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Gold Medalist of the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition, SPENCER MYER is garnering stellar audience and critical acclaim from around the globe, rapidly establishing himself as one of the most outstanding pianists of his generation. Following a summer that included debuts at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival and the Meadowlark Music Festival, Spencer Myer’s current season is highlighted by debuts with the Bozeman, Knoxville, Richmond (IN) and Wyoming symphony orchestras and return engagements with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, as well as solo and collaborative recitals throughout the United States. Spencer Myer’s recital appearances have been presented in New York City’s Weill Recital Hall, 92nd Street Y and Steinway Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and London’s Wigmore Hall, as well as in Chicago, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Knoxville, Logan and China, while many of his performances have been broadcast on WQXR (New York City), WHYY (Philadelphia), WCLV (Cleveland) and WFMT (Chicago). An avid chamber musician, he has also performed with the Blair and Pacifica string quartets. In January 2007, Mr. Myer performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue at the Inaugural Festivities of Ohio’s Governor Ted Strickland and Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher. In 2004, Spencer Myer captured First Prize in the 10th UNISA International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa, as well as special prizes for the best performances of Bach, the commissioned work, the semifinal round recital and both concerto prizes in the final round. He is also a laureate in the 2007 William Kapell, 2005 Cleveland, 2005 Busoni (where he was also awarded the Audience Prize), 2004 Montréal and 2003 New Orleans International Piano Competitions. Winner of the 2006 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship from the American Pianists Association, Mr. Myer also received both of the competition’s special prizes in Chamber Music and Lieder Accompanying. He is also the winner of the 2000 Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition, and subsequently enjoys a growing reputation as a vocal collaborator. Mr. Myer has been a member of Astral Artistic Services’ performance roster since winning that organization’s 2003 national auditions. An enthusiastic supporter of the education of young musicians, Spencer Myer has been a frequent guest artist at workshops for students and teachers, including Indiana’s Goshen College Piano Workshop and the Texas Conservatory for Young Artists in Dallas, and has served on the faculty of the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. He is also an advocate of contemporary music and inter-arts collaboration, and has worked with the Chicago- and New York-based ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), Indianapolis’ Dance Kaleidoscope, Ohio Dance Theatre and New York City’s New Triad for Collaborative Arts and The Juilliard School’s “Composers and Choreographers” series. Spencer Myer is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Julian Martin. Other teachers include Peter Takács, Joseph Schwartz and Christina Dahl. He spent two summers at the Music Academy of the West, studying with Jerome Lowenthal and, later, Vocal Accompanying with Warren Jones and Marilyn Horne. During the course of his undergraduate studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he was the recipient of numerous awards from that institution, while, in 2000, he was named a recipient of a four-year Jacob K. Javits Memorial Fellowship from the United States Department of Education. His Doctor of Musical Arts degree was conferred by Stony Brook University in 2005. Spencer Myer can be heard on the Dimension Records label, performing music of the late Cleveland composer Frederick Koch and on a composer-conducted Naxos CD in performances of three concerti from Huang Ruo’s Chamber Concerto Cycle. His debut CD for harmonia mundi usa - music of Busoni, Copland, Debussy and Kohs - was released in the fall of 2007. |
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"With crisp timing, exquisite touch, and a firm grasp os musical proportion, American pianist Spencer Myer earned the top spot in the 20th annual New Orleans International Piano Competition. His 50-minute recital matched what veteran observers and the six-person jury had seen throughout the competition: an unruffled professional who consistently drew singing, lyrical sounds from his Steinway concert grand." |
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| 7/15/2008 (7:30pm) MEADOWLARK MUSIC FESTIVAL Whitcomb-Lee Conservatory, Doane College (Crete, NE) Beethoven: Piano Sonata #24 Debussy: Images, Book II Stravinsky: 4 Etudes Albéniz: Iberia, Book I Liszt: Venezia e Napoli 7/19/2008 (7:30pm) MEADOWLARK MUSIC FESTIVAL Kimball Recital Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Beethoven: Piano Sonata #24 Chopin: Barcarolle Vine: Piano Sonata #1 Schumann: Piano Quintet with Jupiter String Quartet 8/12/2008 (8pm) CAPE COD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Cotuit Center for the Arts Vieuxtemps: Viola Sonata with Rebecca Young, violist Brahms: Clarinet Trio with Jon Manasse, clarinetist Andrés Días, cellist 8/15/2008 (8pm) CAPE COD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL First Congregational Church of Wellfleet Fauré: Piano Quartet #1 with Philip Setzer, violinist Rebecca Young, violist Andrés Días, cellist 9/13/2008 (7:30pm) RICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (IN) |
