Spencer Myer, Piano, October 16, 2011
SPENCER MYER is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most outstanding pianists of his generation.
Please follow this link to see the concert program: October 16, 2011 Spencer Myer program
He is the 2006 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellow of the American Pianists Association, winning in April 2006 one of two $75,000 Fellowships offered through the APA’s unique and innovative competition process, in addition to both of the competition’s special prizes in Chamber Music and Lieder Accompanying.
Spencer Myer is also the Gold Medalist of the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition, garnering stellar audience and critical acclaim from around the globe, rapidly establishing himself as one of the most outstanding pianists of his generation.
This performance is sponsored by Jeff Leiter and Sherman Clay of Roseville
Current Season
Following a summer that included Spencer Myer’s debut with Guadalajara’s Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, an encore collaboration with the Miami String Quartet at Ohio’s Kent/Blossom Music and returns to the Mendocino Music Festival and the Quad Cities and Cape Cod Chamber Music Festivals, Myer includes in his current season his fifth return tour of South Africa, debuts with Boston’s Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and the Acadiana, Springfield and Juneau Symphony Orchestras, returns to the Wyoming and Bozeman Symphony Orchestras and his solo recital debut at London’s Wigmore Hall, in addition to solo recitals throughout the United States. We are very excited to have him on the InConcert Sierra Third Sunday Season!
Performance History
Spencer Myer’s orchestral, recital and chamber music performances have been heard throughout North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has been a soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and Beijing’s China National Symphony Orchestra, and has collaborated with, among others, conductors Nicholas Cleobury, Jacques Lacombe, Jahja Ling, Maurice Peress, Klauspeter Seibel, Arjan Tien and Victor Yampolsky. In May 2005, his recital/orchestral tour of South Africa included a performance of the five piano concerti of Beethoven with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa. Mr. Myer made his debut at the famed festival of the Blossom Music Center during the summer of 2007.
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. 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 the performance roster of Astral Artists 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, New York City’s New Triad for Collaborative Arts and The Juilliard School’s “Composers and Choreographers” series.
Professional History
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. 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. He has served on the faculties of the Oberlin and Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatories of Music as Visiting Professor of Piano. His Doctor of Musical Arts degree was conferred by Stony Brook University in 2005.
In addition to harmonia mundi usa, Spencer Myer can be heard on the Dimension Records label, performing music of the late Cleveland composer Frederick Koch, and on the Naxos label performing the Chamber Concerti of Huang Ruo as part of the International Contemporary Ensemble. Spencer Myer is a Steinway Artist.
Spencer Myer is brought to us through special arrangement with the American Pianists Association.
