University of Minnesota School of Music

Timothy Lovelace

Associate Professor: Collaborative Piano / Coaching

240 Ferguson Hall
612/624-0560
E-mail: lovelace@umn.edu

Timothy Lovelace is Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano and Coaching at the University of Minnesota. He is a former Assistant Professor of Accompanying at The University of Texas at Austin. His principal teachers were Harold Evans, Gilbert Kalish, Donna Loewy and Frank Weinstock.

Active as a soloist, conductor and continuo player, Lovelace most often collaborates as a chamber music pianist and art song partner. The roster of internationally-known artists with whom he has appeared includes Lisa Batiashvili, Helen Callus, John Cerminaro, Miriam Fried, Alban Gerhardt, Christine Goerke, Emma Johnson, Katalin Károlyi, Pekka Kuusisto, Joe Lovano, Robert Mann, Charles Neidich, Paul Neubauer, Ruth Palmer, Hila Plitmann, Lawrence Power, Paquito D’Rivera and Fred Sherry; he has also concertized with the Bergen Woodwind Quintet and Pacifica String Quartet. For thirteen years, Lovelace was a staff pianist at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute, where he played in the classes of Barbara Bonney, Christoph Eschenbach, Thomas Hampson, Christa Ludwig and Yo-Yo Ma, among others.

In 2008 Lovelace appeared in recital at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall with violinist Ayano Ninomiya, and was hailed as “a splendid partner” by New York Concert Review Inc. He has also been featured at Rio de Janeiro’s Sala Cecilia Meireles, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Philadelphia’s Trinity Center, Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts and on chamber music series sponsored by the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minnesota and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. His 2003 performances of the complete Bach Brandenburg Concerti with the Chamber Soloists of Austin “provided the most astonishing individual playing of the evening,” according to the Austin-American Statesman.

A proponent of new music, Lovelace has performed under the supervision of composers Elliott Carter, John Corigliano, Andrew Imbrie, Leon Kirchner, Lowell Liebermann, Thea Musgrave, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, David Evan Thomas, Dan Welcher and Judith Zaimont, and he presented the world premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Third World.

“The superb collaborations of pianist Timothy Lovelace can’t be understated,” wrote Gramophone magazine in praise of Forgotten Romance, one of two Lovelace recordings on the Albany label. The American Record Guide declared his performance of Loeffler’s Rhapsodies on the Boston Records CD …is but a dream “the very best I have ever heard. Anyone wanting a definitive modern recording of this work need look no further.”