The Winter 2008 edition of Duquesne University Magazine profiles the teaching and performing career of Jack W. Geltz Distinguished Piano Chair, David Allen Wehr.
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Musicfest Northwest, the largest music festival of its kind, has announced that David Allen Wehr will be one of the piano adjudicators for its 2008 edition, to be held May 11-16 in Spokane, Washington. Over 1200 young musicians are expected to participate.
For more information, visit www.musicfestnorthwest.org
In the 2006 Fall Semester, David Allen Wehr assumes the new Jack W. Geltz Distinguished Piano Chair at Duquesne University. In 2001, the Hillman Foundation donated an endowed professorship to the school, which named Wehr as its first holder for a five-year residency. The Hillman Chair now rotates to the School of Education, and the university is fortunate to have had Jack W. Geltz, an alumnus and retired Pittsburgh businessman, endow a new professorship specifically for piano. The Geltz Chair is officially inaugurated on September 10, 2006, with a recital by Wehr at Duquesne, "A Little Night Music."
The Connecticut Alliance for Music has announced the jury for the 2006 Heide Hermanns International Piano Competition, to be held in Westport, Connecticut on December 3 and 4: David Allen Wehr (Duquesne University), Seymour Lipkin (Juilliard School), and Oxana Yablonskaya (Juilliard School). The competition is open to pianists 19-35; the public is welcome to attend the auditions. For further information, visit www.camusic.org. Heide Hermanns was a German pianist, winner of the 1927 Bosendorfer Prize in Berlin, who, as a refugee from the Nazis, settled in Westport and made an enormous contribution to the musical life of Southern New England; as one of her last proteges, Mr. Wehr is honored to be on "Heide's" jury for the fourth time, having previously served in 1990, 1998 and 2002.
David Allen Wehr will present the High School Piano Master Class at the 2007 International Conference being held in Toronto jointly by MTNA (Music Teachers National Association), the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers and the Royal College of Music. The class will be held on Tuesday morning, March 27, 2007 at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto. For further information, visit www.mtna.org.
For the second time, David Allen Wehr has been invited to serve on the jury of the Beethoven Club's Beethoven Sonata Competition at Memphis State University in Memphis, Tennessee, to be held May 19-20, 2007. The competition is open to all pianists ages 16-36; the public is welcome to attend the auditions. For further information, visit www.beethovenclub.org.