JOHN HILLEBRANDT's numerous and highly
acclaimed performances each season include solo recitals, chamber music,
concertos, and original compositions. He has a B.A. degree in music from the
University of Central Florida, and M.M. and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees in
piano performance from the University of Michigan. Dr. Hillebrandt has received many honors as both a pianist and composer, including first prize in the Florida West Coast Chopin Piano Competition and first prize in the American Matthay Association's Clara Wells Memorial Piano Competition. As a doctoral student he received a dissertation grant for the composition and performance of microtonal piano music, and won the University of Michigan's concerto competition for which he composed and performed his First Piano Concerto.
Dr. Hillebrandt is a Lecturer and Staff Accompanist at California State University, Stanislaus, and has been pianist for the Modesto Symphony Orchestra since 1996, where he was recently featured as soloist in Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals and Stravinsky's Petrouchka. Dr. Hillebrandt is also much in demand as a private piano and composition teacher; he has taught many award-winning students, and spent two summers teaching at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.
