Alex Beyer,
Pianist
Alex
Beyer, 22, has received warm praise for his performances nationally and
internationally. In 2016, he was the bronze medalist in the Queen
Elisabeth Competition, and was named one of five finalists of the
American Pianists Association Awards. In the last year, he has been a
guest soloist with the Brussels Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of
Belgium, the Royal Orchestra of Wallonia, the Harvard Radcliffe
Orchestra, and the Irish National Symphony Orchestra. He has also
performed with the Milwaukee, Charlotte, Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury,
and Bridgeport Symphony Orchestras, among others. He received Sixth
Prize at the 2015 US Chopin Competition. He was the recipient of Third
Prize, as well as the Beethoven and Irish National Symphony Orchestra
special awards at the 2015 Dublin International Piano Competition. Beyer
was a 2012 US Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
He has studied with Yoshie Akimoto, Matti Raekallio, and Melvin Chen. He
is currently studying with Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun at the New
England Conservatory, and is studying mathematics at Harvard.
In the summer months he has attended the Killington Music Festival,
Vianden Music Festival in Luxembourg, the Saarburg Festival in Germany,
and the Taos School of Music. In August 2015 he attended The
International Holland Music Sessions; he will return to Holland in
January 2017 as a part of the "New Masters on Tour" series.
He has collaborated with conductors Stephane Denève, Marin Alsop, Paul
Meyer, Federico Cortese, Alan Buribayev, Grzegorz Nowak, Constantine
Kitsopolous, T. Francis Wada, Carolyn Kuan, Leif Bjaland, and Gustav
Meier, and has regularly performed with Nicholas Kitchen and Yeesun Kim,
founding members of the Borromeo String Quartet. He has recently
performed in the Palais des Beaux Arts, Flagey Studio 4, the Irish
National Concert Hall, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Paul Hall, Stamford
Palace Theater, Weill Recital Hall, the New World Center and Woolsey
Hall. As the winner of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra concerto
competition, he made his Sanders Theater debut in 2015, and as a winner
of the NEC Piano Honors Competition he made his Jordan Hall debut in
2014.
Beyer has performed in and directed many benefit concerts for the Pequot
Library, Project Learn, Music for Youth, Mercy Learning Center, and
KEYS. A music history enthusiast, he established the lecture concert
series “Sundays at 4” and continues in Summer 2016 with “Summer Soirees”
at Pequot Library in Southport, Connecticut.
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Thank you for
your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts |
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