DEREK HARTMAN – UNITED STATES (27)

Pianist Derek Hartman has established an international career as a versatile performer, a dedicated educator, and an enthusiastic advocate for music. He has performed on stages across the United States and Europe, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Milwaukee, WI, and the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, FL. Hartman has appeared as a soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Clara Schumann Philharmonic, and he has received top prizes in the Washington International Piano Competition, the Chicago International Piano Competition, the PianoArts North American Piano Competition, and the Music Teachers’ National Association Young Artist Piano Competition.  

An avid chamber musician, Hartman has collaborated with such internationally renowned artists as the Amernet Quartet, violist Jordan Bak, and flutist András Adorján, and he is a regular Faculty-Artist of the ContemporArt Chamber Music Festival in Satu Mare, Romania.  

Hartman is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the Yale School of Music. He received his Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University; his teachers include Boris Slutsky, Dr. James Giles, Dr. Paul Wirth, and Dr. Sarah Miller. In 2024, Hartman was appointed Lecturer of Piano at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. He is an active member of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy, and he frequently collaborates with PianoArts of Wisconsin to design and present music education programs.