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Bridget Hough, Locally Renowned Pianist, Closes LMA's 2019-2020 Concert Season Bridget Hough, well-known throughout the Central Coast as piano soloist and accompanist extraordinaire, will present the final program of the concert season. Hough, in her own words, “has a deep appreciation for academic institutions, especially the University of California System”, where she received her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, and her Masters and Doctorate in Collaborative Piano under the tutelage of Robert Koenig and Paul Berkowitz. In her varied career, she has performed widely in the United States and abroad, as an accompanist for master classes and for well-known groups such as the St. Lawrence and Emerson String Quartets. She has been an invited pianist for summer festivals, including the Schubert-Institut in Austria, where she worked with pianists Helmut Deutsch, Julius Drake, and Roger Vignoles, and the prestigious Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar in Potsdam, New York, led by Stephanie Blythe and Alan Smith. The first half of Hough’s program at the Valley of the Flowers on March 29 will include compositions by four Russian composers -- Modest Mussorgsky, Sergei Rachmaninov, Aram Khatchaturian, and Igor Stravinsky. This all-Russian segment was planned in honor of her grandmother, a Lompoc resident who is part Russian. The second half will be selections by Felix Mendelssohn and Frederic Chopin.