Artist description Concert pianist

Music Style Classical

Musical Influences Beethoven, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Oscar Peterson, Peter Nero

Artist History Bryan Verhoye began formal piano lessons at the age of five, and continued his musical training at the University of Southern California School of Music, the Aspen Music School, and The Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. His teachers have included Malcolm Hamilton, Daniel Pollack, Ann Schein and William Doppmann. In addition to being a four-time prizewinner of the Musical Merit Foundation of San Diego auditions, Bryan won first prize for Contemporary Music in the Young Artist Division of the International Piano Recording Competition, and first prize in the Carmel Music Society's Piano Competition. He later returned to Carmel to perform a solo recital on their music series, and his performance from that recital of Stravinsky's "Three Movements from Petrouchka" was broadcast on National Public Radio's syndicated Performance Today program. Bryan has been featured several times with the San Diego Symphony: on their "French Connection" Light Bulb series concert in a performance from Ravel's Concerto in G, in the Summer Pops "Gershwin" concert, and in a jazz piano trio for the Symphony's Holiday Pops concert. He has performed for the educational outreach programs of both the San Diego Chamber Orchestra and Mainly Mozart. Bryan is a p u blished composer and arranger; currently he is also the accompanist for the San Diego Master Chorale, and Music Associate at Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church. Throughout his career, Bryan has collaborated with numerous singers and instrumentalists in classical, jazz, pop, and studio recording settings, and he appears frequently as a solo recitalist, accompanist, and chamber music performer in San Diego and throughout the West Coast.

Instruments Piano

Press Reviews "...There was an air of spontaneity about this performance that made it special and brilliant" San Diego Union Tribune "...a recital as accomplished as it was ambitious... Schubert's A Minor Sonata was given an impeccably nuanced reading, and Chopin's monumental Sonata No. 3 was performed with breathtaking technique." San Diego Union Tribune "...Verhoye delivered with unrelenting drive Samuel Barber's craggy Sonata and Ravel's demanding "Gaspard de la Nuit"... Barber's athletic fugue sparkled under Verhoye's command, and the 'Scarbo' in Ravel's 'Gaspard' pulsed with demonic energy." Los Angeles Times "Mr. Verhoye's playing demonstrated numerous virtues: an accomplished technique, a high degree of power and of lyricism when required...a compellingly idiomatic performance of great integrity." San Diego Reader

Location San Diego, CA - USA

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