SFCM Orchestra with Lara Downes and Edwin Outwater

Honored as 2022's Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today, American pianist Lara Downes has been called “a musical ray of hope” by NBC News and “an explorer whose imagination is fired by bringing notice to the underrepresented and forgotten” (The Log Journal). An iconoclast and trailblazer, her dynamic work as a sought–after soloist, a Billboard Chart–topping recording artist, a producer, curator, arts activist and advocate positions her...