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                                                                            Dynasty Battles 

 

 

Dynasty Battles is the recipient of the 2021 Career Advancement Award of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia. He has been featured in a article with soprano Marietta Simpson in The Philadelphia Inquirer, and on music critic David Patrick Stearns’ radio program “Creatively Speaking” on Philadelphia’s WRTI (90.1FM).
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Upcoming projects include the world premiere of a concerto for the unusual combination of piano and chamber choir by composer Nina Shekhar with the multi-Grammy Award-winning The Crossing. Shekhar’s music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and many more. Battles
recently debuted a composition by multiple Grammy nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ted Hearne, composed for Dynasty himself. Other recent engagements include hall
debuts at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in a concert curated by John Adams, the Chicago Cultural Center’s Preston Bradley Hall as a featured artist in the International
Music Foundation’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, and the Benjamin Franklin Hall with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Additionally, he made his international debut at the Barbican Centre in London while in residency with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

​Career highlights include an invitation to perform George Walker’s Piano Sonata No. 1 in a private engagement at the distinguished composer’s home. In a project profiled by
The New York Times, he also performed in Bowerbird Philly’s ongoing series highlighting the works of Julius Eastman. He has also been invited to serve as a guest lecturer at renowned institutions, including the Curtis Institute of Music and Temple University.

Battles studies with concert pianist Leon Bates and Eve Wolf, pianist, and Executive Artistic Director of Ensemble for the Romantic Century. A native of Philadelphia, Dynasty received a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, cum laude from Temple University, under the instruction of Harvey Wedeen as a recipient of the Esther Boyer College Scholarship.