David Deveau

Deveau was a 2014 Recipient of the SHASS Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching, an award proposed by MIT students to honor a transformative instructor. He also taught in the piano departments of Carnegie Mellon and Boston Universities.

For the past five decades, Deveau has performed extensively on four continents. He has appeared as guest soloist with the Boston, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Miami, Pacific and Portland Symphonies, and abroad with l’Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, France and the Qingdao Symphony in China. Among the conductors with whom Deveau collaborated are Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, John Williams, Keith Lockhart, Jose Serebrier and Joseph Silverstein. He has also appeared as soloist with the composer-conductors Gunther Schuller, Oliver Knussen and John Harbison. At MIT, he was a featured soloist with three successive MITSO music directors: David Epstein, Dante Anzolini and Adam Boyles.

David Deveau has performed myriad solo and chamber music concerts throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. Performances on major US concert series include Carnegie, Alice Tully, Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC; Washington’s Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection; Benaroya Hall in Seattle; Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, and at Boston’s Symphony and Jordan Halls. He made two tours of mainland China, first in 2005 where he appeared in recital in Zhong Shan Hall in Beijing’s Forbidden City and in Qingdao. In 2010 he made a second tour including a recital in Shanghai under the auspices of the Shanghai Theater Academy. In 2012, he made a tour of Taiwan, with concerts in Taipei and Tainan, where he also taught and lectured at the Tainan National University of the Arts. In 2014, he made his first concert tour of Japan, highlighted by a recital in Nagoya with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. Deveau’s extensive chamber music collaborations include concerts with members of the Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Ying, Vermeer, Shanghai, Borromeo, Brentano, and Jupiter string quartets, and with members of the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.  His many festival appearances include Wolf Trap, La Jolla, Prussia Cove (UK), Mainly Mozart (San Diego), and the Minnesota Orchestra’s Sommerfest. He served as Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Rockport Chamber Music Festival (later Rockport Music) from 1995 until 2017, growing the festival from a month-long event in June to a year-round presenting organization. (www.rcmf.org) and presided over the planning and opening of the Shalin Liu Performance Center which opened in 2010 to great acclaim in the national press, including a feature story in the New York Times.