Douglas Weeks
Chair of Performance, Babcock Professor of Piano
DM Florida State University
Licensé de Concert, Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris
MM Indiana
BM Illinois State University
doug.weeks@converse.edu
864-596-9006
Blackman Music Hall, Room 205

Douglas Weeks performs Chaconne in D Minor by Bach/Busoni

Douglas Weeks is the Chair of Performance and Babcock Professor of Piano. During the summers, he coordinates Piano Studies at the Brevard Music Festival in the NC mountains. He has performed throughout the Southeastern US both as soloist and as a member of the Converse Trio. He has also performed and taught in twelve countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia under sponsorship of the US Information Agency. In spring 1999, Dr. Weeks taught for four months at the Conservatory of Music, Cairo, Egypt, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. Most recently, he has performed as soloist with the Spartanburg and Greenville, SC, Symphonies, the Winterthur (Switzerland) Symphony, and in Panama City, Panama, with the Converse Trio. 

A prize winner in the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition, Dr. Weeks competed in the VI International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He is a National Patron of Delta Omicron Music Honorary Fraternity and a two-time recipient of the SC Arts Commission's Artist Fellowship in Music. He has been awarded the Kathryne Amelia Brown Award at Converse College for excellence in teaching and a SC Commission on Higher Education's Distinguished Professor Award. His articles have appeared in Clavier and in the on-line journal, Piano Pedagogy Forum. 

Douglas Weeks holds a B.M. from Illinois State University, a M.M., with a Performer's Certificate, from Indiana University, a D.M. from Florida State University, and a License de Concert from the Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris, France. His teachers include Abbey Simon, Jack Radunsky, Edward Kilenyi, Tong Il Han, Rosina Lhevinne, and Maria Curcio Diamand.

Excerpts from performance reviews follow below --

Lowell Liebermann Piano Concerto No. 2 (Winterthur Symphony, Conductor Michael Christie): "Douglas Weeks took on seemingly effortlessly and in a masterful fashion the enormous demands the piece made on the pianist" (Der Landbote,11/2/01).

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (Greenville Symphony, Conductor Edvard Tchivzhel): "He displayed a pianistic arsenal to make child's play of the concerto's technical challenges . . . From the first note of the stormy orchestral exposition to the joyous coda, Weeks' control was total. Soloist, conductor and orchestra mined all the jewels from this imposing work. Weeks' performance was much appreciated by his audience" (Greenville News, 10/8/00).