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Pianist Derek Han, founding member of Sarasota’s La Musica festival, dies at 63 Jay Handelman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune © PROVIDED BY BILL WAGY Pianist Derek Han in a performance of the La Musica International Music Festival in Sarasota. For more than three decades, pianist Derek Han was at the heart of the widely acclaimed La Musica International Chamber Music Festival each spring in Sarasota.  He was there from the beginning in 1987, working alongside Artistic Director Br...

A child prodigy who graduated from Juilliard at 18, Derek Han was the associate artistic director of Sarasotas La Musica Chamber Music Festival.