Geoffrey Burleson is Professor of Music at Hunter College-City University of New York, and is additionally on the piano faculty of Princeton University. Current recording/research projects include Camille Saint-Saëns: Complete Piano Works, on 5 CDs, for the Naxos Grand Piano label. Volumes 1 (Complete Piano Études), 2, 3 and 4 have been released to high acclaim from Gramophone, International Record Review, Diapason (France) and elsewhere, and have garnered International Piano Choice Awards from International Piano Magazine. Volume 5, to be released in 2018, will feature unpublished works that Prof. Burleson obtained from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Other noteworthy recordings include AKOKA (Oxingale), featuring Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, which received a 2015 JUNO Award nomination.
Contact : geoffrey.burleson@hunter.cuny.edu
Séance - French Music (I): Fauré and Saint-Saëns 2.C.3 : Proto-Impressionism in Piano Works of Camille Saint-Saëns
