Corbin Beisner

Corbin Beisner was born in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1988. He started playing the piano at age five and shortly thereafter began studying jazz with Rick DeBella. At age 12, Corbin began studying classical piano, and also became interested in composition. His principle teachers in adolescence were Roger Bushell and Ekaterina Melkamini.

He has attended summer music festivals at Interlochen, Michigan, the Mannes School of Music in New York City, and most recently the Forum Internacional de Musica in Barcelona, Spain and the Lake Como Summer Piano Academy in Lake Como, Italy. He has won numerous awards at competitions including: the MTNA state competition, the International Liszt Competition in Asuza, California, the Liberace play-alike competition and the Premier Prize in the Forum Internacional de Musica competition.

Mr. Beisner has also studied intermittently and participated in various classes with teachers such as Mykola Suk, Daniel Pollack, Leslie Howard, Fabio Bidini, William Grant Nabore and Stanislav Ioudenitch. He is currently studying with Luiz de Moura Castro at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut.

His 2007 appearances include a January performance as the featured pianist with the Las Vegas, Nevada Philharmonic Orchestra. In November he will present a solo recital in Barcelona, Spain. Mr. Beisner continues to perform, compose and improvise, and plans on being a touring composer-pianist in the near future.