Dr. Edward Turgeon
DMA, Yale University School of Music
Associate Professor
Coordinator of Collaborative Studies
DMA, Yale University School of Music
Associate Professor
Coordinator of Collaborative Studies
Areas of Expertise
• Piano
• Collaborative Studies
• Chamber Music
• Music History
• Piano
• Collaborative Studies
• Chamber Music
• Music History
Dr. Edward Turgeon
Edward Turgeon enjoys a busy career as chamber
musician and pedagogue. He has performed and/or toured with noted
instrumentalists of our time including Sidney Harth, James
Campbell, Michael Rusinek, Ransom Wilson, Chee-Yun, David Jolley,
Ivan Chan, Keith Robinson, and Laura Gilbert. As a member of Duo
Turgeon, with his wife Anne, Edward has performed many concerts in
some of the world's best known halls and festivals including the
Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall,
to name a few. Critics have hailed the duo as being among the top
four or five piano duos of our time.
As soloist, Edward has taken prizes in the Canadian Music Competition and the CIBC National Competitive Festival of Music. As a member of Duo Turgeon, Edward's awards include first prize in the Ninth International Schubert Competition for Piano Duos (Czech Republic, 1995) and first prize in the Sixth Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (Miami, 1997) the latter of which is widely regarded as the largest, most respected duo piano competition in the world. Edward's additional Dranoff prizes include the special prize for best one piano, four-hand performances, and best performance of John Corigliano's "Chiaroscuro" for two pianos, commissioned by the Dranoff Foundation for the 1997 competition. The latter prize included an opportunity to record Chiaroscuro for the Vanguard Classics label, a world premiere recording described by American Record Guide as having "hypnotic intensity".
The past few years have seen the release of five recordings on labels such as Marquis Classics / EMI and Vanguard Classics, two of which have been designated "CD of the month" and "top classical chamber music recording of the year" (CBC's "Galaxie"). Upcoming recording projects include works for two pianos by Johannes Brahms, and works for two pianos by Latin American composers including Piazzola, Guastavino, Ponce, Pinto, Mignone, Lecuona and Nazareth.
Turgeon has given world premiere performances of works by John Corigliano, Aaron Copland, Alex Pauk, Timothy Sullivan and Arthur Weisberg. His performances have been heard in hundreds of broadcasts worldwide, including several on National Public Radio's "Performance Today". He is a featured performer in the PBS documentary "Two Pianos - One Passion".
Turgeon earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (1988) and the coveted Forsyth Memorial Scholarship for most promising graduating pianist. Post graduate studies with Peter Frankl at Yale University School of Music led to successful completion of Master of Music (1993), Master of Musical Arts (1994), and Doctor of Musical Arts (2000) degrees in piano performance. Turgeon was awarded numerous prizes and scholarships at Yale including best piano trio (1993), the Philip Nelson and Catherine Winchell Memorial Scholarships. He received additional solo and four-hand chamber music instruction with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Boris Berman, Claude Frank and Peter Serkin, while participating in summer programs at the Banff Centre for Fine Arts, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Holland Music Sessions and the Jeunesses Musicales International Chamber Music Festival and Courses, Weikersheim, Germany, where Edward performed in master classes with Gyorgy Sandor, John O'Conor, John Perry, Jean Paul Sevilla, Claude Frank, Marek Jablonski, and coached with various members of the Bavarian Radio and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras.
Turgeon has served on the judging panels of several solo and duo piano competitions. He is well known and respected in his native Canada as a festival adjudicator and senior examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music's College of Examiners. He has served as faculty member, music department coordinator and artist-in- residence at Algoma University College; chamber music artist faculty and associate professor of music at the Harid Conservatory. He is presently accompanying and chamber music coordinator, and keyboard faculty member at Florida Atlantic University's School of the Arts, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton, where he has been on faculty since 1998.
As soloist, Edward has taken prizes in the Canadian Music Competition and the CIBC National Competitive Festival of Music. As a member of Duo Turgeon, Edward's awards include first prize in the Ninth International Schubert Competition for Piano Duos (Czech Republic, 1995) and first prize in the Sixth Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (Miami, 1997) the latter of which is widely regarded as the largest, most respected duo piano competition in the world. Edward's additional Dranoff prizes include the special prize for best one piano, four-hand performances, and best performance of John Corigliano's "Chiaroscuro" for two pianos, commissioned by the Dranoff Foundation for the 1997 competition. The latter prize included an opportunity to record Chiaroscuro for the Vanguard Classics label, a world premiere recording described by American Record Guide as having "hypnotic intensity".
The past few years have seen the release of five recordings on labels such as Marquis Classics / EMI and Vanguard Classics, two of which have been designated "CD of the month" and "top classical chamber music recording of the year" (CBC's "Galaxie"). Upcoming recording projects include works for two pianos by Johannes Brahms, and works for two pianos by Latin American composers including Piazzola, Guastavino, Ponce, Pinto, Mignone, Lecuona and Nazareth.
Turgeon has given world premiere performances of works by John Corigliano, Aaron Copland, Alex Pauk, Timothy Sullivan and Arthur Weisberg. His performances have been heard in hundreds of broadcasts worldwide, including several on National Public Radio's "Performance Today". He is a featured performer in the PBS documentary "Two Pianos - One Passion".
Turgeon earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (1988) and the coveted Forsyth Memorial Scholarship for most promising graduating pianist. Post graduate studies with Peter Frankl at Yale University School of Music led to successful completion of Master of Music (1993), Master of Musical Arts (1994), and Doctor of Musical Arts (2000) degrees in piano performance. Turgeon was awarded numerous prizes and scholarships at Yale including best piano trio (1993), the Philip Nelson and Catherine Winchell Memorial Scholarships. He received additional solo and four-hand chamber music instruction with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Boris Berman, Claude Frank and Peter Serkin, while participating in summer programs at the Banff Centre for Fine Arts, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Holland Music Sessions and the Jeunesses Musicales International Chamber Music Festival and Courses, Weikersheim, Germany, where Edward performed in master classes with Gyorgy Sandor, John O'Conor, John Perry, Jean Paul Sevilla, Claude Frank, Marek Jablonski, and coached with various members of the Bavarian Radio and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras.
Turgeon has served on the judging panels of several solo and duo piano competitions. He is well known and respected in his native Canada as a festival adjudicator and senior examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music's College of Examiners. He has served as faculty member, music department coordinator and artist-in- residence at Algoma University College; chamber music artist faculty and associate professor of music at the Harid Conservatory. He is presently accompanying and chamber music coordinator, and keyboard faculty member at Florida Atlantic University's School of the Arts, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton, where he has been on faculty since 1998.
