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[Sodi Braide: Franck, œuvres pour piano; Lyrinx\Talents LYR 249 (2006)]

AfriClassical has followed the career of the Nigerian pianist Sodi Braide with great interest for some time.

A link to an audio sample of his playing can be found in the upper right corner of the blog.

Sodi Braide I was in Liechtenstein over these last few days.

In , the Alink-Argerich Foundation took a new initiative, to award a special prize - the AAF Award - to a pianist who is not among the main prize winners.

Hard to say - I'm sorry I have to cancel my next three performances in July in Orange (France), Düsseldorf & Ingelheim am Rhein (Germany).

Sodi Braide, who studied at the Paris National Conservatory of Music (CNSM), and Stéphanie Aubert) used to bring me to my current.

Since the first edition held in , The Leeds International Piano Competition has become one of the world's foremost music competitions.

Sodi has a new website in English and French. His many concerts are listed at his MySpace page. Sodi will perform two recitals and give one masterclass while in Ohio and Illinois in the coming week:

Monday, February 16, 2009, 8:00 pm, Recital, Mees Auditorium, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio

Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 12:15 pm, Recital, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center

Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 8:00 pm, Masterclass, Wheaton College of Music, Wheaton, Illinois

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts

Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 12:15 p.m.

Impromptu in c minor, Op.

90, No. 1, D899; Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)

Ballade No. 2 in b minor (1853); Franz Liszt (1811 –