Cole Burger pianist, educator, scholar, pupil
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Cole Burger is a pianist, educator, scholar, and pupil. As both a solo and collaborative pianist, he has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and China. Cole has also organized and performed in various benefit recitals for worthy non-profit organizations that have raised more than $36,000. Passionately devoted to music of our time, he has performed numerous world and regional prèmieres of solo and chamber works. He has won prizes at the Janice K. Hodges Contemporary Piano Performance Competition, Seattle International Piano Competition, and MTNA piano competitions. Cole Burger currently serves as Associate Piano Chair at the Levine School of Music in Washington, DC, where he also teaches a large studio of children and adults in solo and group settings. Previous places of employment include the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of Texas, and Armstrong Community Music School. Cole has recently accepted a position as Faculty Artist at Lutheran Summer Music. He is also on the faculty of Camp Encore/Coda in beautiful Sweden, Maine.Cole Burger holds degrees in piano performance and economics from Northwestern University and the University of Texas. Dr. Burger has executed research and given presentations about Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus, as well as in the field of piano pedagogy, focusing on both effective practice and sight-reading techniques.Cole is grateful to the many piano instructors with whom he has studied, including his parents, Tanya Ellezian, Jane Chu-Harrington, Sylvia Wang, David Renner, and Anton Nel. As an active educator, he also thanks Marcia Bostis, Sophia Gilmson, and Martha Hilley, who have deeply influenced his teaching. Cole also learned a great deal as Case Planer for the Guest House of Milwaukee, an anti-homelessness agency shelter he worked at as a member of the Lutheran Volunteer Corps. In his spare time, Cole enjoys engaging with the Feldenkrais Method and tango dancing.
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Prelude No. 14 in F# minor, BWV 883, from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Fugue No. 14 in F# minor, BWV 883, from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Invocation and Dance for clarinet and piano by Barry Ford
Beaser Variations for Flute and Piano, movement 1
Beaser Variations for Flute and Piano, movement 2
Beaser Variations for Flute and Piano, movement 3
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The recordings of Robert Beaser's Variations for Flute and Piano with flutist Caen Thomason-Redus are the first legal recordings of the work on YouTube!
Prelude No. 14 in F# minor, BWV 883, from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Fugue No. 14 in F# minor, BWV 883, from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Invocation and Dance for clarinet and piano by Barry Ford
Beaser Variations for Flute and Piano, movement 1
Beaser Variations for Flute and Piano, movement 2
Beaser Variations for Flute and Piano, movement 3
Calendar
Calendar
February 24-25, 2012“Thematic and Formal Comparisons between Cécile Sauvage’s L’Âme en Bourgeon and Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus” Mid-Atlantic Regional ConferenceThe College Music SocietyGeorge Mason University, Fairfax, VAApril 2012Levine School of MusicSE Campus Faculty RecitalJune and July 2012Performances at Lutheran Summer MusicJuly and August 2012Performances at Camp Encore/Coda
Contact
For booking, questions, or comments, please contact: Dr. Cole Burger cole[at]coleburger.com
