Geoffrey Burleson is Coordinator of Piano Studies at Hunter College. Prof. Burleson has performed to wide acclaim throughout Europe and North America, and is equally active as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and jazz performer. The New York Times has hailed his solo performances as “vibrant and compelling”, furthermore praising his “rhythmic brio, projection of rhapsodic qualities, appropriate sense of spontaneity, and rich colorings.” He has appeared as concerto soloist with the Boston Musica Viva, Arlington Philharmonic, New England Philharmonic, and the Holland Symfonia in the Netherlands, performing repertoire ranging from Mozart, Weber and Saint-Saëns to Gershwin and Klaas de Vries. Mr. Burleson’s first solo CD, Arthur Berger: Complete Works for Solo Piano (Centaur), received high praise from The New York Times, Gramophone, The Boston Globe and the American Record Guide. He is currently recording Vincent Persichetti: Complete Piano Sonatas (New World Records; Spring 2008), on which all twelve of Persichetti’s piano sonatas will be united on one release for the first time. Prof. Burleson is also a core member of several prominent chamber groups and ensembles, including The New York Art Ensemble, the Boston Musica Viva, and the Pittsburgh Collective, and has performed in duos with violinists Malcolm Lowe, Mary Rowell and Bayla Keyes, cellist Matt Haimovitz, and flutist Jacques Zoon.

Prof. Burleson’s major teachers include Gilbert Kalish, Leonard Shure, Veronica Jochum, Lillian Freundlich, Tinka Knopf, and Audrey Bart Brown. Information regarding Prof. Burleson’s concert schedule and recordings can be found at http://www.geoffreyburleson.com.