Since winning the gold medal at the first Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Douglas Humpherys’ concert career has spanned four decades across four continents. Currently listed as a Steinway Artist, he has performed solo concerts and taught master classes throughout Asia, including twenty tours of China, plus engagements in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea.
He has taught master classes at the Central Music School of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, with concerts in Moscow, Novgorod, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Barcelona, Venice, Dublin, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, and Serbia. He has performed throughout the United States and Canada at numerous universities and festivals. Recently, he was a guest artist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and performed on the DiMenna Center Concert Series in New York City. He has concertized and taught in Argentina with Teachers del Norte-Pianists del Sur, a project sponsored by the U.S. Embassy.
Mr. Humpherys completed graduate degrees at the Juilliard School (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (DMA), where he served for twenty years as Chair of the Piano Department, and is currently Professor of Piano. During his student days he studied with Nelita True, Martin Canin, and Robert Smith.
His students have won prizes at among others, the Honens, Cleveland, Virginia Waring, Hilton Head, Washington DC, Poulenc, UNISA, and Sussex (UK) International Piano Competitions, as well as five national first-prize winners of MTNA Competitions. In 2016, Professor Humpherys received Eastman’s Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2021 he was inducted into the Steinway and Sons National Teachers Hall of Fame.
He is Artistic Director and Jury Chair of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and has been a faculty member at the Bowdoin, Beijing, Shanghai, Gijon, and Rebecca Penneys International Piano Festivals, as well as the Philadelphia Young Pianists Academy, and the Washington DC, Interlochen, Atlantic, Northern Lights, and North Coast Festivals.