Frederick Moyer In Concert

Classical pianist Frederick Moyer visits the Cheshire Public Library for our February Sunday Showcase Concert.

During over thirty years as a full-time concert pianist, Frederick
Moyer has established a vital musical career that has taken him to
forty-three countries and to such far-flung venues as Suntory Hall in
Tokyo, Sydney Opera House, Windsor Castle, Carnegie Recital Hall,
Tanglewood, and the Kennedy Center. He has appeared as piano soloist
with most of the major orchestras of the United States as well as many
orchestras of Europe, Asia, South America, Africa and Australia.

Moyer's far-reaching interests have allowed him to contribute to
classical music in unique ways. An avid computer programmer, he often
incorporates technology into his concerts. As a member of the Jazz Arts
Trio, he performs note-for-note transcriptions of such jazz pianists as
Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and Erroll Garner, bringing this great
American music onto classical music stages. In July, 2009, Dr. Paul
Green and he unveiled an unfinished piano sonata by Robert Schumann, a
find that was widely reported in the national news media.

In 1992, Moyer started JRI Recordings, which has since produced CDs
by numerous world-class musicians. His many recordings on this and other
labels comprise works by over thirty composers and reflect an affinity
for a wide variety of styles. 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. His Mussorgsky/Mendelssohn CD
was the first using the the Bosendorfer 290 SE Recording Piano. Other
recordings include David Ott's Second Piano Concerto with the London
Symphony which was written for Moyer. Many other composers have written
for Moyer including Pulitzer Prize winners George Walker and Ned Rorem,
and Donal Fox whose Etudes of 2002-2006 were written under a grant from
the Guggenheim Foundation.

Copies of Moyer's cds will be available for purchase at $15 each. Visit www.cheshirelibrary.org for more information.