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Composer and pianist James Wilding is of British heritage, and was born and raised in South Africa. He studied at the University of Cape Town, and later moved to the United States to continue his studies at Youngstown State University and Kent State University. His musical mentors were Neil Solomon, Stewart Young, Peter Klatzow, and Thomas Janson. Praised by the Cape Times as ‘highly original,’ Wilding’s mastery of structure and lyricism, and his use of ethnic instruments, folk tunes, connections to art, photography, literature, and stories, capture audiences in the US and abroad. His work has been enthusiastically championed in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Senegal, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Britain, Canada, South Africa, and the USA, by such groups as the Escher Sring Quartet, the Stow Symphony Orchestra, the New York Middletown Wind Ensemble, the Harburger Orchester Akademie, the TEMPO ensemble, the Factory Seconds Trio, and the Chamber Music Society of Ohio. He has received commissions from Bayerischer Rundfunk, the South African Music Rights Organization, the Tuesday Musical Association, and the Orange County School of the Arts. Broadcasts of his music have taken place all over the world, including Bavaria Radio (Fürth), Fine Music Radio (Cape Town), SAFM (Johannesburg), WUOL (Louisville), and KKGO (Los Angeles). His piano piano pieces Etude and Poem were prescribed for the UNISA-Transnet International Piano Competition and the Hennie Joubert National Competition. He won the Oude Meester Prize for South African composers and the Chancellor’s Trust Prize of Potchefstroom University. His music is published by Hal Leonard, Musica Ferrum, Afri-Piano, and Wilding Publications. Dr. Wilding teaches composition and theory at The University of Akron in Ohio.