Spencer Myer, associate professor of music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, leads a master class with UW piano students.
Biography
Lauded for “superb playing” and “poised, alert musicianship” by the Boston Globe, and labeled “definitely a man to watch” by London’s The Independent after his 2012 Wigmore Hall recital debut, American pianist SPENCER MYER is one of the most respected and sought-after artists on today’s concert stage.
He has been soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Cape Town and Johannesburg Philharmonics, and the Indianapolis and New Haven Symphonies, among others. His 2005 tour of South Africa included a performance of Beethoven’s five piano concerti with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, followed by six subsequent return tours. An in-demand chamber musician, his artistic partners have included cellists Lynn Harrell and Ralph Kirshbaum, clarinetist David Shifrin, soprano Nicole Cabell, and the Jupiter, Miami and Pacifica String Quartets.
His career was launched with three important prizes: First Prize in the 2004 UNISA International Piano Competition in South Africa, the 2006 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship from the American Pianists Association and the Gold Medal from the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition. He is also a laureate of the 2005 Cleveland and Busoni International Competitions. He was a member of Astral Artists’ performance roster from 2003-2010.
Previously on the piano faculty of Boston’s Longy School of Music, Spencer Myer is currently Associate Professor of Piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he received the 2024 Trustees Teaching Award. He has released six CDs on the Steinway & Sons label — Piano Rags of William Bolcom, four discs with cellist Brian Thornton, and the Four Chopin Impromptus.
Spencer Myer is a Steinway Artist.