Competition R
ecital
On Friday evening, April 3, 2009, world renowned pianist and Competition juror David Allen Wehr will perform a recital for the public and young artists participating in the Competition. The Competition finalists will be announced during this special event.
About Juror and Recitalist
David Allen Wehr
American pianist David Allen Wehr has played over 1000 concerts in thirty countries since winning the Gold Medal at the 1987 Santander International Piano Competition in Spain. Career highlights include performances at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican Centre (soloist with the London Symphony), and Wigmore Hall (with the Sartory Trio), the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Kennedy Center in Washington (soloist with the National Symphony) and Carnegie Hall in New York. Wehr toured the US and Canada for 13 seasons with Community Concerts as recitalist and chamber music artist, and presently holds the Jack W. Geltz Distinguished Piano Chair at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his current performance project is “Brahms on the Bluff,” a three-year series devoted to the complete chamber music of Brahms.
Wehr has built a large discography with Connoisseur Society, including the complete Beethoven Sonata Cycle, of which the American Record Guide recently said, “An investment in this new series is both justifiable and necessary.” Other releases contain works by Brahms, Chopin, Czerny, Debussy, Delius, Gershwin, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and Utterback.
Born in Princeton, New Jersey, into a musical family, Wehr graduated from the University of Kansas, where he studied with Sequeira Costa. He is in demand worldwide as a judge for piano competitions and master class clinician, most recently at the 2007 International Collaborative Conference in Toronto held by Music Teachers National Association and the Canadian Music Teachers Federation.
For further information, please visit Mr. Wehr’s website at
www.davidallenwehr.com
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