About

Jesse Myers is a seattle-based concert pianist who strives to join education with performing. As a lecturer and writer, Myers’s goal is to provide the audience with an imaginative understanding of the music using creatively written program notes and informative pre-concert lectures. As a teacher, being on stage has become the perfect unity of performance and education. Myers’s deeply rooted background in composition and analysis, combined with his patience of teaching leads to a sophisticated yet accessible concert experience. His concerts of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes have been featured on KingFM’s Second Inversion and Seattle Weekly, and his professional recordings of live concerts are shared for free while his studio recordings are available on iTunes. His work with the prepared piano has led him to being a Visiting Artist at Cornish College of the Arts in 2017.

Mr. Myers has chosen the vocation of being a lifetime student of the piano and tireless teacher of its techniques and repertoire. He is on the faculty at Holy Names Academy and runs a thriving studio from his home in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood comprised primarily of adult classical pianists making a return to the piano. Aside from teaching at the studio and the academy, he has been accepting invitations for adjudicating competitions and leading masterclasses.

Jesse Myers has a Master of Music degree from the University of Washington in piano performance. He also attended Bowling Green State University, where he earned his Bachelor of Music in piano performance. His important teachers have been Robin McCabe (piano, UW 2004-2006), Virginia Marks (piano,BGSU 1999-2003), Valrie Kantorski and Frances Burnett (Piano, Bowling Green Creative Arts, 1995-1999), and Marylin Shrude (composition, Bowling Green Creative Arts and Interlochen).

Music

SOLO ACCOUSTIC PIANO:

J.S. Bach
Partita No. 3
Toccata in D

Beethoven
Sonata Op.2 No.3
Sonata Op.10 No. 1-3
Sonata Op.13
Sonata Op.27 No.2
Sonata Op.31 No.2
Sonata Op.53
Sonata Op.57
Sonata Op.109
32 Variations in c minor

Bergsma
Three Fantasies

Brahms
Rhapsodies Op.79

Cage
Sonatas and Interludes
In a Landscape

Chopin
Ballades Nos. 1, 3, 4
Scherzi Nos. 1 and 2
Études Op.10 Nos. 3, 4, 5, 12
Études Op.25 No.1
Fantasie-Impromptu

Creston, Paul
Six Preludes

Copland
Passacaglia

Debussy
Children’s Corner
Suite Bergamasque
Etude pour tierces
Feux d’artifice

Gershwin
Three Preludes

Ginastera
Sonata 1
Danzas Argentinas

Haydn
Sonata in C Hob.XVI:48

Liszt
Sonetto del Petrarca
Une Sospiro
Consolation No.3
Liebestraum

Mozart
Sonata K.332

Prokofiev
Sonata No.2
Visions Fugitives

Schubert
Four Impromptus
Sonata Op.959
Sonata Op.664

Schumann
Sonata No.2 in g minor
Kinderszenen
Fantasiestücke

Scarlatti
Sonatas K.9, K.25, K.146, K.197, K.380

Rachmaninoff
Preludes Op.23 Nos. 2, 4, 10
Preludes Op.32 Nos. 5 and 10
Etude Tableau Op.39 No.5

Ravel
Mirrors: Noctuelles, Oiseaux tristes, Alborada del gracioso
Ondine
Sonatine

MUSIC FOR PIANO AND ELECTRONICS:

Christopher Cerrone
Hoyt-Schermerhorn (2010)

Jacob Cooper
Clifton Gates (2011)

Reich-Corver
Piano Counterpoint (2012)

Videos

Audio