Omri Shimron is a pianist and educator based in Oakland, California. His career combines teaching at the collegiate and pre-collegiate levels, performances as solo and collaborative pianist, lectures and lecture-recitals, adjudication, and leadership roles in professional organizations.
At Cal State East Bay (Hayward) he is an Associate Professor of Music and Piano Area Coordinator at the Department of Music, where he teaches applied piano, group piano, piano ensemble and other courses. His CSUEB piano students come from diverse backgrounds, including a large group from South China Normal University.
Outside higher-ed he maintains a private teaching studio (virtual and and in-person), and holds leadership positions for the California Association for Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) — as co-president of the San Francisco/East Bay chapter, Concerto Chair (NorCal) and state board member at-large (North). Shimron is also in demand as an adjudicator for Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC), the American Beethoven Society, the SoCal International Piano Competition, and others.
Throughout his career, Shimron has presented many lecture-recitals for such organizations as the College Music Society, Performing Indeterminacy, and at many colleges and universities, including Duke, Virginia Tech, Arizona State, Elon University, and others. His topics range from C. Ph. E Bach’s keyboard music to Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrushka and Chen Yi’s Ba Ban. He has worked closely with living composers and premiered several works by Christopher Dietz, Marco Alunno, Ben Hackbarth, and Christopher Brackel.
Shimron’s debut solo CD, Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, 36 Variations on ‘¡EI Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!’ was released on New Focus Recordings in 2014. Click here for the New Focus download page, which includes audio samples, liner notes, and credits. The CD is available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon, and as a free stream on Spotify.
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