Past performances include recitals in numerous major halls of New York, as well as abroad at the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Euro Arts Music Festival (Leipzig), Leeds Clothworkers Hall (UK), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and IBK Chamber Hall of Seoul Arts Center. Returning to the United States, in Chicago he appeared in recital broadcast on WFMT’s Impromptus radio program, performed the featured solo recital at the 2017 National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy, and was a Fellow of Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute. Petersen embark on a six-recital tour of the Czech Republic. Also on the recording are works by Charles Griffes and Charles Ives. The CD explores 20th- and 21st-century American piano music and features the monumental piano sonatas of Samuel Barber and Elliott Carter, and the world premiere recording of Judith Lang Zaimont's suite Attars. Petersen's spring 2018 debut album for the Steinway & Sons record label. Petersen appears at the Cleveland International Piano Competition to give a solo recital. Following an eight-city US recital tour that includes performances for California's InConcert Sierra, Indiana's Purdue University Convocations New York's The University Club of New York, Shelter Island Friends of Music and the Parrish Art Museum and Florida's Chopin Foundation of the United States and St. Petersen's debut with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, performances with the symphony orchestras of Anderson (IN), Butler (PA), and Carmel (IN), and solo recitals at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, University of Indianapolis, and Dame Myra Hess Concerts (Chicago), highlights of the second half of Petersen's 2017-18 season include his debut with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and performances with the Adelphi Orchestra (NJ), University of Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players (NYC). Winner of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 2017 American Pianists Awards and the Christel DeHaan Fellow of the American Pianists Association, and also Artist-In-Residence at the University of Indianapolis, he has been praised for his commanding and poetic performances of repertoire ranging from Bach to Zaimont.įollowing a fall 2017 that included Mr. At 14, he won a national Canadian music competition and left school to become a professional musician.Acclaimed 24-year-old American pianist Drew Petersen is a sought-after soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He responded to the fear by learning how to play like Tatum, and like everyone else he admired, while adding his own melodic twists to standards and originals. Duke Ellington and Art Tatum, who frightened me to death with his technique.”ĭespite his own prodigious talent, Peterson found Tatum “intimidating,” he told Count Basie in a 1980 interview. “My older brother Fred, who was actually a better pianist than I was, started playing various new tunes - well they were new for me, anyway…. “I only first really heard jazz somewhere between the ages of seven and 10,” said the Canadian jazz great. Peterson was introduced to Bach and Beethoven by his musician father and older sister Daisy, then drilled in rigorous finger exercises and given six hours a day of practice by his teacher, Hungarian pianist Paul de Marky. Duke Ellington once called Oscar Peterson the “Maharaja of the Keyboard” for his virtuosity and ability to play any style with seeming ease, a skill he first began to learn as a classically trained child prodigy.
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