Charles Pettaway on The Cunningham Piano Show

Charles Pettaway is professor of piano at Lincoln University as well the head of their Department of Visual and Performing Arts. As a young pianist, Charles made history by being the first place winner of the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition. He went on to study with legendary piano pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. For this episode, Charles selected the hand-built Yamaha CF6 Grand Piano.

Works Performed:
Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel, D. 118 by Franz Schubert/Franz Liszt
Transcendental Étude No. 5, “Feux Follets” by Franz Liszt
My Favorite Things, arr. by Stephen Hough

Featured Piano: Yamaha CF6
Piano Technician: Sean Weissman
Shot on location at Cunningham Piano Co. in King of Prussia