Hailed by England's Musical Times for his "dazzlingly prodigious technique," Haskell Small first came to public attention after winning the Pittsburgh Concert Society auditions at the age of 21. A recipient of a solo recitalist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a semifinalist in the Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition, Mr. Small has performed throughout the United States, in venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center, and the Spoleto Festival, winning an enthusiastic following. Mr. Small was featured in the PBS television special A Celebration of the Piano, taped at Wolf Trap. In recent seasons, Mr. Small has made several tours of Japan and performed recitals in Paris and London.

 

Following in the tradition of 18th and 19th century pianist/composers, Haskell Small is also an accomplished composer, who often performs his own works. He has received commissions from such organizations as the Phillips Collection, Washington Performing Arts Society, Three Rivers Piano Competition, Georgetown Symphony, and Paul Hill Chorale, and he was the winner of the 1999 Marin Ballet Dance Score Competition. Following Small's premiere performance of his work Symphony for Solo Piano, Tim Page of The Washington Post lauded the piece as "a serious and substantial composition that deserves a permanent place in the keyboard repertory."

 

Significant among Haskell Small's numerous commissions is Renoir's Feast, for piano solo, commissioned by The Phillips Collection to mark the return of the Collection's most renowned impressionist work, Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party.

 

A faculty member of the Washington Conservatory, Haskell Small received his musical training at the San Francisco Conservatory and Carnegie-Mellon University. He has studied piano with Leon Fleisher, William Masselos, Harry Franklin and Jeanne Behrend, and composition with Roland Leich and Vincent Persichetti.

 

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