Michael Sheppard

Michael Sheppard is the 2003 recipient of the APA Classical Fellowship Award sponsored by the American Pianists Association. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he has been playing the piano since the age of two. Mr. Sheppard has a Masters degree from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where his teacher was Ann Schein. Currently, he is studying with Leon Fleisher. Mr. Sheppard has performed in master classes for such renowned artists and pedagogues as Eugene Istomin, Seymour Bernstein, Victor Rosenbaum, Garrick Ohlsson, Murray Perahia, Stephen Hough, Ann Schein, Kemal Gekic and Daniel Barenboim.

Mr. Sheppard has appeared in solo recitals and chamber music throughout the United States, as well as in France and Italy. Committed to new music as well as the traditional repertoire, he has worked closely with such composers as Nicholas Maw, Michael Hersch, and Robert Sirota. Recently, he played privately for John Corigliano. In addition to his performances, he also enjoys composing his own music.

Michael Sheppard has received prizes in the Cafferata-Jackson Memorial Competition, the Miecyslaw Munz Competition, the Harrison Winter Competition, the National Federation of Music Clubs Biennial National Competition and the Poulenc Plus! Competition. As a result of winning the Poulenc prize, he performed in both the 92nd Street Y and the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York. Most recently he was a semi-finalist in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.

Mr. Sheppard spent two summers at the Aspen Music Festival on full scholarship and more recently, was a piano Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. At Tanglewood, he worked closely with such distinguished musicians as Emanuel Ax, Ursula Oppens and Pamela Frank. In recent summers, as a prizewinner of the La Gesse Foundation Fellowship given by the Princess Cecilia di Medici, Sheppard presented concerts of solo and chamber music in Toulouse, France and Verona, Italy. Also, as part of the La Gesse prize, he performed three times in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in New York City, as well as at Monticello, the historical home place of Thomas Jefferson.

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11/25/03: Michael Sheppard

Michael Sheppard, classical pianist from Philadelphia, has recently returned from a Department of State-sponsored tour of Sri Lanka, Bahrain and Syria.

Michael Sheppard

Michael Sheppard, classical pianist from Philadelphia, has recently returned from a Department of State-sponsored tour of Sri Lanka, Bahrain and Syria.

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