Haley Kallenberg

In May 2012 Kallenberg made her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City performing her winning composition in the IBLA Winners Concert. At the 2011 Ibla World Music Competition in Sicily, Italy, Kallenberg was awarded the Grand Prize “Most Distinguished Composer.” Additionally the International Jury committee made “Special Mention” of her own performance of her solo piano composition “JEX.”

A modern musical nomad for over fifteen years of ex-pat life, "Haley Kallenberg has brought her award-winning original compositions to international stages." — Time Out Beirut. She has done extensive performing of both her own original compositions and piano repertoire. Her career includes numerous concerts as a soloist in North and South America, Europe, East Asia, West Africa, and the Middle East. "Performing original material fits in perfectly with Haley Kallenberg, Dubai's premiere contemporary improvisational artist." — Gulf News, Dubai.

While living in Brazil, Kallenberg was a featured soloist performing her original compositions with the Symphonic Orchestra of the Federal University of Paraíba in 2014. In 2015, Kallenberg was selected to participate in the American Composers Orchestra - Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute at the Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA, in Los Angeles, California. In addition to performing, she has received a number of commissions for her work as a composer; including from members of the royal Al Mohair family while she was living in Dubai and from Parthenia Viols while completing her Masters in Music in New York City. In Spring 2015, Parthenia Viol Consort requested additional works from Kallenberg’s catalog of programmatic chamber music for children based on Aesop's fables. The works are scheduled to be featured in Parthenia's 2020 Concert program.

Kallenberg was born and raised in Alaska where she started studying piano at age three and took up composing as soon as she had command of the keys. She studied classical piano and composition throughout her entire childhood and attended Interlochen Summer Arts Camp in Michigan, USA during 1998 and 2000. At the age of twelve, she was featured in performance with Moscow Philharmonic pianist Galina Preobrazhenskaya in the United States. She graduated summa cum laude from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she finished a Bachelor of Music. She graduated from The Aaron Copland School of Music with a Master of Music in 2016. She currently lives in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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"Haley Kallenberg has brought her unique brand of music to the desert... Far from being predictable, Kallenberg, 27, spontaneously composes during performances, giving her audiences one-time only shows that won't ever be repeated again." — Gulf News, Dubai

"... an evening that promises plenty of improvisation from the talented pianist. Humor runs though a lot of Haley's work..." — Susan Rutherford, Dubai Eye 103.8 Radio

"Avec elle aussi, dès les premières mesures, le piano est brusquement hanté de féerie comme tous les gestes de la jeune interprète qui dodeline de la tête et emboîte le pas aux rythmes et cadences qui pleuvent comme des cordes, avec des moments de rêverie et de netteté d'un toucher chargé de tendresse. Éclats jazzy favorisés, mais aussi des tonalités américaines à la Joplin, Barber et Menotti. Avec, en figure de proue, des accords riches sur une base fragile de notes aigrelettes." — L’Orient-Le Jour, Beirut