Awadagin Pratt

Awadagin Pratt is a musical triple-threat performer, being the Peabody Conservatory's first student awarded simultaneous performance degrees in three areas: piano, violin, and conducting. However, he spends the majority of his professional career as a pianist performing as a soloist, as a collaborator in chamber music projects, and as an educator at a variety of programs, whether at schools or festivals. Pratt was born on March 6, 1966, in Pittsburgh. His father's family in Sierra Leone valued education, and everyone was taught to play piano or organ, as well as sports. The s...