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Pianist Luis Sanchez leads an
active career as soloist, collaborative artist, and teacher.
He has appeared in concerts
in the United
States, South America,
Europe, and Asia.
He is currently Assistant Professor of Piano at
Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Praised for his artistry, dazzling
technique, and inspiring performances, Luis Sanchez has presented recitals
and master classes at Central Washington University, University of North
Texas, Eckerd College, Eastern Michigan University, University of Toledo,
the Grieg Academy (Bergen, Norway), the Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo,
Norway), Hangyang University (Seoul, South Korea), and the Piano Concert
Series International (Louisiana).
He has also been featured
soloist with the Orchestra of New Spain (Dallas),
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ball State Symphony Orchestra.
A recipient of several career grants and an American
Scandinavian Foundation Fellow (2006-2007), Luis Sanchez has received
numerous awards, including the Jrimian Young Artist Competition, Centro de
Estudios Pianisticos Auditions, Fort Wayne Philharmonic Young Artist
Competition, Ball State University Concerto Competition, and Indiana Music
Teachers Association.
Luis Sanchez enjoys a successful
teaching career and is in increasing demand as adjudicator, clinician,
master teacher, and presenter at teacher's organizations and national and
international conferences.
He has presented lectures
at the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, the 2007 Hawaii
International Conference on Arts and Humanities, the 50th
National College Music Society Conference in
Salt Lake City,
and the 51st
College Music Society National Conference in
Atlanta,
Georgia.
He has been an adjudicator for numerous
competitions, including the SAI Piano Competition at the Chautauqua Summer
Institution, the Hoosier Auditions, Bach Festival Competition at Kilgore
College,
the Florida Orchestra Young Artist Competition, and the Florida State Music
Teachers Association, among others. Most recently, he was invited to serve
as examiner of the International Piano Performance Examination Committee in
Taiwan.
Born in
Argentina,
Dr. Sanchez holds degrees from the National Conservatory of Music "Carlos Lopez Buchardo" and
Ball
State University.
His teachers include Ana Litovsky-Grunwald, Graciela Beretervide, Robert
Palmer, and Rebecca Penneys.
His
interest in period instruments has led him to conduct postdoctoral studies
of fortepiano and XVIII century performance practice with Malcolm Bilson (Cornell
University),
Andrew Willis (University
of North
Carolina-Greensboro) and Liv
Glaser (Oslo,
Norway).
Dr. Sanchez's CD "A Piano Recital"
is available on www.cdbaby.com, www.towerrecords.com, and can be downloaded
on Itunes.
For additional information and
engagements please visit
www.sanchezpianist.com
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Born
in Montgomery, Alabama, John Burkett began studying the
piano and the organ at ages 6 and 9 respectively. Pre-college study with
Harald Rohlig, Mark McGowin and Gene Jarvis led to further study at the
baccalaureate, masters and doctoral levels with Ramona Beard, Robert Clark
and Jerald Hamilton. After a year's teaching experience in Nebraska at
Kearney State College and the University of Nebraska, Dr. Burkett came
to ETSU (now Texas A & M-Commerce) in 1972 where he teaches a wide
variety of courses. He has played for churches since the age of 13 and
has served as organist to the First United Methodist Church of Commerce,
Texas since 1975. Dr. Burkett also played the cello in the ETSU orchestra
from 1977 to 1989. As a composer, Dr. Burkett has written numerous hymn-based
compositions for solo organ and solo piano, most of which remain unpublished.
In 1995, however, he co-authored 101 Favorite Hymn Harmonizations for
Keyboard, which was published by Abingdon Press of Nashville. Demonstrating
an interest in subjects other than music, Dr. Burkett earned a B. S. degree
from ETSU in 1986 with majors in computer science and mathematics. For
several years he taught beginning courses in the department of Computer
Science at ETSU.
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