Pianist Jay Hershberger has played throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.  His domestic performances include the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Library of Congress.  He has also been frequent guest artist at the Great Romantics Music Festival in Canada.  In years past he performed in Europe, including the Amalfi Coast Music Festival in southern Italy and the South Bohemia Music Festival in the Czech Republic.  Recent tours have included major cities in China, and at music festivals in Scotland and Italy.  He is a founding member of Excelsior! Trio, a chamber group that performs an eclectic mix of classical, folk, jazz, and fusion.  Excelsior! Trio tours extensively in the US and in Europe.

Jay is currently Professor of Piano at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN.   His undergraduate students regularly win competitions and have been accepted into prestigious graduate schools in piano performance and pedagogy, many with teaching assistantships.  An active adjudicator, Hershberger has judged for the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, the Phoenix Young Artist Competition, the San Angelo Symphony Sorantin Awards, the Lee Biennial Competition, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Young Artist Competition, and the Music Teachers National Association.   He is vice president of the American Liszt Society. His first compact disc recording, featuring works by Franz Liszt was featured on Michael Barone’s New Releases radio program on Minnesota Public Radio.

PROGRAM

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Sonata in G, D. 894. by Franz Schubert

     Molto moderato e cantabile

     Andante

     Menuetto: Allegro moderato

     Allegretto

Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat, Op. 51 by Frederic Chopin

Polonaise-Fantasie in A-flat, Op. 61 by Chopin

Ballade No. 3 in A-flat, Op. 47 by Chopin