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Dean Kramer
(541) 346-3779
dkramer@uoregon.edu

Dean Kramer is associate professor of piano. He has been at the University of Oregon since 1983.

Kramer received the B.Mus. degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the M.Mus. and D.M.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. He studied with Vladimir Horowitz through the Mannes School in New York, Adele Marcus at Juilliard, and with John Perry at the University of Texas/Austin. He has also been coached by Artur Rubinstein, Gina Bachauer, Leon Fleisher, and Eugene List.

Prior to his appointment to the UO School of Music faculty, Kramer taught at the Oberlin Conservatory and at the Aspen Music Festival as John Perry's assistant.

Kramer has appeared as piano soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Boise Symphony, the Eugene Symphony, the Oregon Mozart Players, and orchestras in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland; Bucharest, Rumania; and Cairo, Egypt. He has appeared in recital in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Miami, Minneapolis, Detroit, Phoenix, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Seattle, and Eugene, as well as cities in Poland, France, Hungary, Malta, Egypt, Finland, and Cyprus.

In 1984 Kramer was chosen as one of four pianists to tour abroad under the U.S. Information Agency's “Cultural Ambassador” program. He received first prizes in the first American Chopin Competition in Miami (1975); the Washington International Competition in Washington, DC (1973); the American Music Scholarship Competition in Cincinnati (1973); and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition in New York (1972). He has also received laureate honors in the Three Rivers Piano Competition in Pittsburgh (1980) and was one of the few American pianists to have received laureate honors in the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland (1975).

During the fall of 1993, Kramer was a resident artist at the Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada. In 1997 he was featured with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra on the "Nerve Endings" series, with Murry Sidlin conducting.