Michelle Cann's debut with the North Carolina Symphony included concerts in Raleigh and Chapel Hill in 2018. She performed Piano Concerto in One Movement by Florence Price.

Lauded as “technically fearless with…an enormous, rich sound” (La Scena Musicale), Michelle Cann made her orchestral debut at age fourteen and has since performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Atlanta and Cincinnati symphony orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Cann’s 2022/23 season includes an appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, return engagements with the Cincinnati and New Jersey symphony orchestras, and debut performances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra as well as the New World, Seattle, and Utah symphonies. She makes her debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York Youth Symphony.

Cann is the recipient of the 2022 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization. She has also appeared as co-host and collaborative pianist with NPR’s From the Top. 

Cann studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, where she serves on the piano faculty as the inaugural Eleanor Sokoloff Chair in Piano Studies.