Richard Glazier
Richard Glazier is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music where he received a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance. He has won many honors including the Pro Musicis International Award, National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition Grand Prize and the Deutscher Akademischer Austaushdienst (DAAD) grant, the highest academic honor awarded by the German Government. He is also the recipient of a grant from the Indiana Arts Commission in recognition of his artistic achievements.
Glazier has been acclaimed as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras throughout the United States and Europe. Career highlights include his debuts in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, and The Bing Theater, Los Angeles, and performances of all-Gershwin concerts at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Chautauqua Institution. In 1995, he performed with Byron Janis in a work for one piano four hands at the Pro Musicis 30th anniversary gala at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Glazier was recently a featured guest in the concert series, "Michael Feinstein and Friends" at Carnegie Hall.
Although trained in the classics, Glazier has a special affinity for the American Popular Song. His connection to the music began with a childhood introduction to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. His enthusiasm for the Gershwin piece led to a correspondence with Ira Gershwin, which resulted in an invitation to the lyricist's Beverly Hills home. During the visit, Glazier was given the honor of playing on George Gershwin's personal piano.
Glazier's interest in the Gershwins' music led him to the wonderful movie musicals for which they wrote. Glazier remembers watching great talents like Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on a tiny, black and white television. Today, Glazier pays tribute to these performers, their films, and the great composers who wrote for them in his one-man multi-media show entitled "A Salute to The Hollywood Musical." He is currently touring with this program nationwide under the auspices of Community Concerts.
Glazier has appeared on many local and national television programs and is a featured performer on the CLASSICARTS satellite network. He's also been a frequent guest on NPR's "Performance Today". Glazier has released two Gershwin recordings on the Centaur Label entitled "Gershwin: Remembrance and Discovery" Volumes 1 and 2. In 1998, Glazier was chosen to record an all-Gershwin project in honor of the Gershwin Centennial for the PianoDisc company's Artist Series. He has completed the first volume of the piano works of Scott Joplin for Centaur Records and will soon release his latest recording project, "A Salute to the Hollywood Musical.
Richard Glazier is a Steinway Artist. You can visit him online at www.richardglazier.com.
