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Carol Schultz Honigberg

Carol Honigberg has appeared as piano soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe. She has performed at Alice Tully Hall in New York City, as soloist with the Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago, in recital at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and in live programs on radio WFMT. She has recently participated in summer festivals in Ceret, France and Sun Valley, Idaho, performed at the Chopin Festival in Washington, D.C., and participated on the Chamber Music Series from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Carol Honigberg has recorded the Samuel Barber Piano Concerto and Piano Sonata for the Musical Heritage Society, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in the solo piano version for Pavane Records in Belgium, and the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for cello and piano, as well as Chopin’s music for cello and piano with cellist Steven Honigberg on the Albany label. She recently recorded Chamber Music by Donald Draganski for Winds and Piano, performed by the Pilgrim Chamber Players, of which she is Artistic Director. Carol Honigberg is a former faculty member at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and presently teaches at the Music Institute of Chicago, Lake Forest campus. She received her Masters of Music from Northwestern University. Her teachers have included Rudolph Ganz, Gui Mombaerts, and in Paris with Marguerite Long. She has recently been chosen to receive the 2009 City of Highland Park Mayor's Award for the Arts.

Carol and Joel have been married for 44 years and have 4 married children and eight grandchildren ranging in age from 10 to 14 years old. They have lived in Highland Park, Illinois since 1960.

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