BRYAN WALLICK
Biography
Bryan Wallick is increasingly recognized as one of the foremost American virtuoso pianists of his generation. A gold medalist of the 1997 Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition in Kyiv, he has performed extensively across the United States, Europe, and Africa.
Mr. Wallick made his New York debut in 1998 at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and his London debut in 2003 at Wigmore Hall. He has also appeared at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall with the London Sinfonietta, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and most recently made his debut at the city’s newly opened Bechstein Hall in March 2025.
In recent seasons, he has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Arizona Musicfest Orchestra, Boise Philharmonic, Boulder Symphony, Brevard Symphony, Cape Town Philharmonic, Cincinnati Pops, Evansville Philharmonic, Fort Collins Symphony, Illinois Philharmonic, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Kentucky Symphony, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Portland Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Western Piedmont Symphony, and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. His collaborations have included such conductors as Erich Kunzel, Marvin Hamlisch, Robert Moody, Daniel Raiskin, Bernhard Gueller, Adrian Prabava, Daniel Boico, Arjen Tien, Yasuo Shinozaki, Andrew Sewell, Vladimir Verbitsky, Josep Vicent, Leslie Dunner, Alfred Savia, Christopher Confessore, Matthew Troy, and Wes Kenney, among others.
Mr. Wallick’s recital appearances have taken him to the Château de Differdange in Luxembourg, Copenhagen’s Tivoli Artists Series, the Ravinia Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Xavier Piano Series (Cincinnati), Scottsdale Center’s Virginia Piper Series, Sanibel Island Music Festival, Cleveland Museum of Art’s Tri-C Classical Series, and the Classics in the Atrium Series in the British Virgin Islands. In 2002, he performed two solo recitals at Ledreborg Palace for HRH Princess Marie Gabrielle Luxembourg and HRH Prince Philip Bourbon de Parme.
An avid chamber musician, Mr. Wallick has collaborated with violinists Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, Rachel Lee Priday, Yi-Jia Susanne Hou, Miriam Contzen, and Sergei Malov, as well as cellists Zuill Bailey, Alexander Buzlov, Alexander Ramm, and Wolfgang Emmanuel Schmidt. He is a member of the Mendelssohn Trio, ensemble-in-residence at Colorado State University, which will embark on a European tour in May 2026 with performances in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany.
From 2015 to 2020, Mr. Wallick served as Artistic Director of Schalk Visser Concert Promotions, presenting international artists on concert tours throughout South Africa. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he collaborated virtually across three continents with violinist Frank Stadler (Austria) and cellist Peter Martens (South Africa) to record Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, Op. 56 (Trio Version), which received South Africa’s 2020 KykNet Fiesta Award for Best Achievement in Classical Music. He is also actively involved in the International Keyboard Odyssiad and Summer Festival in Colorado, where he performs, lectures, and teaches, and is on the faculty of the Rocky Ridge Summer Festival in Estes Park, Colorado.
Recent highlights include performances with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Brevard Symphony, Boulder Symphony, Cape Town Philharmonic, Fort Collins Symphony, Johannesburg Philharmonic, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, and Western Piedmont Symphony. His recital project Virtuosic Fugue has been presented at the Grand Teton Music Festival, University of Texas (El Paso), Las Cruces (New Mexico), Scottsdale Center, Ravinia Festival, Xavier Piano Series, Cleveland Museum of Art, and throughout South Africa. He recorded Virtuosic Fugue, Vol. 1 for Navona Records in July 2023 and will release an album of Franz Liszt’s piano music in spring 2026. His chamber performances have included collaborations with Zuill Bailey for Chamber Music Detroit, the Library of Congress, Juneau Jazz and Classics and Sitka Music Festival; with Rachel Lee Priday at the University of Washington and Colorado State’s Classical Convergence Series; and at the Chintimini Chamber Music Festival in Oregon.
Mr. Wallick has performed on Chicago’s WFMT Fazioli Series and “Live from WFMT,” BBC Radio’s In Tune, Danish National Radio, National Ukrainian Television and Radio, Colorado Public Radio, and NPR’s Performance Today. In 2006, he was awarded a grant by the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts to develop a multimedia project exploring his synesthetic experiences—his ability to perceive specific colors associated with musical pitches—by projecting these color mappings in real time during performance.
A native of the United States, Mr. Wallick studied with Jerome Lowenthal at The Juilliard School, where he became the first student to earn both an undergraduate Honors Diploma (2000) and an accelerated master’s degree (2001). He continued his studies with Christopher Elton at London’s Royal Academy of Music, receiving the Associated Board International Scholarship and graduating with Distinction. Earlier studies were with Eugene and Elisabeth Pridonoff at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Mr. Wallick is Associate Professor of Piano at Colorado State University, where he resides with his wife and three children. A feature article by George Plimpton on his early career appeared in the March 2002 issue of Contents magazine.