Jeffrey LaDeur enjoys a busy career as soloist, chamber musician and educator. Praised for his "articulate, expressive work at the keyboard" (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “...dazzling pianism...” (Sarasota Herald Tribune) Jeffrey has concertized around the world including performances at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Eastman Theater, Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt, and Banff Centre for the Arts. His performances have been broadcast over WFMT Chicago, South Dakota Public Radio and America's Music Festivals hosted by Marin Alsop. At the invitation of the Naumburg Foundation, Jeffrey made his Carnegie debut in Weill Recital Hall in March 2015.
As soloist with orchestra, Jeffrey made an auspicious debut with the Eastman Philharmonia performing César Franck's Variations Symphoniques during his first semester of study at the Eastman School of Music. Recent orchestral engagements include concertos with the Denver Philharmonic, Oakland East Bay Symphony, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, and Bear Valley Music Festival Orchestra, collaborating with esteemed conductors such as George Cleve, Lawrence Golan, Michael Morgan, and Neil Varon. Jeffrey will begin the 2015-2016 season as soloist in Mozart's Concerto in d minor K.466 with the Merced Symphony and newly appointed music director, Ming Luke.
LaDeur has performed in recital throughout the United States including appearances at the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center, Dakota Sky International Piano Festival, Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, and Noe Valley Chamber Music. Recent solo performances include recitals at Old First Concerts, a live broadcast from PianoForte studios in Chicago, and at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he has served as Artist- in-Residence since January 2014.
Jeffrey has collaborated with artists such as Robert Mann, Bonnie Hampton, Ian Swensen, Axel Strauss, the Telegraph Quartet, and the Afiara Quartet.
Education through music is central to LaDeur's mission as a performer. Jeffrey has given masterclasses at the Dakota Sky international Piano Festival, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. A faculty member of the Crowden Music Center, Jeffrey works with gifted students through piano and chamber music programs in addition to his faculty positions at the center's youth and adult chamber music workshops. With his colleagues Liana Berube and Michelle Kwon of the Delphi Trio, he has developed a program for emerging artists which guides serious young ensembles through their first professional concert experience.
Jeffrey completed his undergraduate education at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Douglas Humpherys and earned a Masters Degree in chamber music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music studying with Yoshikazu Nagai. One of two pianists selected for the 2010 Taos School of Music, LaDeur worked intensively with pianist Robert McDonald and members of the Borromeo, St. Lawrence, and Brentano String Quartets. Jeffrey received his formative musical training from Mark Edwards and Annie Sherter, a student of Vlado Perlemuter and Alfred Cortot.
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