Joseph Hauer, Award-Winning Concert Pianist will perform Bach, Chopin Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Albright.
Joseph Hauer, from Appleton, Wisconsin, completed his undergraduate studies at the Oberlin Conservatory with Professor Peter Takács. His former teachers include Catherine Kautsky, Kyung Kim, Catherine Walby, and Charlene Reitz. In past summers he has attended the Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium at Princeton University, PianoSummer at New Paltz, New York, and Pianofest in the Hamptons. Last summer, he performed multiple piano trios and piano duets in the inaugural season of the Houston, MN Chamber Music series, and is returning for a second season this summer. As a soloist, he has collaborated with the Fox Valley Symphony, Madison Symphony Orchestra, and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, as well as performed Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with a student orchestra at Oberlin. His performances have been broadcast statewide on Wisconsin Public Television and Wisconsin Public Radio. Hauer’s other recent performances of solo and chamber works include house concerts in New York City, Cleveland, OH, and Verona, WI; recitals in Oakton, VA, Valley Cottage, NY, Sheboygan, WI, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and UM School of Music in Ann Arbor, MI; and numerous recitals at the Oberlin Conservatory and Kendal at Oberlin. He is a winner of the 2013-2014 Oberlin senior concerto competition and, as a result, performed Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto with the Oberlin orchestra, Rafael Jimenez conducting.
Hauer attended Oberlin on a full scholarship from the Miller Family Music Education Scholarship of Appleton, Wisconsin. He is currently pursuing a master’ in Piano Performance at NYU Steinhardt, where he holds a position as Adjunct Faculty of Piano. His other interests include jazz piano, Russian, racquetball, and snowboarding.
