Published: March 28, 2018
First-Class Pianist Frederick Moyer to Give Recital at UT March 30
On Friday, March 30, The University of Tampa will welcome pianist Frederick Moyer — hailed by The New York Times as “first-class” and The Milwaukee Journal as “a superstar pianist” — for a guest recital. The concert, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Plant Hall Grand Salon.
The program for the performance will include works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Oscar Peterson.
During more than 30 years as a full-time concert pianist, Moyer has established a musical career that has taken him to 43 countries and to such far-flung venues as Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Sydney Opera House, Windsor Castle (U.K.), Carnegie Recital Hall, Tanglewood (MA) and the Kennedy Center. His 22 recordings on the Biddulph, GM and JRI labels comprise works by more than 30 composers.
Moyer first appeared with the Boston Symphony at age 14, performed with The Boston Pops as a teenager and made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1982. He has also 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.
For more information about the event, contact Grigorios Zamparas, associate professor of music and director of piano studies, at (813) 257-3376 or gzamparas@ut.edu.
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