Kevin Sharpe (pianist)

Kevin Sharpe is an American pianist and music educator.

Sharpe began his pianist training at the Newark School of the Arts at the age of twelve and continued with Frances Walker at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music . After earning a bachelor's degree there, he earned a master's and doctorate degree from Indiana University under the direction of Menahem Pressler .

The prizes that Sharpe won include the Rudolph Serkin Prize of Oberlin College and the first prize of the 1991 Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition in Washington. He was also a winner of the National Association of Negro Musicians Competition and the National Young Artists Piano Competition . Since then Sharpe has performed as a pianist in the USA, but also in Mexico, Iceland, Finland, Argentina, Hong Kong and the Czech Republic. His interpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations received much attention and was praised by Bernard Holland , the music critic of the New York Times . A CD with recordings of works by Respighi , Samuel Coleridge-Taylor , Mendelssohn and Ravel was released on the Eroica label . Sharpe teaches piano and chamber music at the University of Florida . In 2000 he received the Teacher of the Year Award here .

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• Eroica Classical Recordings - Kevin Sharpe
• University of Florida College of Fine Arts - Kevin Sharpe