Rate My Professor David Korevaar

David Korevaar is the Distinguished Professor of Piano and Helen and Peter Weil Faculty Fellow in the College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder, contributing significantly to Arts and Culture through his expertise in piano performance and scholarship. He joined the faculty in 2000 as Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2006, Professor in 2011, and Distinguished Professor in 2019. Prior to this, he held positions as Artist-Teacher at the Westport School of Music from 1987 to 2000 and Head of Piano Studies at the University of Bridgeport from 1995 to 2000. Korevaar earned a Bachelor of Music in 1982, Master of Music in 1983, and Doctor of Musical Arts in 2000 from The Juilliard School, where his doctoral document 'Ravel’s Mirrors' received the Richard French award for the best DMA document. His teachers included Earl Wild, Abbey Simon, and Paul Doguereau. He has served as Chair of the Piano Department (2010-2013, 2019-2022), Faculty Affairs Coordinator since 2023, and on numerous committees including Graduate Studies, Curriculum, and Diversity.

Korevaar's academic interests focus on piano performance, chamber music, piano literature, and pedagogy. His publications include 'Performer’s Voices on Ravel’s Concerto pour la main gauche' (2019), 'Interior Virtuosity: Grasping Fauré’s Piano Music' (2015), 'Liszt as Transcriber' (2012), and 'The Ricardo Viñes Piano Music Collection at the University of Colorado at Boulder' (2004). He maintains an extensive discography of nearly 50 recordings, including the complete Beethoven piano sonatas (Prospero Classical, 2025), world premiere recordings of Luigi Perrachio’s Nove Poemetti and 25 Preludi (MSR Classics, 2018), Paul Juon’s three violin sonatas with Charles Wetherbee (Naxos, 2019), and multiple volumes of Lowell Liebermann’s piano music. Awards include the 2016 Distinguished Research Lectureship (first for the College of Music), 2007 Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award, and prizes from the William Kapell International Piano Competition, Peabody-Mason Foundation, and Robert Casadesus Competition. As a performer, he has soloed with the Rochester Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, and Takács Quartet, participated in U.S. State Department Cultural Envoy programs in Central Asia, and taught at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Korevaar has also composed works for piano, chamber ensemble, and orchestra, and made transcriptions of Liszt’s symphonic poems.