DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC FACULTY ARTIST SERIES
After Beethoven
JAY DeWIRE, PIANO
Sunday
September 13, 2020 Pealer Performing Arts Center 3:00 p.m. Pealer Recital Hall PROGRAM BIOGRAPHY
JAY DEWIRE, piano, has performed across the Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) United States as a soloist, collaborator, and member of the West Shore Trio. Highlights include two performances as soloist with the Prince George’s Philharmonic, concerts in Chautauqua, Los Angeles Abegg Variations, Op. 1 Robert Schumann and New Mexico. with the West Shore Piano Trio, a (1810-1856) performance at the North American Saxophone Alliance in Lubbock,Texas with Dr. Brent Weber and Dr. Mark Gallagher, and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts with Dr. Mark Gallagher. He teaches piano Barcarolle, Op. 60 Frederick Chopin and history at Frostburg State University. (1810-1849) Dr. DeWire began playing piano at the age of four and gave his first solo recital at age 12. He received a B.A. with High Distinction and a Master of Arts in piano performance from the University of Virginia, and a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory. In December of 2007 he INTERMISSION received a D.M.A. from the University of Maryland School of Music (College Park). He has studied with such distinguished pianists as Joanne Haroutounian, Mimi Tung, Gabriel Chodos, Bradford Gowen, Steve Drury, John Moriarty, and Larissa Dedova. He has performed in master classes for Sonetto 47 del Petrarca Franz Liszt Claude Frank, Andre Watts, Ruth Laredo, and Tigran Alikhanov, the (1811-1886) Director of the Moscow Conservatory, and appeared in several competitions
including: The National Society of Arts and Letters Competition, National
Symphony Orchestra Competition, Baldwin Competition, Washington, DC
Trois études de concert Franz Liszt Beethoven Competition (Honorable Mention), and was a finalist in the No. 2 -- 'La leggierezza' American Musicological Society (Mid-Atlantic Chapter) Writing Competition. Dr. DeWire has also received numerous prizes including the Brander Wyatt Morrison Prize, and a Dean of Faculty Fellowship (UVa), as well as scholarships at the University of Maryland, New England Fantasie in C Major, Op. 15 'Wanderer' Franz Schubert Conservatory and University of Virginia. (1797-1828)