The Lenoir-Rhyne University Friends of Music Concert Series will present Frederick Moyer, a classical pianist, in a free, public concert at 8 p.m. Friday.
The concert will be held in LRU's P.E. Monroe Auditorium at 775 Sixth St., NE. Moyer performs a range of classical music masterpieces, as well as some pieces that may be less familiar. His programs often feature works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven and others. Moyer engages the audience throughout the concert with entertaining and informative comments on the music.
Moyer has been a full-time concert pianist for 25 years. His musical career has taken him to 41 countries. He has performed in venues ranging from Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Sydney Opera House, Windsor Castle, Carneigie Recital Hall, Tanglewood and the Kennedy Center.
He has appeared as piano soloist with world-renowned orchestras including the Cleveland, Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras, the St. Louis, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Houston, Boston, Singapore, Netherlands Radio, Latvian, Iceland and London Symphony orchestras, the Buffalo, Hong Kong and Japan Philharmonic Symphony orchestras, the National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil, and the major orchestras of Australia.
His 22 recordings on the Biddulph, GM and JRI labels comprise works by more than 30 composers and reflect his affinity for a wide variety of styles. His recordings include David Ott's Second Piano Concerto with the London Symphony, a work commissioned by Moyer. Many other composers have written for him including Louis Calabro, Donal Fox, Kenneth Frazelle, Gordon Green, David Kechley, Ned Rorem, Andersen Viana and 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner Geroge Walker. Moyer commissioned Walker's Piano Sonata No. 4 and presented it in its first recording in 1986.
Moyer was the first to make a commercial recording using the Bosendorfer 290 SE Recording Piano. He has written many software programs to aid with practicing, analyzing, recording and performing music. He is working on a recording of piano concerti, where the orchestra is created with a computer using "sampling" techniques. He is a member of the Jazz Arts Trio, which plays note-for-note transcriptions of improvisations by the great jazz piano trios of Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Erroll Garner and others.
Moyer's activities have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, the United States Information Service, the Alcoa Foundation, the Astral Foundation, the Paul Green Foundation, Affiliate Artists, Concert Artists Guild, the Western States Arts Federation, the U.S. China Arts Exchange and the Korean Cultural Foundation.
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