Ursula Oppens is widely admired for her original and perceptive readings of new music as well as for her knowing interpretations of the standard repertoire. No other artist alive today has commissioned and premiered more new works for the piano. A prolific and critically acclaimed recording artist with five Grammy nominations, she most recently released a new recording of Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated, nominated for a Grammy in 2016, and Piano Songs, a collaboration with Meredith Monk. Earlier Grammy nominations were for Winging It: Piano Music of John Corigliano; Oppens Plays Carter; a recording of the complete piano works of Elliott Carter for Cedille Records; Piano Music of Our Time featuring compositions by John Adams, Elliott Carter, Julius Hemphill, and Conlon Nancarrow; and her cult classic The People United Will Never Be Defeated by Rzewski on Vanguard. She recently added to her extensive discography by releasing a two-piano CD for Cedille Records devoted to Visions de l’Amen of Oliver Messiaen and Debussy’s En blanc et noir performed with pianist Jerome Lowenthal. As an orchestral soloist, she has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the London Philharmonic. She is also an avid chamber musician and has performed with the Arditti, Cassatt, JACK, Juilliard, and Pacifica quartets. On the faculty at Mannes College, Oppens is a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.