About
Stuart Deaver began playing the piano at age 11. By the age of 16, he was the first-place winner of the Tulsa Philharmonic’s Young Artist Competition. He has since won numerous awards and has performed across the United States as well as international performances in Portugal.
As researcher, he has presented papers internationally for the International Musicological Society in Stavanger, Norway, and the first joint-congress of the German Society for Music Theory and German Society for Popular Music Studies at the University of Music of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.
Deaver is an applied assistant professor of piano and coordinator of Piano Studies at The University of Tulsa. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kansas where he studied with Sequeira Costa.
Education
- DMA, The University of Kansas
Dissertation: “The Minimalist Piano Works of John Adams: Towards the Development of an Informed Listening Strategy” - M.M., Oklahoma City University
Dissertation: “A Comparative Analysis of the Original and Revised Versions of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36” - B.M., Oklahoma City University
Research interest and areas of expertise
- Creative implementation of the sostenuto pedal
- Production as musical parameters
- Popular music research