Expired Schimmel Showcase: Greg Presley

Friday, August 2, 2024
11:00am-12:00pm

Featuring classical repertoire from Bach to Chopin, Ravel to Kapustin, Greg Presley presents a wide variety of works – familiar and new. He teaches piano at Gonzaga University, performs as a soloist nation-wide. Mr. Presley actively supports and participates several state and national music education associations.

Mr. Presley was a student of the nationally recognized piano teacher Margaret Ott, as well as Arlene Portney, Donald Currier, and Josef Raieff. He won many Northwestern local awards, including the Young Artist Award of the Spokane Allied Arts Festival and awards at the Seattle Music Festival, in addition to winning the state and Northwest divisions of the MTNA High School Piano Competition and the Yale Concerto Competition.

Mr. Presley has appeared as soloist with the Spokane Symphony, the Washington-Idaho Symphony, and the Yale Symphony and performed many concertos with the Spokane Opera Orchestra. He frequently performs two-piano and chamber music works, including recent seasons collaborating with Zuill Bailey and Connoisseur Concerts and has also appeared with Thomas Hampson and Christopher O’Riley in concert. He is principal keyboard player for the Spokane Symphony. He had a long career in modern dance music collaboration, worked closely for several years with Martha Graham, including playing Primitive Mysteries at her memorial service at City Center in NYC, and was a tenured member of the dance faculty at Florida State University before returning to Spokane. 

He has been a member of the piano faculty at Gonzaga University since the Fall of 2001. He has had a number of successful prize-winning students who have gone on to careers in music.

He has presented numerous sessions at WSMTA conferences and district workshops around the Northwest as well as a popular session with Nancy Breth at the MTNA national conference in 2019.

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