Memorial

Dale Elliott, pianist, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, studied as a child prodigy with Powell Everhart. After graduating from Georgia State University and the University of Georgia, Dale continued his musical studies at The Juilliard School of Music in New York. An internationally acclaimed concert artist, Dale Elliott has performed for Queen Beatrix of Holland, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan, and with Robert Shaw and The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Dale Elliott is a longtime personal friend of Georgia United States Senator Max Cleland, and has performed for numerous events on Max Cleland’s behalf for the past ten years. For six years Dale was considered among the top piano stylists in New York City, performing long-standing engagements at The Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Windows on the World, the Vista Hotel in the World Trade Center, Bottom Line, Barbizon Hotel, Sign of the Dove, Harvard Club, and The Grand Finale, as well as appearing regularly on television and radio. Dale Elliott has made three solo recordings: Dale Elliott, His First Album. Don’t Stop, and That Was the Life. In Atlanta, Georgia, Dale was a co-host of WSB-TV’s Today in Georgia for three years, has had long engagements at Ritz-Carlton Buckhead Hotel, Swiss Hotel Atlanta, Public House, Country Place, The Martini Club, The Crowne Ravinia Hotel, and LickSkillet Farm Restaurant. During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Dale was the German contingency’s featured artist at various events. Presently Dale performs at the Lenox J. W. Marriott, is exclusive Special Events pianist for Coca-Cola, Saks Fifth Avenue, Rich’s and MCI. Dale Elliott has also played at the Maranatha Church in Plains, GA, former President Jimmy Carter’s home church, at The Rylander Theatre in Americus, GA, and is a featured artist for The Steinway Society.