David Deveau

Pianist David Deveau has toured widely, making appearances in China and Japan as well as the U.S. and Europe. He has also had important careers as an educator and as a festival administrator. Deveau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1953. His teachers included Russell Sherman, Beveridge Webster, Veronica Jochum, Richard Goode, and Gaby Casadesus. Deveau earned a master's degree from the Juilliard School in New York. He made his recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in New York in 1982 and developed his career with help from a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant. Education has been a major part of Deveau's career from the beginning; in 1988, he joined the Music, Theatre, & Arts faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a lecturer; rising to Senior Lecturer before his retirement in 2020, he taught hundreds of piano and chamber music students, and he has continued his affiliation with the school after retiring. He has also given master classes, including some in China. In 1992, Deveau made his recording debut on the Centaur label with the album David Deveau Plays Liszt. Deveau has appeared around North America, Europe, and East Asia as a concerto soloist, chamber music player, and recitalist. He has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and the Qingdao Symphony, among many others. His experience as a chamber music player is wide; he has appeared with the Juilliard String Quartet and the Kronos Quartet and has accompanied a range of instrumental soloists, including violinist Joseph Silverstein and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, with whom he has toured in Japan. From 1995 to 2017, Deveau was artistic director of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Maine. Signed to the Steinway & Sons label, Deveau released the album Siegfried Idyll in 2015, featuring a piano transcription of Wagner's orchestral work. He has issued several more albums for Steinway & Sons, including Schubert: Sonatas D. 959 & D. 960 in 2022.
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