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David Forbat
dforbat@ucok.edu
In recent years, pianist David Forbat has emerged as an extremely versatile musician with strengths as a solo performer, chamber musician, educator, clinician, and advocate for community arts initiatives. He received his D.M.A. in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore and has since held teaching appointments at various colleges and universities. These have included full-time appointments to the faculties of Geneva College (PA) and William Carey College (MS), and part-time appointments to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University (PA). He also has taught pre-college piano and theory in the highly esteemed preparatory programs at Peabody and Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Music at the University of Central Oklahoma (Edmond, OK) where he teaches applied piano, directs the piano ensemble, and is developing an innovative class piano curriculum in conjunction with the other members of the UCO keyboard faculty.
The artist teachers under whom he has studied have included John Perry at the University of Southern California, Frank Weinstock at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, and Ann Schein at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He has also studied with Claude Frank at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. During high school, Audley Wasson (a student of Rudolf Ganz), and Samuel Hsu (a student of Mme. Rosina Lhevinne) shaped his development as an artist.
In addition to appearing on standard recital and concerto performance venues, he has also enjoyed presenting informative and cross-disciplinary recital programs called “informances.” Programs of this nature have been entitled “Liszt and the Italian Poets,” “The French Connection,” and “Schumann’s Carnaval, Op. 9.”