Among the elite of Canadian pianists, Bruce Vogt is a unique and dynamic performer. He appears regularly in concert within Canada, but has also inspired audiences in England, the USA, Germany, China, Japan, France, Italy, Norway, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria.
 
Vogt's repertoire is extremely diverse, encompassing music from the sixteenth century to the present. He has consistently championed the music of contemporary composers, and has commissioned and premiered a number of new works by such Canadian luminaries as Murray Adaskin and Alfred Fisher. He is also an enthusiastic and dedicated performer on period instruments; one of his recordings features music of Robert Schumann performed on a restored 1864 Erard piano. Other solo recordings include two volumes of the music of Franz Liszt, which have established for him an enviable reputation as a Liszt interpreter. Two new recordings of the music of this composer are due out in the spring of 2009. 
 
In 1999, Bruce Vogt and the celebrated Japanese violist, Yumiko Yamamoto, were awarded the Kyoto Baroque Hall Award of Excellence and a substantial cash prize for the Best Concert of 1998. The Kyoto Daily spoke of their "wonderful sympathetic music making [and] exquisite technical polish." Bruce and Yumiko later released a collaborative CD entitled "Centre of Harmony: Music for Viola and Piano."
 
In addition to his career as a piano soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist, Bruce Vogt is also Professor at the University of Victoria, where he is head of the Piano Department. Because he sees teaching and working with young pianists and with piano teachers as an important commitment, he makes himself available as much as possible for master classes, workshops, festival adjudications, and lectures.
 
"What is apparent in his playing is the joy he takes in giving to others what he has so dazzlingly mastered" (Usinger Anzeiger, Germany).

Home Base: British Columbia

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