Geoffrey Burleson


Geoffrey Burleson is an American classical and jazz pianist.

Biography and career{{Cite web|title=Geoffrey Burleson Princeton Department of Music|url=https://music.princeton.edu/people/geoffrey-burleson|access-date=2020-06-16|website=music.princeton.edu}}

Burleson studied at the Peabody Conservatory, New England Conservatory, and Stony Brook University, and his teachers include Gilbert Kalish, Leonard Shure, , , , and Audrey Bart Brown.
He made his New York City solo recital debut at Merkin Hall in 2000, sponsored by the .  He has performed solo recitals and appeared as featured soloist in Paris, New York, Rome, Helsinki, Athens, Mexico City, Rotterdam, Chicago, and elsewhere. He has also appeared as concerto soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic, , , , , Princeton University Orchestra, , and the Holland Symfonia in the Netherlands. He has also appeared as soloist in many international festivals, including the , Bard Music Festival, , , , the , and the .
Among his solo recordings are the complete piano works of Camille Saint-Saëns on 6 CDs, the complete piano works of Roy Harris, and Vincent Persichetti's 12 piano sonatas. Both Volume 5 of Burleson's Saint-Saëns series, and the Roy Harris CD, include several first recordings of unpublished works. Chamber recordings include Odd Couple, a duo CD with Matt Haimovitz including works of Samuel Barber, Elliott Carter, David Sanford, and Augusta Read Thomas ; and AKOKA with a program featuring Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, as well as works by David Krakauer and DJ Socalled, with David Krakauer, clarinet; Matt Haimovitz, cello; and , violin. 
Burleson is a core member of the , , , , David Sanford’s , , the , and Princeton University's .
He is currently on the piano and chamber music faculty of Princeton University, and is Professor of Music and Director of Piano Studies at Hunter College.

Awards and honors

Burleson was nominated for a 2015 Juno Award for Classical Album Of The Year for the AKOKA CD. His recordings of Saint-Saëns's complete piano works garnered International Piano Choice Awards from , and his CD set of Persichetti's piano sonatas received a BBC Music Choice award from BBC Music Magazine. He has also received awards from the International Piano Recording Competition, the Vienna Modern Masters International Performers' Competition, and was the recipient of a DAAD Grant from the German government to support a residency at the Academy of Arts in Berlin.