Douglas Humpherys, Chairman of the Jury, USA

Douglas Humpherys was the Gold Medalist at the inaugural Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. He has concertized throughout Asia, Europe, and North America, including recent concerts in Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Guanzhou, Wuhan, Seoul, Berlin, Hamburg, Venice, Prague, and Novgorod, Russia. He has conducted hundreds of master classes at universities, music academies, festivals, and conventions in China, Korea, Russia, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Canada, and the United States. In addition, he has presented lectures to the European Piano Teachers' Association, the American Music Teachers' Association, the World Conference on Piano Pedagogy, and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. A frequent adjudicator, he has served on the jury of the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition, and chaired juries at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.

Mr. Humpherys completed graduate degrees at the Juilliard School (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (DMA), where he is currently Co-chair of the piano department, and director of the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition. He has traveled to the Czech Republic three times as a faculty member of the South Bohemia Summer Music Festival, and in recent years, completed appointments as Visiting Professor of Piano at the University of Michigan and at Yonsei University in Korea. He has recorded a wide variety of repertoire on compact disc, and has been featured in live broadcasts of performances on affiliates of PBS Television and National Public Radio.

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