Owen Dodds, Piano

Owen Dodds is a pianist and composer from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He currently lives in New York where he performs regularly as a classical soloist, chamber musician, songwriter, and performer/composer of electro-acoustic music. Owen was recently featured as a soloist at Carnegie Hall in May of 2022, at Czech Center New York in 2020, and at The New School’s Tech Forward concert series in 2021.

His modern folk duo, Early Gray, has performed at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theatre, has been featured on PBS North Carolina, and has collaborated with artists including Gabriel Kahane and Tanner Porter.

Owen has appeared as a concerto soloist with the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra and the National Honoured Academic Orchestra of Ukraine. His teachers have included Vladimir Valjarevic of Mannes School of Music, Gila Goldstein of Boston University, and Dmitri Shteinberg of UNC School of the Arts. Owen is currently pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook University in the studio of Gilbert Kalish.