Named Teacher of the Year by the Alabama Music Teachers Association and Music Educator of the Year by the Arts Council of Tuscaloosa, pianist Kevin T Chance has been hailed as “a superlative musician” playing “with musical conviction and muscularity.” He has performed around the world as both soloist and collaborator. Recent engagements include Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety with the Huxford Symphony Orchestra. In March 2016, he appeared with the Tuscaloosa Symphony in a performance of Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals. A prize-winning soloist, Kevin is a member of the Semplice Duo with flutist Cristina Ballatori which performs frequently in recital on the “Live from Hochstein” series, broadcast live on WXXI from Rochester, NY.
A sought-after teacher, Dr Chance maintains a prize-winning studio, and he was recently named a Leadership Board Faculty Fellow by the University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences. He currently serves on the faculties of several summer festivals including the New Orleans Piano Institute. In demand as a clinician and adjudicator, he regularly presents workshops and lecture-performances on repertoire and pedagogy throughout the country and has served as a guest artist and clinician for the Michigan, Mississippi, and Alabama state music teacher conferences, and has presented at numerous Music Teachers National Association Conferences.
Serving as Associate Professor of Piano and Chair of the Gloria Narramore Moody Piano Area at the University of Alabama, Dr Chance is a former faculty member at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music and an alumnus the Aspen Music Festival. He holds a Master of Music degree from Louisiana State University, and graduated magna cum laude from Birmingham-Southern College.
A Past President of the Alabama Music Teachers Association, Kevin currently serves as the President-Elect of the Music Teachers National Association and is a past president of the American Matthay Association.
September 20 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Classical Cool! Kids’ Concert hosted by Nina Bernstein Simmons