DEPARTMENTOFMUSICFACULTYARTISTSERIES

After Beethoven

JAY DeWIRE, PIANO

Sunday September 13, 2020 Pealer Performing Arts Center 3:00 p.m. Pealer Recital Hall

PROGRAM

Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Abegg Variations, Op. 1 Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Barcarolle, Op. 60 Frederick Chopin (1810-1849)

INTERMISSION Sonetto 47 del Petrarca Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Trois études de concert Franz Liszt No. 2 -- 'La leggierezza' Fantasie in C Major, Op. 15 'Wanderer' Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

BIOGRAPHY

JAY DEWIRE, piano, has performed across the United States as a soloist, collaborator, and member of the West Shore Trio. Highlights include two performances as soloist with the Prince George’s Philharmonic, concerts in Chautauqua, Los Angeles and New Mexico. with the West Shore Piano Trio, a performance at the North American Saxophone Alliance in Lubbock,Texas with Dr. Brent Weber and Dr. Mark Gallagher, and the South Carolina

Governor’s School for the Arts with Dr. Mark Gallagher. He teaches piano and history at Frostburg State University.

Dr. DeWire began playing piano at the age of four and gave his first solo recital at age 12. He received a B.A. with High Distinction and a Master of Arts in piano performance from the University of Virginia, and a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory. In December of 2007 he received a D.M.A. from the University of Maryland School of Music (College Park). He has studied with such distinguished pianists as Joanne Haroutounian, Mimi Tung, Gabriel Chodos, Bradford Gowen, Steve Drury, John Moriarty, and Larissa Dedova. He has performed in master classes for Claude Frank, Andre Watts, Ruth Laredo, and Tigran Alikhanov, the Director of the Moscow Conservatory, and appeared in several competitions including: The National Society of Arts and Letters Competition, National Symphony Orchestra Competition, Baldwin Competition, Washington, DC Beethoven Competition (Honorable Mention), and was a finalist in the American Musicological Society (Mid-Atlantic Chapter) Writing Competition. Dr. DeWire has also received numerous prizes including the Brander Wyatt Morrison Prize, and a Dean of Faculty Fellowship (UVa), as well as scholarships at the University of Maryland, New England Conservatory and University of Virginia.