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Friday, February 07, 2025NEW RELEASE WITH CELLIST BRIAN THORNTONJust released on the Steinway & Sons label: My fifth recording with world-class cellist and Cleveland Orchestra member Brian Thornton, of the Chopin and Rachmaninoff Cello Sonatas.
May 4, 2025SUMMER 2025 SCHEDULEThe Summer 2025 performance/teaching schedule is up! Check out the Schedule page for info on exciting upcoming recitals in Virginia, South Carolina and New York City's Bargemusic Series, as well as teaching residencies at the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival in Florida and the Vancouver Piano Sessions in British Columbia, among others.

Tuesday, December 20, 2022CHOPIN IMPROMPTUS INTERVIEWHello friends! Check out this interview just released in the American Pianists Association's December newsletter, showcasing the Chopin Impromptus, just released on the Steinway Classics series!
Sunday, October 30, 2022NEW STEINWAY RELEASEThe Four Chopin Impromptus have been released on the Steinway Classics series! Download today! Link here!
May 8, 2022INDIANA UNIVERSITY PIANO FACULTYExciting news: Spencer will be joining the faculty at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year as Associate Professor of Piano!
Friday, July 03, 2020NEW VIDEOSCheck out the many new additions on the Video page, including Beethoven's transcendent Sonata Op. 110, Chopin's 3rd and 4th Ballades, and William Bolcom's "The Serpent's Kiss", from Spencer's critically acclaimed "Piano Rags" CD on the Steinway & Sons label!

Thursday, July 02, 2020NEW YORK TIMESSpencer and baritone Mario Diaz-Moresco are currently performing "To my Distant Love", On Site Opera's latest innovative production, presenting Beethoven's "An die Ferne Geliebte" to individual patrons via telephone. Check out the profile in the New York Times!
Saturday, May 25, 2019COVER STORY OF CLAVIER COMPANIONSpencer is featured on the cover of the January/February 2019 issue of "Clavier Companion" magazine, in an up-close and personal interview with Lynn Worcester Jones. Get your copy today, or subscribe to read the interview online!
Lauded for "superb playing" and "poised, alert musicianship" by the Boston Globe, and labeled "definitely a man to watch" by London's The Independent, American pianist SPENCER MYER is one of the most respected and sought-after artists on today's concert stage.

Spencer Myer’s orchestral, recital and chamber music performances have been heard throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has been soloist with, among many others, The Cleveland Orchestra, Boise, Dayton, Louisiana and Rhode Island philharmonic orchestras, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Baton Rouge, Bozeman, Canton, Chattanooga, Flagstaff, Indianapolis, Juneau, Knoxville, New Haven, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Springfield (MA, MO, OH), Traverse, Tucson and Wyoming symphony orchestras, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Ohio’s ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, New York City’s The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, Mexico’s Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, South Africa’s Cape Town and Johannesburg philharmonic orchestras and Beijing’s China National Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with, among others, conductors David Bernard, Mélisse Brunet, Nicholas Cleobury, David Danzmayr, Robert Franz, Neal Gittleman, Bernhard Gueller, Jacques Lacombe, Jahja Ling, Dirk Meyer, Elliot Moore, Timothy Muffitt, Maurice Peress, Kyle Wiley Pickett, Kevin Rhodes, Lucas Richman, Matthew Savery, Alfred Savia, Klauspeter Seibel, Steven Smith, Gerald Steichen, Arjan Tien, Peter Stafford Wilson and Victor Yampolsky. His 2005 recital/orchestral tour of South Africa included a performance of the five piano concerti of Beethoven with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, followed by six return orchestra and recital tours.

Spencer Myer's recital appearances have been presented in New York City's Weill Recital Hall, 92nd Street Y and Steinway Hall, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center and London’s Wigmore Hall, while many of his performances have been broadcast on WQXR (New York City), WHYY (Philadelphia), WCLV (Cleveland) and WFMT (Chicago). An in-demand chamber musician, he has appeared multiple summers at the Lev Aronson Legacy Festival with cellists Lynn Harrell, Ralph Kirshbaum, Amit Peled, Tom Landschoot and Brian Thornton, and has enjoyed a recurring partnership for over a decade with the Miami String Quartet at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival. Other artistic partners include clarinetist David Shifrin, sopranos Nicole Cabell, Martha Guth and Erin Wall, the Jupiter and Pacifica string quartets and the Dorian Wind Quintet.

Spencer Myer's career was launched with three important prizes: First Prize in the 2004 UNISA International Piano Competition in South Africa, the 2006 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship from the American Pianists Association and the Gold Medal from the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition. He is also a laureate of the 2007 William Kapell, 2005 Cleveland and 2005 Busoni international piano competitions. He enjoys an esteemed reputation as a vocal collaborator since winning the 2000 Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition. Mr. Myer was a member of Astral Artists' performance roster from 2003-2010.

A renowned pedagogue, Spencer Myer is currently Associate Professor of Piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he was named a recipient of the 2024 Trustees Teaching Award. Previously, has served as a guest faculty at the Oberlin and Baldwin-Wallace Conservatories of Music, and was a member of the piano faculty at Boston's Longy School of Music of Bard College from 2016 to 2022.

Since 2017, Spencer Myer has released six recordings on the Steinway & Sons label: Piano Rags of William Bolcom, “Chopin: The Four Impromptus”, and four discs with cellist Brian Thornton encompassing repertoire of Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Schumann and Rachmaninoff.

Spencer Myer is a Steinway Artist.