Leo Gevisser piano, solo

2 Union Street,Sparkill NY 10976

13 March, 2022

Description

Performing Bach, Adès, Brahms Tchaikovsky Bach, Adès, Brahms Performing Tchaikovsky Bach, Adès, Brahms and Tchaikovsky Leo Gevisser, 19, began his piano studies aged 5 and moved to the US from South Africa in 2017 to further his musical studies under Professors Kathryn Brown and Daniel Shapiro at the Cleveland Institute of Music Young Artists Program. He is currently pursuing his second year in the Bachelor of Music degree program at The Juilliard School, studying with Jerome Lowenthal. He has been invited to perform solo recitals with The Brooklyn Theatre in Pretoria, the Hermanus Fynarts Music Festival, The Fish Hoek Friends of Music Society, and the Sparkill Concert Series (Sparkill, NY) in March 2022. Leo won the Grand Prize at the 2019 Baltimore International Piano Festival Competition, which included a recital invitation at Weill Recital Hall NY in Summer 2020. Additionally in 2019, his chamber music group – the Arcus Trio – was awarded the Grand Prize and Junior Division Prize at the 6th Coltman Chamber Music Competition, which included an invitation to perform at the 37th Annual Young Musicians Concert at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Centre, NY in Spring 2020. They were also awarded 2nd Prize in the Junior Division in the WDAV Young Chamber Music Competition and were semifinalists at the 46th Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Leo gave his concerto debut aged 11 performing with the Kwa-Zulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, he has been invited to perform with South Africa’s Philharmonic and Youth orchestras on many occasions. He has also been involved in youth philanthropic programs with the Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra in the gang afflicted area of Mitchells Plain, Cape Town and regularly donates performance fees to The Masidlale Strings Project – a youth strings teaching project in the townships around Cape Town run by the outreach arm of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. He was invited to perform with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra again in June 2020. In 2017, Leo was selected as the winner of both Cleveland Institute of Music Preparatory Concerto Competition and the Cleveland Suburban Symphony Young Soloists Concerto Competition. Leo has received artistic input from esteemed teachers such as Gary Graffman, Menahem Pressler, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, James Giles, Julian Martin, Jean Saulnier, Yoshikazu Nagai, Hyoung-Joon Chang, Marina Lomazov, Logan Skelton, Douglas Humphries, Yuri Shadrin, Amy Gustafson, Enrico Elisi, Paul Schenly, Alexander Kobrin, Arthur Greene, Lukas Vondracek, and Vanessa Latarche. He has also attended summer festival programs including the Art of the Piano, Gijon International Piano Festival, Amalfi Arts and Music Festival, Vivace Music Festival, Baltimore International Piano Festival, and, as a composer, the Young Composer’s Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music.