Discovers Music Series Presents Michael Boyd, Pianist
October 6, 3:00 PM. Doors open at 2:30. Admission is free, and there is no reserved seating. St. Timothy Episcopal church is located at 871 East Boundary, Perrysburg. The facility is accessible and offers ample parking.
To begin the season on Sunday, October 6, Discovers is delighted to present Dr. Michael Boyd, pianist, who most recently retired from the University of Toledo. Upon his retirement from the Music Department, Dr. Boyd was named a Distinguished Professor of Piano. Also a Steinway Artist, Michael Boyd is active as a soloist, collaborative artist, lecturer, teacher and adjudicator. After graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts under the tutelage of Bela Nagy, he continued at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts Winter Program in Canada as an invited student/performer. His studies culminated in the Master’s and Doctoral degrees and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. While at Eastman, he won first prize as pianist in the Kneisel Lieder Competition and played a radio broadcast recital from Carnegie Hall with Naumburg prize-winning violinist Ian Swensen.
As a concerto soloist, Dr. Boyd has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Toledo Symphony, the Dearborn Symphony, and the Eastman Chamber Orchestra. Solo recitals have taken him across the country to California, New York, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio. Most notably, he was invited to perform the original 1838 version of the Liszt Paganini Etudes on the opening concert of the American Liszt Society in San Francisco. In Europe, Dr. Boyd has performed recitals in Austria, Belgium, Greece and Spain and recently performed and taught masterclasses in China. His adjudication credits include the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition and the Liszt Garrison Competition at Ohio State University.
For the October 6 recital, Dr. Boyd will perform a set of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, works by Claude Debussy, Spanish composer Rodolfo Halffter, Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hensel and concluding with an Earl Wild arrangement Fantasy on Porgy and Bess, from George Gershwin’s epic work for the stage.