Deborah Cleaver

Piano 

Email: jdcleaver@comcast.net

Deborah Ingram Cleaver holds a Bachelor of Music degree cum laude, from Meredith College, where she won the first prize in the Southeast Regional SAI Competition, and the Agnes Cooper Memorial Award; and a Master of Music degree in piano performance from Boston University School for the Arts, where she studied with the renowned pianist and pedagogue Leonard Shure. After finishing her degree, it was her great honor to work closely with Shure as his teaching assistant at New England Conservatory.

 

Ms. Cleaver has also spent many years studying the performance practice of the Baroque and Classic periods with such luminaries as Sandra Rosenblum, Edward Parmentier, and Elisabeth Wright. Her broad interests have resulted in lectures for universities and music teachers’ organizations throughout the Northwest, ranging from the expressive aspects of Baroque performance practice to the correlation between Romantic literature and music.

 

In addition to teaching at Lewis and Clark, she teaches at Reed College as well as in her private studio. She also organizes Golandsky Institute seminars three times each year for the Portland/Golandsky Institute community, and is chairman of the Oregon Music Teachers’ Association Baroque Festival. Ms. Cleaver has also served on an advisory committee for the Oregon Junior Bach Festival, and is a frequent adjudicator and master class clinician throughout the Northwest.

 

Other teaching positions have included Willamette University, the South Shore Conservatory, St. Andrews College, and the Golandsky Institute summer program at Princeton University.

 

An avid performer, she has appeared with the FEAR NO MUSIC ENSEMBLE, the DeRosa Chamber Players, and has had performances aired on the classical music program PLAYED IN OREGON.