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Dean Kramer
(541) 346-3779
dkramer@uoregon.edu
Dean Kramer is associate professor of piano.
He has been at the University of Oregon since
1983.
Kramer received the B.Mus. degree from Oberlin
College Conservatory of Music, the M.Mus. and
D.M.A. degrees from the University of Texas
at Austin. He studied with Vladimir Horowitz
through the Mannes School in New York, Adele
Marcus at Juilliard, and with John Perry at
the University of Texas/Austin. He has also
been coached by Artur Rubinstein, Gina Bachauer,
Leon Fleisher, and Eugene List.
Prior to his appointment to the UO School
of Music faculty, Kramer taught at the Oberlin
Conservatory and at the Aspen Music Festival
as John Perry's assistant.
Kramer has appeared as piano soloist with
the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony,
the North Carolina Symphony, the Boise Symphony,
the Eugene Symphony, the Oregon Mozart Players,
and orchestras in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland;
Bucharest, Rumania; and Cairo, Egypt. He has
appeared in recital in New York, Philadelphia,
Washington, D.C., Miami, Minneapolis, Detroit,
Phoenix, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Seattle,
and Eugene, as well as cities in Poland, France,
Hungary, Malta, Egypt, Finland, and Cyprus.
In 1984 Kramer was chosen as one of four pianists
to tour abroad under the U.S. Information Agency's
“Cultural Ambassador” program. He received
first prizes in the first American Chopin Competition
in Miami (1975); the Washington International
Competition in Washington, DC (1973); the American
Music Scholarship Competition in Cincinnati
(1973); and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin
Competition in New York (1972). He has also
received laureate honors in the Three Rivers
Piano Competition in Pittsburgh (1980) and
was one of the few American pianists to have
received laureate honors in the International
Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland (1975).
During the fall of 1993, Kramer was a resident
artist at the Banff Center for the Arts in
Alberta, Canada. In 1997 he was featured with
the Oregon Symphony Orchestra on the "Nerve
Endings" series, with Murry Sidlin conducting.
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