Bryan Wallick is gaining recognition as one of the great American virtuoso pianists of his generation. Gold medalist of the 1997 Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition in Kiev, he has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa.
Mr. Wallick made his New York recital debut in 1998 at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and his Wigmore Hall debut in London in 2003. He has performed at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall with the London Sinfonietta, and at the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church with the London Soloist’s Chamber Orchestra. In recent seasons, Mr. Wallick has performed with the Arizona Musicfest All-Star Orchestra, Brevard Symphony, Cape Town Philharmonic, Cincinnati Pops, Illinois Philharmonic, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Kentucky Symphony, Kwa-Zulu Natal Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Portland Symphony, and more. He has performed dozens of recitals, including those at the Chateau Differdange in Luxembourg, Tivoli Artists Series in Copenhagen, Grand Teton Music Festival, Xavier Piano Series (Cincinnati), Ravinia Festival, Sanibel Island Music Festival, and the Classics in the Atrium Series in the British Virgin Islands. In 2002, Mr. Wallick gave solo performances at Ledreborg Palace for HRH Princess Marie Gabrielle Luxembourg, and HRH Prince Philip Bourbon de Parme.
Mr. Wallick is an avid chamber music player and has performed with violinists Yi-Jia Susanne Hou, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, Rachel Lee Priday, Miriam Contzen, Sergei Malov and cellists Zuill Bailey, Alexander Buzlov, Alexander Ramm and Wolfgang Emmanuel Schmidt. He is the artistic director of Schalk Visser/Bryan Wallick Concert Promotions, which hosts international musicians touring South Africa. Mr. Wallick was a guest soloist at the 2019 International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival, U.S.A. in Colorado, and was also a judge for the Olga Kern International Piano Competition in Albuquerque, New Mexico the same year.
Bryan Wallick’s live radio appearances include the BBC’s "In Tune," National Ukrainian Television and Radio, Danish National Radio, and NPR's "Performance Today." During the COVID-19 lockdown, he recorded the Beethoven Triple Concerto Op. 56 (trio version) with violinist Frank Stadler (Austria), and Peter Martens (South Africa) in an inter-continental virtual collaboration, which won the KykNet Fiesta Award for Best Achievement in Classical Music for South Africa 2020.
In 2006, Mr. Wallick was given a grant by the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts to explore his synesthetic realities in a multimedia project that allows the audience to see the colors he experiences while performing. Synesthesia is the ability to experience two or more sensory experiences with one stimulus. Mr. Wallick sees colors with each musical pitch and has created a computer program that projects images of his colored visions to the audience.
Mr. Wallick studied with Jerome Lowenthal in New York City where he was the first Juilliard School graduate to receive both an undergraduate Honors Diploma (2000) and an accelerated master's Degree (2001). He continued his studies with Christopher Elton in London at the Royal Academy of Music where he was the recipient of the Associated Board International Scholarship, receiving a Post-graduate Diploma with Distinction, and previously studied with Eugene and Elisabeth Pridonoff at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Mr. Wallick has recently been appointed as professor of piano at Colorado State University where he lives with his wife and three children.