August 19, 2002
Monday, 2:00 PM
Piano Master Class
Mr. David Deveau
       

Program

Prelude and fugue XII, BWV 857                  Bach
Tina Ho

Sonata Op. 81a "Das Lebewohl"                   Beethoven
Alice Chen

Ballade No. 3, Op. 47 in Ab Major               Chopin
Anita Hsiao-Ling Lin

Paganini Etude No. 6                                     Lizst
Larry Weng


Mr. DAVID DEVEAU

Artistic Director David Deveau has established himself as one of this
country's most important musicians: performer, artist-teacher, impresario,
presenter, radio personality, recording artist, and international competition
judge.

As a performer, Mr. Deveau has earned enthusiastic praise from major
publications including the New York Times ("Revealing virtuosity….a deeply
thoughtful, artistic personality with a most supple, fluent technique"), The
Boston Globe ("Dazzling…playing in the grand manner"), the San Francisco
Chronicle ("A total virtuoso!"), the Minneapolis Star-Tribune ("Supremely
beautiful and arresting playing"), and The American Record Guide ("Piano
playing of intelligence, beauty, wit and color").

His major orchestral engagements over the last two decades include
performances with the Boston Symphony (Haitink), Boston Pops (Williams), San
Francisco Symphony (Blomstedt), Minnesota Orchestra (Silverstein), as well as
the Houston, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras. He was again
soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony in April 2000 in a performance of the
Beethoven Triple Concerto. Locally, he has appeared as soloist with the
Handel and Haydn Society, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic,
Civic Symphony of Boston, New Philharmonia, and the Newton Symphony. He has
also been soloist with the Juilliard, New England Conservatory, MIT, and
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestras.

In solo recital, David Deveau made his critically heralded New York debut at
Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center in 1982 as the recipient of a prestigious
Solo Recitalist Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Prior to
this, in 1978, he was winner of the International Concert Artist Guild Award
(in chamber music), which resulted in his chamber music debut at Weill Hall
at Carnegie Hall. He has since performed frequently in New York at Town Hall,
Merkin Hall, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, and Lincoln Center.
Around the nation, he has appeared in recital at San Francisco's Herbst
Theater, Seattle's Benaroya Hall, Minneapolis's Orchestra Hall, Pittsburgh's
Heinz Hall, the Troy, New York Savings Bank Hall, Atlanta's Spivey Hall, and
myriad series throughout the US and Canada.

In chamber music, David Deveau has performed with members of the Juilliard,
Borromeo, Muir, Mendelssohn, Orion and St. Lawrence string quartets, and has
been a guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society on several
occasions. Much in demand at summer music festivals, he has appeared in
concert at Wolf Trap, Tanglewood, Caramoor, Mainly Mozart (San Diego),
Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains (Colorado), the
Montana Music Festival, the Viennese Sommerfest of the Minnesota Orchestra,
and Bay Chamber Concerts in Maine. He is pianist of SONOS, a piano quartet
based at MIT and heralded "Best new chamber music group of 1995" by the
Boston Globe.

As a collaborative artist, he tours annually with famed clarinet virtuoso
Richard Stoltzman, and with Tchaikovsky Violin Competition winner Andres
Cardenes. He has appeared with such noted artists as Carol Wincenc, flute,
Joseph Silverstein, violin, and Andres Diaz, cello. He will tour Japan in
December 2002.

A music-faculty member at MIT, Mr. Deveau was himself a student of Russell
Sherman, Veronica Jochum, Beveridge Webster and Gaby Casadesus. He received
his formal musical education at the New England Conservatory, the Juilliard
School, and at L'Academie Internationale de Musique: Maurice Ravel in St.
Jean de Luz, France. He has also coached with pianist Richard Goode.

David Deveau has recorded solo works for Centaur and EcoClassics, and is
heard frequently on NPR, PRI, CBC, BBC, and Performance Today. He was
featured on NPR's "Milestones of the Millennium" series in Washington, DC,
and was also the featured guest on the nationally broadcast NPR Connection
program, "Piano Century" in April 1999.



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