Back for its 6th Season, Dranoff 2 Piano & the Adrienne Arsht Center present PIANO SLAM 6

MIAMI - April 29, 2014 - PRLog -- Back for its 6th Season, Dranoff 2 Piano and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts present PIANO SLAM 6 - a Classical/Hip-Hop mash up featuring internationally acclaimed piano duo Yoo & Kim mixing up Bach, Poulenc and Gabriela Lena Frank with the beats of DJ Brimstone 127 and the debut works of Miami's hot young poets.  A FREE Concert directed by Teo Castellanos

PIANO SLAM , the Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation annual performance of piano music, spoken word, dance and hip hop, will take place on Thursday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m., at the Knight Concert Hall of the Adrienne Arsht Center, located at 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132 U.S.A. PIANO SLAM is a competition that combines the Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation’s award-winning pianists, dancers, renowned poets and spoken word artists, in collaboration with middle and high school students throughout Miami-Dade Country.

This year’s piano duo will be 2013 Dranoff Competition winners from South Korean Jaekyung Yoo and Yoon-Jee Kim.  2012 Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco is the Literary Chair. Actor/writer/director Teo Castellanos directs PIANO SLAM 6, which also features DJ Brimstone 127, Lenelle Moise, the steps of Luis Cuevas, and Miami’s Best Young Poets.   PIANO SLAM 6 enjoys the warm and enthusiastic support of the Miami HEAT whose Players and Pianos posters line Biscayne Boulevard and US 1.

The program presents live Dranoff classical duo piano artists in performance at multiple Miami-Dade Public Schools after which students are invited to write poetry about music and then create a spoken word experience for a county-wide competition. Dranoff pianists, professional rappers, award-winning poets, and other artists present Student poetry winners in a Classical/Hip Hop/Spoken Word extravaganza concert in the Knight Concert Hall at the Arsht. Student winners receive cash prizes and are eligible to win laptop computers. There is no fee to participate and PIANO SLAM is Free for Everyone but tickets are required.  For tickets visit www.arschtcenter.org or call the Arsht box office (305) 949-6722.

About Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation

Accredited by the World Federation of International Music Competitions, the Dranoff is the only international foundation dedicated to discovering, promoting, and honoring top professional piano duos through its competition, commissions, and duo piano concert presentations. It is the only international foundation, accredited by the World Federation of International Music Competitions, to discover, promote, and award honors to top professional duo piano artists through its competition, commissions, and presentations of duo piano concerts. The Dranoff exposes its home audiences to major international artists from over 30 countries on six continents, thereby creating a cultural bridge to foster universal understanding and respect through music. Since 2004 the Dranoff has expanded the scope of its activities to promote awareness of the transformational power of music through Piano Slam, an annual program that involves a new generation of students in a multi-disciplinary genre-bending evening of classical music, poetry and hip hop.

For More information  visit the Dranoff 2 Piano Website   www.dranoff2piano.org

Or Call (305) 572-9900

PIANO SLAM 6 is presented by Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, generously sponsored by Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Steinway and Sons, the Miami HEAT, Children’s Trust, Books & Books, BNY Mellon Bank, The Batchelor Foundation,  Classical South Florida 89.7 FM, Publix, New World School of the Arts, Shutts & Bowen, The Betsy Hotel, and WLRN.