Frederick Moyer
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Frederick Moyer is an American
concert
pianist
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in Philadelphia while in high school, and graduated from Indiana University
.
Moyer has appeared as piano soloist with orchestras including the Cleveland
, Philadelphia
and Minnesota
Orchestras, the St. Louis, Dallas
, Indianapolis
, Milwaukee
, Baltimore
, Pittsburgh
, Houston, Singapore
, Netherlands Radio
, Latvian, Iceland and London Symphony
Orchestras, the Buffalo, Hong Kong and Japan Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestras, the National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil, and the major orchestras of Australia. His 22 recordings on the Biddulph
, GM and JRI labels comprise works by over thirty composers. Composers that have written for him include Louis Calabro
, Donal Fox
, Kenneth Frazelle, Gordon Green
, David Kechley, Ned Rorem
, Andersen Viana and 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker
. Moyer commissioned Walker's Piano Sonata No. 4 and presented it in its first recording in 1986.
On GM Recordings
(With Nancy Green, Cello)
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Schumann, Op. 9; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 8 in B flat Major
On Biddulph
. His CD of Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto was the first commercial recording of a large-scale Romantic work using an orchestra created from sampled sounds. He has written many software programs to aid with practicing, analyzing, recording and performing music. (3) He has also designed software that helps a live soloist to stay synchronized with a recorded accompaniment.
, Herbie Hancock
, Erroll Garner
, and Red Garland
and others. In 2008 Hal Leonard Publications released the book "Jazz Classics" containing six of Moyer’s transcriptions of jazz performances by Vince Guaraldi
, Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, Horace Silver
, and Bill Evans
. This collection includes a play along CD that features members of the Jazz Arts Trio.
United States
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concert
Concert
A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...
pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
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Biography
Moyer first appeared with the Boston Symphony at age 14, performed with The Boston Pops as a teenager, and made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1982. He attended the Curtis Institute of MusicCurtis Institute of Music
The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. According to statistics compiled by U.S...
in Philadelphia while in high school, and graduated from Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
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Moyer has appeared as piano soloist with orchestras including the Cleveland
Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1918, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Severance Hall...
, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...
and Minnesota
Minnesota Orchestra
The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Emil Oberhoffer founded the orchestra as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in 1903, and it gave its first performance on November 5 of that year. In 1968 the orchestra changed to its name to the Minnesota Orchestra...
Orchestras, the St. Louis, Dallas
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra. It performs its concerts in the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States....
, Indianapolis
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is a major American orchestra based in Indianapolis, Indiana.Annually, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performs 200 concerts for over 350,000 people. It is the largest performing arts organization in Indiana. The ISO is currently one of only 18 American...
, Milwaukee
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its primary performing venue is the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts...
, Baltimore
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is a professional American symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland.In September 2007, Maestra Marin Alsop led her inaugural concerts as the Orchestra’s twelfth music director, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra.The BSO Board...
, 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:...
, Houston, Singapore
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
The Singapore Symphony Orchestra is a 96 members professional symphony orchestra. Its main performing venue is the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore although it has also toured widely in Asia, Europe and the United States...
, Netherlands Radio
Netherlands Radio Symphony
The Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra was a Dutch radio orchestra. It was founded in 1985 after a merger of the Promenade Orchestra and the Radio Orchestra ....
, Latvian, Iceland and London Symphony
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
Orchestras, the Buffalo, Hong Kong and Japan Philharmonic Symphony
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
The , is an orchestra based in Tokyo, Japan.-History:The Japan Philharmonic Orchestra was founded on June 22, 1956, as the exclusive subsidiary orchestra under the Nippon Cultural Broadcasting. Akeo Watanabe served the first Chief conductor of the orchestra...
Orchestras, the National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil, and the major orchestras of Australia. His 22 recordings on the Biddulph
Biddulph Recordings
Biddulph Recordings is a small record label based in Devon, England, specializing in classical music, especially by string instrument players. The label was founded in 1989 by Peter Biddulph, a violin dealer, and Eric Wen, a violinist and music writer....
, GM and JRI labels comprise works by over thirty composers. Composers that have written for him include Louis Calabro
Louis Calabro
Louis Calabro, was an Italian American orchestral composer.Calabro studied piano and composition at Juilliard School of Music. Vincent Persichetti was his principal teacher there....
, Donal Fox
Donal Fox
Donal Fox is an American composer, pianist and improviser in the jazz and classical genres. He has received several awards, including a 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition and a 1998 Fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation. He has also been nominated for the CalArts/Alpert Awards in...
, Kenneth Frazelle, Gordon Green
Gordon Green
Gordon Green was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League .Green made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in round 5 of the 1911 season. He last played in the 1921 Grand Final between Carlton and Richmond before retiring.-External links:* at...
, David Kechley, Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...
, Andersen Viana and 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker
George Walker
George Walker may refer to:In arts and letters:*George Walker *George Walker , English chess player and writer*George Walker , American composer...
. Moyer commissioned Walker's Piano Sonata No. 4 and presented it in its first recording in 1986.
Discography
On JRI Recordings- J124 - Tribute with Peter Tillotson, Bass and Peter Fraenkel, Drums
- J122 - Edward MacDowellEdward MacDowellEdward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose"...
& Clara SchumannClara SchumannClara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
: Two Piano Concerti; Edward MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 23 with the Plovdiv Philharmonic OrchestraPlovdiv Philharmonic OrchestraThe Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra is a Bulgarian orchestra whose origins date back to 1945. It is rooted in the hundred-year-old orchestral traditions of the largest cultural center of Thrace.-Recordings:...
(Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Nayden TodorovNayden TodorovNayden Todorov is a Bulgarian conductor.- Positions :*Plovdiv Youth Orchestra *Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra *Sofia Festival Orchestra...
, Conductor (Used with permission from Music Minus OneMusic Minus OneMusic Minus One is a company that produces sheet music that comes with compact discs where the work is recorded without the soloist part . This can be used for practice. There is also a second version on the CD, where the tempo is 20% reduced...
); Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7, MIDI orchestra created by Dan Kury, William Rounds, Solo Cello
- J121 - Vienna Revisited
- J120 - Cello Works of ArenskyAnton ArenskyAnton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine...
and RachmaninoffSergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
with Nancy Green, Cello
- J117 - Brahms/PiattiCarlo Alfredo PiattiCarlo Alfredo Piatti was an Italian cellist. He was born at via Borgo Canale, in Bergamo and died in Mozzo, 4 miles from Bergamo....
, Hungarian Dances with Nancy Green, Cello
- J116 - Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
: Die Schöne MüllerinDie schöne MüllerinDie schöne Müllerin , is a song cycle by Franz Schubert on poems by Wilhelm Müller. It is the earliest extended song cycle to be widely performed. The work is considered one of Schubert's most important, and it is widely performed and recorded....
with Benjamin LuxonBenjamin LuxonBenjamin Matthew Luxon CBE is a retired British baritone.-Biography:He studied with Walter Grünner at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and established an international reputation as a singer when he won a third prize at the 1961 ARD International Music Competition in Munich...
, Baritone
- J114 - Richard StraussRichard StraussRichard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
- Enoch ArdenEnoch Arden (Strauss)Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV. 181, is a melodrama for narrator and piano, written in 1897 by Richard Strauss to the words of the 1864 poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.-History:...
with Benjamin Luxon, Speaker
- J113 - ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
- J111 - Johannes Brahms - Two Sonatas for Piano and Cello(with Nancy Green, Cello)
- J109 - American Journeys with the London Symphony OrchestraLondon Symphony OrchestraThe London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
, Gisèle Ben-Dor, Conductor, Christine Michelle Smith, Flutist
- J108 - Camargo GuarnieriCamargo GuarnieriMozart Camargo Guarnieri was a Brazilian composer.-Name:He was registered at birth as Mozart Guarnieri, but when he began a musical career, he decided his first name was too pretentious and subject to puns. Thus he adopted his mother's maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed...
- The Twenty Estudos
- J107 - Rhapsody in BlueRhapsody in BlueRhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects....
, etc.
- J106 - Rachmaninoff Piano Works
- J105 - Frederick Moyer in Performance
- J104 - Of Old and New: A grandfather's tale
- J103 - Beethoven Piano Sonatas
- J102 - Green/Moyer Cello Recital, with Nancy Green, Cello
- J101 - Preludes, Fugues and Variations
On GM Recordings
- GM2024 - MendelssohnFelix MendelssohnJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
: Seven pieces in the form of a suite, MussorgskyModest MussorgskyModest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
: Pictures at an ExhibitionPictures at an ExhibitionPictures at an Exhibition is a suite in ten movements composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists...
- GM2016 - RegerMax RegerJohann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
: Four Studies for the Left Hand; RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
: Valses nobles et sentimentales; George WalkerGeorge WalkerGeorge Walker may refer to:In arts and letters:*George Walker *George Walker , English chess player and writer*George Walker , American composer...
: Sonata No.4 (1985); LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
/Busoni: Three Paganini Etudes
(With Nancy Green, Cello)
- GM2012 - Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Piano and Cello, Op. 19, Tchaikovsky: Pezzo Capriccioso
- GM2011 - Three Centuries Live; Haydn: Sonata No. 9 in F Major
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Schumann, Op. 9; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 8 in B flat Major
- GM2005 - Debut Recording: BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
: Partita No. 5 in G Major; Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
On Biddulph
- LAW024 - Mario Castelnuovo-TedescoMario Castelnuovo-TedescoMario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he migrated to the United States and became a film composer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next...
Complete works for Cello & Piano:Toccata, Sonata, Scherzino, I Nottambuli (Variazioni fantastiche), Notturna Sull'Acqua, Valse on the Name of Gregor Piatigorsky, Paraphrase on Rossini's “Barber of Seville”, with Nancy Green, cello
Technology
Moyer is the first pianist to make a commercial recording using the Bosendorfer 290 SE Recording PianoBösendorfer
Bösendorfer is an Austrian piano manufacturer, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha. The brand is known for producing pianos with a uniquely rich, singing, and sustaining tone...
. His CD of Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto was the first commercial recording of a large-scale Romantic work using an orchestra created from sampled sounds. He has written many software programs to aid with practicing, analyzing, recording and performing music. (3) He has also designed software that helps a live soloist to stay synchronized with a recorded accompaniment.
Robert Schumann Fourth Piano Sonata
With the collaboration of electrical engineer and uncle Dr. Paul Green, Moyer unearthed the unfinished manuscript of a Fourth Piano Sonata by composer Robert Schumann. They have created a performable edition of the work, as well as “a very impressive download application that lets you follow, on the same page, both Schumann's original and the newly printed version, while listening to Moyer play the music (each measure is highlighted in sync with the playing).”Jazz Arts Trio
Frederick Moyer is the founding member of the Jazz Arts Trio, which includes his childhood friends bassist Peter Tillotson and drummer Peter Fraenkel. This ensemble performs and reinterprets transcriptions of recorded performances by piano trios led by Oscar PetersonOscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
, Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
, Erroll Garner
Erroll Garner
Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a jazz standard...
, and Red Garland
Red Garland
William "Red" Garland was an American hard bop jazz pianist whose block chord style, in part originated by Milt Buckner, influenced many forthcoming pianists in the jazz idiom.-Beginnings:...
and others. In 2008 Hal Leonard Publications released the book "Jazz Classics" containing six of Moyer’s transcriptions of jazz performances by Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi
Vincent Anthony "Vince" Guaraldi was an Italian American jazz musician and pianist noted for his innovative compositions and arrangements and for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip...
, Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, Horace Silver
Horace Silver
Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....
, and Bill Evans
Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...
. This collection includes a play along CD that features members of the Jazz Arts Trio.