Geoffrey Duce

Geoffrey Duce’s career has featured both solo and collaborative performances: As a concerto soloist, he has appeared with the Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Edinburgh Philharmonic, New York Sinfonietta, and so on. He was the Peoria Symphony Orchestra’s first Artist in Residence for the 2018-19 season, including performances of concertos by Mendelssohn, MacDowell, and Duke Ellington. As a chamber musician and accompanist, he has recorded for BBC Radio 3 and performed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He won the Young Artists Award from Britain’s National Federation of Music Societies and was awarded the Prix de Piano at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France.

He has given masterclasses at institutions including Hawaii University, Shorter and Darton Colleges, Georgia, for the Orquesta Filharmónica in Bogota, Colombia, at the City of Edinburgh Music School, and so on. He has also served on the faculty of the Chicago Chamber Music Festival.

Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, Geoffrey initially studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and Manchester University before receiving a DAAD scholarship to the Universität der Künste, Berlin. He received his doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music, where he was also a faculty member and has previously held positions at the State University of New York (Westchester Community College) and at Indiana University South Bend. Currently, he serves on the faculty as Assistant Professor of Piano at Illinois State University.