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Posted: March 25, 2025

Hailed for his “wonderfully warm, pliant, spontaneous playing” by the Washington Post, award winning pianist David Korevaar is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborator. Korevaar has performed and given master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. Korevaar’s active career includes solo performances with the Rochester Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Japan’s Shonan Chamber Orchestra, Brazil’s Goiania Symphony, and with acclaimed conductors Guillermo Figueroa, Per Brevig, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Jorge Mester. His performance of John Cage’s Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Paul Zukofsky was praised by the New York Times “as admirably projected in the devoted and lovely performance of David Korevaar.”  David was honored to work with Cage to prepare the concerto.

Recent and upcoming performances include The Goldberg Variations for the Boulder Bach Festival, performances at Rocky Ridge Music Center, concerts with the Boulder Piano Quartet, recitals in Texas, Kansas, New Jersey, California, and Oregon, and as the soloist in Colorado Ballet’s production of the Lady of the Camellias featuring Chopin’s music for piano and orchestra as well as their production of George Balanchine’s Rubies.

A passionate and committed collaborator, Korevaar is a founding member of the Boulder Piano Quartet, currently in residence at The Academy in Boulder, for which he curates a chamber music series. He performs regularly with the Takács Quartet and recently appeared with them on the Great Performers Series at New York’s Lincoln Center.  Korevaar has performed and recorded with distinguished colleagues including the New York Philharmonic Ensembles, violinists Anne Akiko Myers, Vadim Gluzman, Chee-Yun, Harumi Rhodes, Edward Dusinberre, Andrea Segar, Alex Gonzalez, Emi Ohi Resnick, Philip Quint, and the late Charles Wetherbee, violists Geraldine Walther and Matthew Dane, cellists David Requiro, Jesús Castro-Balbi, Meta Weiss and Peter Wyrick, flutists Alexa Still and Christina Jennings, baritone Andrew Garland, mezzo-soprano Abigail Nims, and the Carpe Diem, Shanghai, Manhattan, and Colorado Quartets.  He was a founding member of the Prometheus Piano Quartet, and was a long-time member of the Clavier Trio whose artistry was recognized as “exceptional, impressive, fresh and inspired.” Korevaar has appeared on some of the country’s most distinguished chamber music series at Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, Spivey Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the Gardner Museum, the Krannert Center, the Ordway Theater, Kennedy Center, Davies Symphony Hall and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society, among others.

Korevaar’s most recent addition to his extensive discography of over 50 titles is the highly anticipated release of Beethoven’s monumental cycle of piano sonatas on Prospero Classical. His acclaimed album of world premiere recordings of piano music by the largely forgotten Italian impressionist composer Luigi Perrachio was released in the fall of 2018. “Perrachio’s works require a pianist with virtuosic technique and an artist’s sensitivity for producing a wide spectrum of tone color. David Korevaar is the right pianist for these pieces” wrote American Record Guide. Last fall saw the release of the Quintets of Perrachio and Castelnuovo-Tedesco with the Carpe Diem String Quartet for the Da Vinci Classics label. With violinist Charles Wetherbee, he has recorded works by Iranian American composer Reza Vali which received Iran’s Bârbad Award, and discs for Naxos of the three violin sonatas by Russian/German composer Paul Juon and world premiere recordings of music for violin and piano by Hungarian-born Parisian composer Tibor Harsányi. Other releases include the third volume of Lowell Liebermann’s piano music, a compelling Chopin recital, and sonatas by Schubert.

Korevaar is well-known for his Bach recordings, including the Six Partitas, Goldberg Variations, and the two books of the Well-Tempered Clavier – recognized as a Critic’s Choice by American Record Guide. Along with recordings of music by Beethoven, Brahms, Fauré, and Ravel, he has recorded 3 discs dedicated to the solo and chamber music of Paul Hindemith, solo piano music by Ravel and Ernst von Dohnányi, and rarely heard treasures by French composers Louis Aubert and Jean Roger-Ducasse from the University of Colorado’s Ricardo Viñes Piano Music Collection. His long association with the American composer Lowell Liebermann has resulted in five recordings to date, including three collections of solo piano music, an album with flutist Alexa Still, and a chamber music compilation with clarinetist Jon Manasse, members of the Boulder Piano Quartet, and baritone Patrick Mason.

Dedicated to championing the works of contemporary composers, Korevaar has performed and recorded works by Lera Auerbach, David Carlson, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Paul Schoenfield, Aaron Jay Kernis, George Rochberg, George Crumb, Stephen Jaffe, and performed the New York premiere of Harrison’s Clocks by Harrison Birtwistle. He regularly performs works by University of Colorado colleagues Michael Theodore, Mike Barnett, and Carter Pann, as well as works by aspiring and established composers in his mission to inspire future generations.

Korevaar’s honors include the Richard French award from the Juilliard School, honoring his doctoral document on Ravel’s Miroirs, top prizes from the University of Maryland William Kapell International Piano Competition and the Peabody-Mason Foundation, as well as the prize for best performance of French music at the Robert Casadesus International Competition. He was also a winner of Young Concert Artists as a member of the group Hexagon
 

FROM THE Lincoln County Leader…..Award-winning pianist David Korevaar will appear this Saturday and Sunday with the Newport Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Adam Flatt. The program, “Magnificent Beethoven, Majestic Prokofiev,” features Korevaar performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37. The concert also includes Wojciech’s Kilar Orawa and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5. Performances are Saturday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 23, at 2 p.m. Saturday’s performance has a pre-concert talk by Flatt at 6:45 p.m. Following each concert, the NSO features a special complimentary “Wine Down,” featuring select wines from the Flying Dutchman Winery of Otter Rock, plus an array of food items. Stay and mingle with orchestra members.

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