Brad Blackham

An avid promoter of new music, pianist Brad Blackham has been involved in a number of commissions and premieres, including works by John Adams, Terry Vosbein, Alex Freeman, and Mathew Fuerst.

 

He has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Het Concertgebouw, Wiener Musikverein, The Barbican Centre, Severance Hall, and Heinz Hall, and numerous other venues throughout the United States and Canada, including an Australian tour with Canadian violinist Jasper Wood. Brad has performed under the batons of a long list of esteemed conductors, including Christoph von Dohnányi, Franz Welser-Möst, Alan Gilbert, Mariss Jansons, Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, David Robertson, Gareth Morrell, Gerhardt Zimmermann, and many others.

 

An active soloist and collaborator, he is a member of three musical duos: the piano/percussion duo ReadyGO with percussionist and colleague Stacey Jones-Garrison, The Toledo War with Cleveland Orchestra cellist Alan Harrell, and Duo Azalea with his wife, soprano Kristi Matson.

 

Brad Blackham has been Artist/Teacher of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at Hillsdale College since 2005. He has remained active also as an adjudicator for many festivals and competitions throughout Michigan and other parts of the country.

 

Brad studied at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory with Robert Mayerovitch, the Cleveland Institute of Music with Anne Epperson and Joela Jones, and at The Ohio State University with Steven Glaser.