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Music Monday | Full Circle, 27 Years Later | November 2, 2026
In 1999, Glen Inanga won a prize with his duo partner at the Dranoff International Two Piano Competition for the best performance of that year’s newly commissioned work. On Nov. 7, 27 years later, Glen Inanga returns to give the world premiere of the work we commissioned for our 40th anniversary.
Inanga’s path to the concert stage is anything but ordinary. His mother was his first piano teacher, and visiting concert pianists in Nigeria fired his ambition. He earned an engineering degree from the University of Cambridge on a British Council scholarship, then studied piano with Martin Roscoe at London’s Royal Academy of Music. He has since performed at Vienna’s Musikverein and co-founded the Cayman Arts Festival.
The premiere is Adam Schoenberg’s Scene Study: A Love Story.
“It’s almost a little bit like film music, almost like a soundtrack,” Inanga says. “It’s a wonderful piece that really does celebrate all these different moods that you would go through with this love story.” He performs it with pianist Rebeca Omordia, the Amernet String Quartet and bassist Paola García at Timeless Harmonies, our 40th anniversary season opener at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center.
Here he is with violist Eliesha Nelson in the opening movement of the Viola Sonata in D Major by Moscow-born Paul Juon, from their album Russian Viola Sonatas, which Strings magazine called “steeped in the yearning spirit of the Russian soul.”
Join us on Nov. 7 to celebrate 40 years of two pianos
With music that made history
