Gatos and Arizona State
University. Ms. Serra-Brooks' performances have been featured
on Air-Canada International flights as part of their "Concert
Hour" entertainment channel and her current tour schedule
includes concerts in Wisconsin at the famous Mabel Tainter Theater,
Florida, Bently College in Boston and New York's Sullivan Performing
Arts series, among others.
A
Pasadena Ca., native, Beverly has concertized in Austria, Germany,
France and across the United States as well as Guest Artist
appearances in the American New Music Consortium's Concert Tour
of Italy. Beverly's piano coaches include James Shearer in Pasadena,
Dr. Reginald Stewart at the Music Academy of the West, Leonid
Hambro at California Institute of the Arts where she received
her BFA, Michel Beroff and Idil Biret at the American Conservatory
at Fontainebleau, France, an M.M. at California State University
at Northridge and in Austria with Jorg Demus. Ms. Serra-Brooks
is frequently invited to Adjudicate,give Masterclasses &
guest Artist residencies at Colleges & Universities and
is especially noted for her enthusiastic rapport with students.
Beverly is also a faculty member and Judge for the American
college of Musicians , an Executive Board member of MTA, and
the College Music Society.