Robert Wyatt

Piano

Steinway Artist Robert Wyatt has performed throughout the United States and internationally, gathering critical acclaim for sensitive and colorful solo, orchestral and chamber music recitals. Featured on NPR and PBS broadcasts, Mr. Wyatt has also performed at the Kennedy Center, The Phillips Collection, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the 92nd Street Y and Steinway Hall in New York, and Boston’s Jordan Hall and the Museum of Fine Arts.He has been a lecture/recitalist for the Smithsonian Institution for thirty years and served as an exhibition artist for their Piano 300 exhibition in 2000. As a Smithsonian Scholar, Mr. Wyatt has presented musical programs in school systems under the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation.In 1987, Wyatt discovered several unpublished piano preludes by George Gershwin, and in the ensuing years has pursued research that has established him as one of the nation's foremost Gershwin scholars. His book, The George Gershwin Reader, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004