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Sandra Lynn Carlock, 76, of Huntingdon Valley, a famend pianist, recording artist, grasp music instructor, lecturer, and photographer, died Wednesday, Sept. 8, of glioblastoma at Rydal Park retirement neighborhood.
A toddler prodigy on the piano, Ms. Carlock recorded a number of albums, carried out and lectured round the USA, Europe, and elsewhere, performed in chamber music ensembles, and, since 2014, partnered with the French violinist Guillaume Combet to kind the Carlock-Combet Duo.
She was an Arthur Judson Distinguished College Chair at Settlement Music College and taught piano and chamber music there for greater than 50 years. She gained Settlement’s 1989 Sol Schoenbach Award for excellent service to the college and the Steinway & Sons’ annual high instructor award in 2016 and 2018.
“The devotion and dedication she had for her college students, their households, and Settlement was deeply inspiring,” Helen Eaton, Settlement’s chief govt officer, stated in a tribute. College officers additionally praised Ms. Carlock for her “undeniably sturdy work ethic and devoted mentorship.”
Her recordings and performances acquired a lot vital acclaim, and MusicWeb Worldwide stated that the Carlock-Combet Duo displayed “imaginative and clever programming carried out with fashion, panache and polish.”
The French music journal Classica praised the duo’s most up-to-date album, Romantic Violin Sonatas, and famous its “fixed insights from starting to finish” with “good approach, constancy to the music, impeccable articulation.”
Ms. Carlock had additionally embraced pictures lately, and her pictures are featured on the covers of two of her albums. She specialised in landscapes, cityscapes, structure, and portraits.
Born Nov. 5, 1944, Ms. Carlock was raised in McAlester, Okla. Her mom, Ruth, was a musician and piano instructor, and Ms. Carlock shocked her sooner or later when, at 3, she sat down and performed items she had heard a lot older pupils play.
“I can’t ever bear in mind a time once I couldn’t play the piano,” Ms. Carlock instructed interviewer Malcolm Stewart. “So that truly makes it one thing that’s so integral to who I’m. I believe that’s fairly fantastic in a approach.”
As a teen in Oklahoma, Ms. Carlock additionally preferred to climb bushes, be round animals, and browse. She skipped the seventh grade, graduated from highschool at 16, and earned a bachelor’s diploma in music on the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
She acquired a grasp’s diploma in music from the State College of New York at Stony Brook and did postgraduate research on the Juilliard College. She moved to Philadelphia, she instructed The Inquirer in 1997, to be near New York and reap the benefits of Philadelphia’s “energetic musical lifetime of its personal.” She lived in Melrose Park and Perkasie earlier than transferring to Huntingdon Valley.
Ms. Carlock stated Clara Schumann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin, and Johannes Brahms had been amongst her favourite composers. Performing, she instructed The Inquirer in a 1989 article, could be demanding. “It’s taking part of your self and placing it on show,” she stated.
Her sister, Ruth Ann, stated Ms. Carlock “was a very good large sister and at all times extraordinarily severe in regards to the piano.”
Kathleen Krull, Settlement’s Willow Grove department director, stated in a tribute that Ms. Carlock was an efficient instructor as a result of she had “the proper mixture of heat, excessive expectations, humor, and love of music and other people.”
Her brother, Ken, stated Ms. Carlock “cared about her college students to the nth diploma.”
One former scholar known as her “a pressure of life” and stated in a tribute, “I already actually miss her.”
Along with her sister and brother, Ms. Carlock is survived by former husband Lee Snyder and different family. Her second husband, Kurt Sotmon, died earlier.
A memorial live performance is to be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28, in Perelman Corridor on the Kimmel Cultural Campus, 300 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102.
