David Deveau is an American

United States

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 classical

Classical music

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 pianist

Pianist

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. Born in Concord, Massachusetts

Concord, Massachusetts

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, he has appeared as soloist with the Boston Symphony

Boston Symphony Orchestra

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 and Boston Pops Orchestra

Boston Pops Orchestra

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s, the San Francisco, Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The orchestra's home is Heinz Hall, located in Pittsburgh's Cultural District.-History:...

, St. Louis, Minnesota, Houston

Houston Symphony Orchestra

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, Miami, Pacific and Portland Symphony Orchestra

Portland Symphony Orchestra

The Portland Symphony Orchestra, established in 1923 in Portland, Maine, is a fully professional symphony that is recognized as being one of the top orchestras of its size in the country. The orchestra performs a wide variety of concerts, frequently featuring guest artists, at the Merrill...

s, and many regional orchestras in the United States and abroad. He made his New York debut in 1982 at Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

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's Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall

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, and has performed solo and chamber music recitals at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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, Merkin Hall and The Town Hall

The Town Hall

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; the Kennedy Center

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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 in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, and Benaroya Hall

Benaroya Hall

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 in Seattle

Seattle, Washington

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. He made his debut solo tour of China

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 in 2004-5. He is Artistic Director of Rockport Music

Rockport Music

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 (Massachusetts), and serves on the music faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Biography

Now in his fourteenth year as Artistic Director of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, David Deveau has been critically acclaimed internationally for his expressive and poetic interpretations of solo piano repertoire ranging from Haydn to the present. He has been heard on four continents in recital, concerti and chamber music, and in recent years has presented the world premieres of works of John Harbison

John Harbison

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, Peter Child

Peter Child

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 and other significant American composers.

As a performer, Mr. Deveau has earned enthusiastic praise from major publications including the New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

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, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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, Minneapolis Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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, New Orleans Times-Picayune

New Orleans Times-Picayune

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, Le Figaro

Le Figaro

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(Paris), and China Daily

China Daily

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(Beijing).

His major orchestral engagements over the last three decades include performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Boston Symphony Orchestra

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 (Haitink, Knussen), San Francisco Symphony

San Francisco Symphony

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 (Blomstedt), Minnesota Orchestra

Minnesota Orchestra

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 (Silverstein), as well as the Houston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Miami Symphony Orchestras; the Pacific Symphony

Pacific Symphony

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 (California), Portland, and many others. In Boston, where he resides, he has appeared on many occasions as soloist with the Boston Pops (Lockhart, Williams), as soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society

Handel and Haydn Society

The Handel and Haydn Society is an American chorus and period instrument orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1815, it remains one of the oldest performing arts organizations in the United States.-Early history:...

, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Indian Hill, the Boston Philharmonic

Boston Philharmonic

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra is a semi-professional orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1979....

, Civic Symphony of Boston, New Philharmonia, and the Newton Symphony. Abroad, he has appeared as soloist with the Qingdao (China) Symphony, L’Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse (France) and many other regional and metropolitan orchestras.

In solo recital, David Deveau made his critically acclaimed New York debut at Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall

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 in Lincoln Center in 1982 as the recipient of the prestigious Solo Recitalist Award from the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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. Prior to this, in 1978, he was winner of the Concert Artists Guild Award (in chamber music) which resulted in his chamber music debut at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

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. He has since performed frequently in New York at Town Hall, Merkin Hall, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, and Lincoln Center. Around the nation, he has appeared in recital at the Kennedy Center and Dumbarton Oaks

Dumbarton Oaks

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 in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, San Francisco’s Herbst Theater, Seattle’s Benaroya Hall

Benaroya Hall

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, Minneapolis’s Orchestra Hall, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, the Troy, New York

Troy, New York

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 Savings Bank Hall, Atlanta’s Spivey Hall

Spivey Hall

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, and myriad other series throughout the US and Canada

Canada

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. Internationally, Mr. Deveau made his debut concert tour of mainland China

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 in early 2005, where he performed a New Year’s solo recital in Beijing

Beijing

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 at the Zhong Shan Music Hall in the Forbidden City

Forbidden City

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, and the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in Qingdao

Qingdao

' also known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city with a population of over 8.715 million in eastern Shandong province, Eastern China. Its built up area, made of 7 urban districts plus Jimo city, is home to about 4,346,000 inhabitants in 2010.It borders Yantai to the...

. Both performances were broadcast on China Central Television

China Central Television

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, and were featured on nationally televised morning news programs. He has also performed as soloist and chamber musician in England

England

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, Scotland

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, France

France

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 and Germany

Germany

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. On January 14, 2006, he was presented in a solo concert by the Bank of America Celebrity Series to great critical acclaim.

Mr. Deveau has performed with members of the Juilliard

Juilliard String Quartet

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, Shanghai

Shanghai Quartet

The Shanghai Quartet a string quartet that formed in 1983. The quartet is made up of four members: first violinist Weigang Li, second violinist Yi-Wen Jiang, violist Honggang Li, and cellist Nicholas Tzavaras. The group’s tours have included North America, South America, Japan, China, Australia,...

, Borromeo

Borromeo String Quartet

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, Muir, Ying, Kronos

Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Joan...

, Orion

Orion String Quartet

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 and St. Lawrence

St. Lawrence Quartet

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 string quartets, the Diaz and Jacques Thibaud string trios, and has been a guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society

Boston Chamber Music Society

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 on several occasions. Much in demand at summer music festivals, he has appeared in concert at Tanglewood

Tanglewood Music Festival

The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts....

, Caramoor

Caramoor International Music Festival

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, Wolf Trap

Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts

Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, known locally in the Washington, D.C. area as simply Wolf Trap, is a performing arts center located on 130 acres of national park land in Wolf Trap, Virginia...

, Mainly Mozart

Mainly Mozart Festival

Mainly Mozart is a 5013 non-profit based in San Diego, California, and is an internationally renowned presenter of world-class musicians from some of the nation’s most celebrated orchestras....

 (San Diego), Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains (Colorado), the Montana Music Festival, the Viennese Sommerfest of the Minnesota Orchestra

Minnesota Orchestra

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, the Kitchener

Kitchener, Ontario

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-Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario

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 (Ontario) concert society, Olympic Music Festival (Washington) and Bay Chamber Concerts

Bay Chamber Concerts

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 in Maine

Maine

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. He is pianist of SONOS, a piano quartet based in Boston. As a collaborative artist, he tours annually with clarinet virtuoso Richard Stoltzman

Richard Stoltzman

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, and has often collaborated with such noted artists as flutist Carol Wincenc, violinists Andres Cardenes, Leonidas Kavakos

Leonidas Kavakos

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, Joseph Silverstein

Joseph Silverstein

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, and Joel Smirnoff.

A music-faculty member at MIT since 1988, Mr. Deveau was himself a student of Veronica Jochum and Russell Sherman

Russell Sherman

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 at the New England Conservatory, and of Beveridge Webster

Beveridge Webster

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 at the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

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. He studied with the late Gaby Casadesus

Gaby Casadesus

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 at L’Academie Internationale de Musique: Maurice Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Saint-Jean-de-Luz

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, France. He has also coached with pianist Richard Goode

Richard Goode

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. Mr. Deveau has given master classes throughout North America and abroad, most recently in Qingdao for the National Piano Teachers of China Association, for the New England Piano Teachers Association, and at Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

.

Mr. Deveau is heard internationally on PRI

Public Radio International

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, as well as on the BBC

BBC

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, CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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, NPR

NPR

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, and on commercially available recordings on Albany Records (Peter Child)Centaur

Centaur Records

Centaur Records is one of the oldest and largest independent classical labels in America. The company is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was founded in 1976. Their recordings are available in major markets throughout the world, and their catalog includes classical, historical, pops,...

(Liszt) and EcoClassics (Schumann).

From MIT Faculty Page

David Deveau Senior Lecturer in Music. M.M., Juilliard School of Music. Acclaimed NYC debut at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, 1982 as the recipient of a coveted Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Deveau has performed extensively throughout North America, appearing as guest soloist with the Boston, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston and St. Louis Symphonies, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Miami and Portland Symphonies, and abroad with l'Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, France and the Qingdao Symphony in China. Among the conductors with whom Deveau has collaborated are Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, John Williams, Keith Lockhart and Joseph Silverstien. Solo and chamber music appearances throughout the US, Canada, Europe and China, including appearances on major concert series at Carnegie, Alice Tully, Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC; Washington's Kennedy Center; Benaroya Hall in Seattle; Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, and Zhong Shan Hall in Beijing. Chamber music with members of the Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Ying, Vermeer, Shanghai, Borromeo and many other string quartets. Festival and series appearances at Tanglewood, Caramoor, Wolf Trap, La Jolla Music Society, Prussia Cove (UK), Mainly Mozart (San Diego), and Sommerfest, Minneapolis. Artistic Director of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival since 1995. Piano and chamber music Masterclasses at Harvard, Dartmouth, NEC, San Francisco Conservatory, Longy School of Music, Carnegie Mellon University, and many other colleges and conservatories. World premieres of music by MIT's John Harbison and Peter Child, and many other composers. Recordings for BBC, CBC, NPR, CCTV, Beijing and Centaur. In 2006, Deveau's performance on the Celebrity Series of Boston received rave reviews in the three major Boston newspapers, and was named one of the ten best classical concerts of the year by the Boston Phoenix.

External links

• Hear David Deveau in concert from WGBH Boston