DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

PIANO

STUDIO

RECITAL

DR. JAY DEWIRE

PIANO INSTRUCTOR

Sunday November 8, 2020 Pealer Performing Arts Center 3:00 p.m. Pealer Recital Hall PROGRAM BIOGRAPHY

Rhapsody in B minor, Op. 76 #1 JAY DEWIRE, piano, has performed across the (1833-1897) United States as a soloist, collaborator, and member Luke Liu of the West Shore Trio. Highlights include two performances as soloist with the Prince George’s Philharmonic, concerts in Chautauqua, Los Angeles Valse in C# minor, Op. 64 #2 Frederic Chopin and New Mexico. with the West Shore , a (1810-1849) performance at the North American Saxophone Prelude in C# minor, Op. 3 #2 Alliance in Lubbock,Texas with Dr. Brent Weber and (1873-1943) Dr. Mark Gallagher, and the South Carolina Andrew Hartnett Governor’s School for the Arts with Dr. Mark Gallagher. He teaches piano and history at Frostburg State University. Dr. DeWire began playing piano at the age of four and gave his first Sonata in B minor, Hob. XVI: 32 Joseph Haydn solo recital at age 12. He received a B.A. with High Distinction and a Master I. Allegro moderato (1732-1809) of Arts in piano performance from the University of Virginia, and a Master II. Menuet of Music from the New England Conservatory. In December of 2007 he III. Presto received a D.M.A. from the University of School of Music (College Robert Bittinger 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 From Children’s Corner: Claude Frank, Andre Watts, Ruth Laredo, and Tigran Alikhanov, the II. Jimbo’s Lullaby (1862-1918) Director of the , and appeared in several competitions Prelude in C minor, WTC I J.S. Bach including: The National Society of Arts and Letters Competition, National (1685-1750) Symphony Orchestra Competition, Baldwin Competition, Washington, DC Morgan Danver Beethoven Competition (Honorable Mention), and was a finalist in the American Musicological Society (Mid-Atlantic Chapter) Writing Competition. Dr. DeWire has also received numerous prizes including the Sonata Bela Bartok Brander Wyatt Morrison Prize, and a Dean of Faculty Fellowship (UVa), as I. Allegro moderato (1881-1945) well as scholarships at the University of Maryland, New England II. Sostenuto e pesante Conservatory and University of Virginia. III. Allegro molto Luke Liu