Starla Hibler-Raley ’81 performed a solo piano recital as part of the Ocean Classical Keyboard Series at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA, Sunday, March 16th at 2:30 p.m. in the McKinney Theatre.
Pianist Starla Hibler-Raley holds D.M.A. and M.M. Degrees in piano
performance from the University of North Texas where she was a pupil of
Joseph Banowetz, and a B.M. degree from Illinois Wesleyan University. Dr.
Raley also studied at the Vienna Conservatory of Music in Vienna, Austria.Last May, the Illinois native was named Professor of Music Emerita honoring
tenure of teaching at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma from 1991
until 2013. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including first
prize in the Ernst Krenek Competition of the Joanna Hodges International
Piano Competition, the “Oklahoma Music Teacher of the Year” award by the
Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs, and the first East Central University
Dean’s Travel Award, awarded in support of her solo performance of Aaron
Copland’s *Piano Sonata* in Toronto, Canada.Dr. Raley actively champions new music written for piano and, in 2012, gave
the world premiere performance of a set of six piano pieces, entitled
*Hermititos*, written by Texas composer Ken Metz. She has also premiered
several teaching pieces composed by Oklahoma composer, W.T. Skye Garcia,
published by The F.J.H. and Alfred Publishing Companies.
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