David Korevaar's mastery of the piano is joined with a large and varied repertoire, and enhanced by his work with living composers and his own experience writing music. He successfully balances an active performing career as a soloist and chamber musician with teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is Associate Professor of Piano.
Mr. Korevaar has been heard at major venues in New York including Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall, and Merkin Concert Hall. He has performed across the United States from Boston, New York and Washington, DC to Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Dallas and San Diego, and he plays frequently in his home state of Colorado with orchestras, in chamber ensembles and in solo recitals. International performances have included appearances in Australia, Japan, Korea, Abu Dhabi and Europe. Korevaar has performed as soloist with orchestras throughout the United States.
Currently a member of the Boulder Public Library's ensemble-in-residence, the Boulder Piano Quartet (with violinist Claude Sim, violist Martin Sher and cellist Thomas Heinrich), and University of Texas at Dallas's resident Clavier Trio (with violinist Arkady Fomin and cellist Jesus Castro-Balbi), Korevaar has performed as guest artist with the Takács, Manhattan and Colorado Quartets, among other groups. He was a founding member of the Young Concert Artists Award-winning piano and wind ensemble Hexagon, with which he toured for many years.
David Korevaar's most recent CDs are Bach Goldberg Variations (Ivory) and Ricardo Viñes Collection (Koch), both released in 2007. Other recent releases include Beethoven Sonatas No. 28, 16 and 32 (Ivory Classics), Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, Gaspard de la nuit, and Miroirs (MSR Classics) and Brahms Variations for Piano (Ivory Classics). His broad musical interests and extensive repertoire are reflected in his recordings, ranging from the two books of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (Musicians Showcase) to the piano music of Lowell Liebermann, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Koch Classics). He has recorded the romantic virtuoso compositions of Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi (Ivory Classics), and transcriptions (his own and Liszt's) of orchestral music by Franz Liszt, including the rarely heard 2nd Mephisto Waltz (Helicon).
Other releases include the first CD by the Prometheus Quartet featuring music by 19th-Century Frenchmen Saint-Saëns and d'Indy (Centaur), an album of Lowell Liebermann's chamber music with flutist Alexa Still (Koch Classics), the complete sonatas for brass instruments by Paul Hindemith (Kleos), and the Brahms Violin Sonatas with violinist Anastasia Khitruk (Titanic).
David Korevaar's interest in new music is reflected in his programming. In addition to his continuing association with the music of Lowell Liebermann, Korevaar has performed and recorded music by composers including Paul Schoenfield, Mike Barnett, Aaron Jay Kernis, George Rochberg, Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, Stephen Jaffe, Scott Eyerly and Libby Larson. He gave the New York premiere of three of Harrison Birtwistle's Harrison's Clocks as part of the Juilliard School's Piano Century series in 2000. The Clavier Trio will give the world premiere of Robert Xavier Rodriguez's Sor(tri)lege in February 2008 in Dallas, followed by its New York premiere at Weill Hall.
David Korevaar began his piano studies at age six in San Diego with Sherman Storr, and at age 13 he became a student of the great American virtuoso Earl Wild. By age 20 he had earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School, where he continued his studies with Earl Wild and studied composition with David Diamond. He completed his Doctor of Musical Arts from the Juilliard School with Abbey Simon. Another important mentor and teacher was the French pianist Paul Doguereau, who had been a student of Egon Petri, and who had studied the music of Fauré and Debussy with Roger-Ducasse (a pupil of Fauré's), and the music of Ravel with the composer.
Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Colorado in 2000, Korevaar taught for many years at the Westport School of Music in Connecticut, where he was Artist-Teacher. He now lives in Boulder, CO with his family. Mr. Korevaar is a Kawai artist.
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Dear World Traveler....Have a wonderful trip to Central Asia and dazzle everyone there! We send greetings from Victoria, B.C. where we are staying for the month at Gary Karr's home while he is giving recitals in Japan. Does NO ONE stay "home" these days??? :)
Hi David. Of course, I'm not Lowell; just maintaining this profile on his behalf. But, I'm very happy to add you to the friends list. I've had volume 2 of the piano works for a while, but only recently picked up the one with the nocturnes. Some of those pieces are haunting, but very soul-satisfying.
I guess you've already heard the recording of the 8th?
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