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Denver Oldham first began formal piano lessons at the age of five with Edna Dalton after his kindergarten teacher discovered him improvising on nursery rhymes. By the age of twelve he was performing with symphonies in the Long Island area regularly, and he soon held his first public solo recital at
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Beginning in 1982, Denver Oldham built up a library of recordings highlighting the works of varied, often underrepresented or minority
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Denver Oldham later moved to
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