Please join us for a special Meet & Greet with Steinway Artist Drew Petersen at Schmitt Music Kansas City on Friday, March 1st at 5:30PM – FREE!
You’ll get to meet Drew Petersen and hear him talk about his music, do a Q&A session, and sign autographs. This event is your chance to see Drew Petersen before he heads to the Carlsen Center at Johnson County Community College for a performance with the Youth Symphony of Kansas City for their 60th Anniversary Gala on Saturday, March 2nd.
Space is limited, so please let us know if you plan to attend – CLICK HERE TO RSVP!
Watch Drew Petersen perform Chopin’s “Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52” below:
Drew Petersen is the winner of the 2017 American Pianists Awards and the Christel DeHaan Fellowship of the American Pianists Association, and has been named Artist-in-Residence for two years by the University of Indianapolis. In March of 2018, he was honored as a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. This is the latest accolade in a decorated young career that includes being prize winner in the Leeds International Piano Competition, the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition and the New York Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. Petersen was presented at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall at age five and by age nine he was presented in a solo recital at Steinway Hall in Manhattan for the company’s 150th Anniversary.
The New York Times has written about the early performances of the gifted, “freckle-faced 10-year-old who still impresses adults with his intelligence, maturity and depth” and New York Magazine prominently featured Petersen in an article about child prodigies. Petersen’s extraordinary gifts were also chronicled in the documentary Just Normal produced by Kim A. Snyder, and in Andrew Solomon’s book, Far From the Tree, which featured case studies of exceptional children. An avid traveler, Petersen’s emerging career frequently takes him abroad, where he sets out to discover new foods and meet locals as eagerly as he performs for new audiences.
Overseas engagements have included recitals at the Musica e Arte Festival in Tolentino, Italy; Verbier Festival in Verbier, Switzerland; Euro Arts Music Festival in Leipzig, Germany; and American Spring Festival of the Czech Republic.
Petersen graduated cum laude from Harvard at age 19 with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Social Science and did his undergraduate and graduate music studies at the Juilliard School, the former as a recipient of the prestigious Kovner Fellowship. He has recently been accepted into the Artist Diploma program at the Juilliard School. He is managed by Opus 3 Artists. Learn more at drewpetersenpiano.com.
