Geoffrey Burleson
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Geoffrey Burleson is an American
classical and jazz pianist.
Geoffrey Burleson began his solo career with a recital in Merkin Concert Hall in New York City in 2000. He has since performed as a soloist with Boston Musica Viv, the Arlington Philharmonic, the New England Philharmonic and the Holland Symfonia. He is currently principal pianist with the New York Art Ensemble and Boston Musica Viva, as well as the IMPETUS trio. Burleson has given premieres of a number of new works, including pieces by Gunther Schuller, Vivian Fine, William Kraft, David Rakowski, Lior Navok, Hayes Biggs, Barbara White, Jeffrey Stadelman, Jason Eckardt, Evan Johnson, and others.
Burleson has made a number of recordings, including a disc of music by Roy Harris
, a set of Vincent Persichetti
's complete piano sonatas, and has begun a four-disc series of Camille Saint-Saëns
: Complete Works for Solo Piano, which will appear on the Naxos
label.
Geoffrey Burleson teaches piano at Princeton University
, and is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Piano Studies at Hunter College
of The City University of New York.
United States
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classical and jazz pianist.
Biography and career
Geoffrey Burleson studied at the Peabody Conservatory, New England Conservatory, and Stony Brook University, and his teachers include Gilbert Kalish, Leonard Shure, Veronica Jochum, Lillian Freundlich, Tinka Knopf, and Audrey Bart Brown. He has received awards from the International Piano Recording Competition (Silver Medal), the Vienna Modern Masters International Performers’ Competition, and was the recipient of a DAAD Grant from the German government to support a residency at the Academy of Arts in Berlin.Geoffrey Burleson began his solo career with a recital in Merkin Concert Hall in New York City in 2000. He has since performed as a soloist with Boston Musica Viv, the Arlington Philharmonic, the New England Philharmonic and the Holland Symfonia. He is currently principal pianist with the New York Art Ensemble and Boston Musica Viva, as well as the IMPETUS trio. Burleson has given premieres of a number of new works, including pieces by Gunther Schuller, Vivian Fine, William Kraft, David Rakowski, Lior Navok, Hayes Biggs, Barbara White, Jeffrey Stadelman, Jason Eckardt, Evan Johnson, and others.
Burleson has made a number of recordings, including a disc of music by Roy Harris
Roy Harris
Roy Ellsworth Harris , was an American composer. He wrote much music on American subjects, becoming best known for his Symphony No...
, a set of Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...
's complete piano sonatas, and has begun a four-disc series of Camille Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
: Complete Works for Solo Piano, which will appear on the Naxos
Naxos Records
Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...
label.
Geoffrey Burleson teaches piano at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, and is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Piano Studies at Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
of The City University of New York.