Since winning the gold medal at the first Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Douglas Humpherys’ concert career has spanned four decades across four continents. Currently listed as a Steinway Artist, he has performed solo concerts and taught master classes throughout Asia, including twenty tours of China, plus engagements in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea.
He has presented solo concerts in Moscow, Novgorod, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Barcelona, Venice, Dublin, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, Serbia, and has performed throughout the United States and Canada at numerous universities and festivals. Most recently, he was a guest artist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and at the DiMenna Center Concert Series in New York City. He has concertized and taught in Argentina with Teachers del Norte-Pianists del Sur, a project sponsored in-part by the U.S. Embassy.
Mr. Humpherys completed graduate degrees at the Juilliard School (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (DMA), where he served for twenty years as Chair of the Piano Department, and is currently Professor of Piano. During his student days he studied with Nelita True, Martin Canin, and Robert Smith.
In high demand as a teacher, he has taught hundreds of master classes, including the Central Music School of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, throughout the Chinese Conservatory system, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Korean National School of the Arts, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
His students have won prizes at among others, the Honens, Cleveland, Maria Canals, Scottish, Olga Kern, Virginia Waring, Hilton Head, Washington DC, Poulenc, UNISA, and Sussex (UK) International Piano Competitions, as well as five national first-prize winners of MTNA Competitions in the United States. In 2016, Professor Humpherys received Eastman’s Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2021 he was inducted into the Steinway and Sons National Teachers Hall of Fame.
Currently, he is Artistic Director and Jury Chair of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. He has been a guest artist and faculty member at the Beijing, Shanghai, Gijon (Spain), Wallace (New Zealand), Bowdoin, and Rebecca Penneys International Piano Festivals. He has also performed and taught at the Philadelphia Young Pianists Academy, the Miami, Washington DC, Interlochen, Atlantic, Northern Lights, and North Coast, Music Festivals.
