About the artists

Guest artist Mack McCray and Lee faculty members Ning An and Cahill Smith will perform in recital at 7: 30 p. m. Friday, June 17, in Squires Recital Hall in the Humanities Center, 1250 Parker St. NE, on the Lee University campus in Cleveland, Tenn.

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MACK MCCRAY, a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1972, also serves as artistic director of the Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival in Courmayeur, Italy. He has performed with the Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo, on the all-Schubert series at Trinity Church in Manhattan, at the Carmel Bach Festival and at the Los Angeles County Art Museum, among other U. S. venues. McCray was the top prize winner of the International Enesco Competition in Bucharest and of the International Liszt Competition in Boston.

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NING AN has been hailed as a musician who “combines a flawless technique and mastery of the instrument.” His top prizes from the Queen Elizabeth, Cleveland and William Kapell Piano Competitions led to performances from Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall to Salle Verdi in Milan to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. An has been a top prize winner of the Paloma O’Shea Santander Competition, the Tivoli International Piano Competition, the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition and the Alfred Cortot Prize winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition. He serves as artist-teacher on the piano faculty of California State University, Fullerton, and as a visiting artist at Lee. ›

CAHILL SMITH, who started playing piano at age 10, earned his doctorate of musical arts in piano performance at the Eastman School of Music, where he held three graduate teaching assistantships and was awarded the Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He has performed in recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and been featured as soloist with the National Ukranian Symphony Orchestra in Kiev. He serves as an assistant professor of piano at Lee.

Cahill Smith

Ning An

Mack McCray