Early this summer, Polish pianist Elżbieta Bilicka got some exciting news. Bilicka is 28 and lives in Logan, Utah, where she is on the piano faculty at Utah State University. At the time, the novel coronavirus was spreading rapidly throughout the United States and Europe, wreaking financial havoc on the performing arts. In the midst of this chaos, Bilicka received an email from a label called Orpheus Classical, soliciting musicians to apply to record an album. If Bilicka was selected, the company said, it would cover 75 percent of the costs of producing her record.
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