Anton Nel, Piano

Biography

Anton Nel, winner of the first prize in the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition, enjoys a career that has taken him throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Highlights of Mr. Nel's concertizing include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the symphonies of Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, and London.

As recitalist he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection in New York, at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, Davies Hall in San Francisco, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. He has performed recitals in major concert halls in Canada, England, France, Holland, Japan, Korea, and South Africa. A favorite at summer festivals he has performed at the Ravinia Festival, at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, as well as at the Aspen and Blossom Music Festivals. With violinist Sarah Chang he toured Japan and appeared in concert for Live Music Now in London.

He was appointed to the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, followed by professorships at the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Michigan, where he was chairman of the piano department. In September 2000, Anton Nel was named Professor of Piano and Chamber music at the University of Texas at Austin, where he now heads the Division of Keyboard Studies.