Latest Release
James Lee III: Recuerdos Diaspóricos
world premiere recording ∙ released 07/08/22 on Blue Griffin Records
Spanish for “diasporic memories,” Recuerdos Diaspóricos was composed in 2018 by rising Black composer, pianist, and educator James Lee III.
Cover art: Brittany Symone
latest album
Scenes in Tin Can Alley: Piano Music of Florence Price
Cover art: Brittany Symone
Released 06/03/2022 on Blue Griffin Records, Scenes in Tin Can Alley includes the first commercial recordings of rediscovered piano music of the prolific African American composer Florence Price, including her Scenes in Tin Can Alley, Village Scenes, Cotton Dance (Presto), Thumbnail Sketches of a Day in the Life of a Washerwoman, and Three Miniature Portraits of Uncle Ned.
Reviews for Scenes in Tin Can Alley
“An absolutely lovely disc... [Cullen] believes in this music and plays it with finesse, flair, and conviction.”
“He is a reliable advocate for [Price’s] piano oeuvre”
“An excellent ‘way in’ to Price at her freest and best...”
“Extraordinary grace and extremely pleasant... [Cullen] plays this music with considerable commitment and outstanding technical prowess”
“Pianist Josh Tatsuo Cullen displays a commanding technical arsenal coupled to elegant musicality and profound and evocative sensitivity in a lovingly curated and annotated album”
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About Josh
Josh Tatsuo Cullen (he/him) is acclaimed for his “astounding mixture of coolness and intensity" (Stuttgart Zeitung) and has been praised for his “delicious” collaboration by The New York Times. He has performed as solo and collaborative pianist at venues throughout the world.
His recordings include Beethoven’s piano concertos nos. 1, 2 and 3, and Mozart’s concerto for two pianos in E-flat major with his mentor, Paul Badura-Skoda, all with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra led by Paul Freeman. At age nine he performed Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major, K. 488 with the Moscow Philharmonic at Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, recording the work in studio the same week.
Josh holds a master’s degree in piano from The Juilliard School, and a master’s degree in collaborative piano from New York University. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan at age 16.
Born in Hawaii and raised outside of Detroit, Josh proudly served in the United States Army for over a decade as an interpreter and interrogator.
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