James Howsmon, piano

James Howsmon

James Howsmon has collaborated in more than 1,000 recitals in North America, Europe, and Japan. He has performed with principal players of every major American orchestra. In recent seasons, he has played in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. (at the Kennedy Center), Philadelphia, Dallas, Montreal, and Minneapolis.

Highlights of recent seasons include performances of Stravinsky鈥檚 Les Noces with the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Boulez; an ongoing series of the complete Mozart sonatas for piano and violin with violinist Marilyn McDonald; and several performances of Schubert鈥檚 Die Sch枚ne M铆录llerin with the prominent basso Robert Holl. He is a frequent performer on Oberlin College鈥檚 stages, having recently played the Poulenc Aubade with the Oberlin Wind Ensemble and Olivier Messiaen鈥檚 Couleurs de la Cit茅 Celeste with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble.

Mr. Howsmon is professor of instrumental accompanying at Oberlin, where he oversees the instrumental collaborative activities of the school鈥檚 100 piano majors. He is also on the faculty of Credo, a summer chamber music program held at Oberlin College. From 1999 to 2006, Mr. Howsmon was on the piano faculty of the Brevard Music Center. He has given guest master classes in accompanying and chamber music at, among others, the Juilliard School, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Interlochen Arts Academy, Arizona State University, the University of Colorado, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Alabama.