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Pianist Rebecca Penneys is a recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral soloist, educator, and adjudicator.Rebecca Penneys
American-born pianist (born 1946)
Rebecca Penneys (born 1946) is an American-born pianist of Russian-Ukrainian-Jewish descent. She is a recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral soloist, educator, and adjudicator.
In 1965, she was the youngest contestant to enter the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw.[1]
Early life
Rebecca Penneys was born on October 2, 1946. Her mother, Rose Kaplan Penneys (1912–2010), worked for social causes, and her father, Alexander Penneys (1912–1994), was a doctor.
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Sol Kaplan, her uncle, was a pianist-conductor-composer, and her cousin, Boris Gorelick, was an artist.
Raised as a prodigy, Penneys grew up in Los Angeles studying piano from the age of 3, and dance from the age of 5.
Her primary mentors in California were Carmelita Maracci, dance, Victoria Front and Aube Tzerko, piano, and Leonard Stein, composition. She performed her first solo piano recital at the age of 9 and performed as soloist with the Los Angel