Award-winner highlights Patron of the Arts


  Wednesday, September 28, 2022
  Around Campus

By News and Internal Communications

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – Award-winning pianist David Korevaar, hailed by the Washington Post for his "wonderfully warm, pliant, spontaneous playing," will perform in recital at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 for the UTRGV Patron of the Arts Series at the TSC Performing Arts Center in Brownsville.

The program will include:

  • Beethoven’s “Sonata in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3”
  • Cécile Chaminade’s “Sonata in C Minor, Op. 21” 
  • And Frédéric Chopin’s “Twelve Etudes, Op. 25”

Tickets are $10 and $5 and can be purchased at https://utrgvarts.tiny.us/kor20221006b

Award-winner pianist David Korevaar
Award-winning pianist David Korevaar will perform for the UTRGV Patron of the Arts Series at the TSC Performing Arts Center in Brownsville at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6. Korevaar will also lead a masterclass from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Oct. 6 at the UTRGV Performing Arts Center Auditorium on the Edinburg Campus. The class is free and open to the public. (Courtesy Photo)

Korevaar will also lead a masterclass from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Oct. 6 at the UTRGV Performing Arts Center Auditorium on the Edinburg Campus. The class is free and open to the public.

In demand as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborator, Korevaar has performed and given masterclasses throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America.

Highlights of last summer included performances at the Music in the Mountains Festival, where he was in residence, and performances with the Carpe Diem String Quartet at the Snake River Music Festival and The Academy in Boulder. The program featured the modern premiere of the “Piano Quintet” by the unjustly forgotten Italian impressionist composer Luigi Perrachio, as well as the Dvorak “Piano Quintet.” Korevaar discovered the original, unpublished Perrachio manuscript in Turin, Italy; the most recent addition to Korevaar’s extensive discography of more than 50 titles includes a highly praised disc of world premiere recordings of Perrachio’s piano music.

Previous performances include concertos with the Rochester Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Japan's Shonan Chamber Orchestra, Brazil's Goiania Symphony, and with acclaimed conductors including Guillermo Figueroa, Per Brevig, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Jorge Mester.  

Korevaar is a regular guest with the Takács Quartet, and recently performed with them on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center in New York.  He is a frequent collaborator with acclaimed violinist Charles Wetherbee, with whom he has recorded numerous albums including Tibor Harsányi's “A Hungarian in Paris” and an album dedicated to the works of Iranian-American composer Reza Vali. 

In June 2021, Korevaar performed Price’s original piano work, “Fantasie Nègre No. 4,” as part of the Denver Chapter of Music for Food virtual concert, which can be viewed at

https://youtu.be/IVWnnQzF5lA

Korevaar also has concertized and given masterclasses in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Cultural Envoy Program, and taught at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) in Kabul.

For more information on Korevaar, visit www.davidkorevaar.com 



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The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 as the first major public university of the 21st century in Texas. This transformative initiative provided the opportunity to expand educational opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley, including a new School of Medicine, and made it possible for residents of the region to benefit from the Permanent University Fund – a public endowment contributing support to the University of Texas System and other institutions.

UTRGV has campuses and off-campus research and teaching sites throughout the Rio Grande Valley including in Boca Chica Beach, Brownsville (formerly The University of Texas at Brownsville campus), Edinburg (formerly The University of Texas-Pan American campus), Harlingen, McAllen, Port Isabel, Rio Grande City, and South Padre Island. UTRGV, a comprehensive academic institution, enrolled its first class in the fall of 2015, and the School of Medicine welcomed its first class in the summer of 2016.