Professor of piano at Hunter College/City University of New York, Geoffrey Burleson will perform a solo recital at IUP on Monday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall, second floor of Sutton Hall. Admission is free.
Burleson will present a varied program of works for piano and piano/electronics. One of his research areas is the solo piano works of Camille Saint-Saëns, and he will perform selections from Album, Op. 72, and a concert paraphrase of Massanet’s Opera Thaïs. He will also perform works by Gabriel Fauré, Julia Perry, David Chaillou, Charles Ives, and Wayne Shorter, and will finish the program with two of Neil Rolnick’s “Lockdown Fantasies” for piano and electronics.
Equally active as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, and jazz performer, Burleson has performed to wide acclaim throughout Europe and North America. Current recording projects include Camille Saint-Saëns: Complete Piano Works, on six CDs, for the Naxos Grand Piano label. The first five volumes have been released to high acclaim from Gramophone, International Record Review, Diapason (France), and elsewhere. Burleson’s concerto appearances include the Buffalo Philharmonic, New England Philharmonic, Boston Musica Viva, and the Holland Symfonia in the Netherlands.
Burleson teaches piano at Princeton University and is professor/director of piano studies at Hunter College-CUNY.