Frederick Moyer (born December 12, 1957) is an American concert pianist.
Biography
Moyer first appeared with the Boston Symphony at age 14, performed with The Boston Pops as a teenager, and made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1982. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia while in high school, and graduated from Indiana University.
Moyer has appeared as piano soloist with orchestras including the Cleveland, Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras, the St. Louis, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Houston, Singapore, Netherlands Radio, Latvian, Iceland and London Symphony Orchestras, the Buffalo, Hong Kong and Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestras, the National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil, and the major orchestras of Australia. His 25 recordings on the JRI Recordings label include the works of more than 30 composers. Composers who have written for him include Louis Calabro, Donal Fox, Kenneth Frazelle, Gordon Green, David Kechley, Ned Rorem, Andersen Viana and 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker. Moyer commissioned Walker's Piano Sonata No. 4 and presented it in its first recording in 1986.
Discography
On JRI Recordings
J145 - Mendelssohn & Mussorgsky
J143 - Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano with Nancy Green, Cello
J140 - Rachmaninoff, Addinsell, Saint-Saens
J124 - Tribute with Peter Tillotson, Bass and Peter Fraenkel, Drums
J122 - Edward MacDowell & Clara Schumann: Two Piano Concerti; Edward MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 23, with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Nayden Todorov, Conductor (Used with permission from Music Minus One); Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7, MIDI orchestra created by Dan Kury, William Rounds, Solo Cello J121 - Vienna Revisited J120 - Cello Works of Arensky and Rachmaninoff, with Nancy Green, Cello J117 - Brahms/Piatti, Hungarian Dances, with Nancy Green, Cello J116 - Franz Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin, with Benjamin Luxon, Baritone J114 - Richard Strauss - Enoch Arden, with Benjamin Luxon, Speaker J113 - Chopin J111 - Johannes Brahms - Two Sonatas for Piano and Cello, with Nancy Green, Cello J109 - American Journeys with the London Symphony Orchestra, Gisèle Ben-Dor, Conductor, Christine Michelle Smith, Flutist J108 - Camargo Guarnieri - The Twenty Estudos J107 - Rhapsody in Blue and other works J106 - Rachmaninoff Piano Works J105 - Frederick Moyer in Performance J104 - Of Old and New: A grandfather's tale J103 - Beethoven Piano Sonatas J102 - Green/Moyer Cello Recital, with Nancy Green, Cello J101 - Preludes, Fugues and Variations
Technology
Moyer is the first pianist to make a commercial recording using the Bosendorfer 290 SE Recording Piano. His CD of Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto was the first commercial recording of a large-scale Romantic work using an orchestra created from sampled sounds. He has written many software programs to aid with practicing, analyzing, recording and performing music. (3) He has also designed software that helps a live soloist to stay synchronized with a recorded accompaniment.
Moyer has three patents to his name, including two for the MoyerCam, a unique projection of the keyboard and pianist's hands on the underside of the piano lid, and one for an environmentally friendly, sturdy and elegant CD Book on which he sells his recordings.
Projects
Robert Schumann Fourth Piano Sonata
With the collaboration of electrical engineer and uncle Dr. Paul Green, Moyer unearthed the unfinished manuscript of a Fourth Piano Sonata by composer Robert Schumann. They have created a performable edition of the work, as well as “a very impressive download application that lets you follow, on the same page, both Schumann's original and the newly printed version, while listening to Moyer play the music (each measure is highlighted in sync with the playing).”