Douglas Weeks

Douglas Weeks
Babcock Professor of Piano
  • BM, Illinois State University
  • MM, Indiana University
  • Licensé de Concert, Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris
  • DM, Florida State University
Office: Blackman Music Hall, Room 205
Phone: 864.596.9006

Douglas Weeks performs Chaconne in D Minor by Bach/Busoni

Babcock Professor of Piano, Douglas Weeks has also coordinated piano studies at the Brevard Music Festival in Brevard, NC since the summer of 1987. He has performed throughout the Southeastern US and in Panama, Switzerland and Puerto Rico both as soloist and as a member of the Converse Trio. He has also performed and taught in thirteen countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia under sponsorship of the US Information Agency. In the spring of 1999, Dr. Weeks taught for four months at the Conservatory of Music, Cairo, Egypt, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He returned to Egypt in 2005 to teach at Cairo's Helwan University.

A prize-winner in the Robert Casadesus (now Cleveland) International Piano Competition, Dr. Weeks also competed in the VI International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He is a National Patron of Delta Omicron Music Honorary Fraternity and a two-time recipient of the SC Arts Commission's Artist Fellowship in Music. He has been awarded the Kathryne Amelia Brown Award for excellence in teaching at Converse College and a SC Commission on Higher Education's Distinguished Professor Award. His articles have appeared in Clavier and in the on-line journal, Piano Pedagogy Forum.

Douglas Weeks holds the Bachelor of Music degree from Illinois State University, the Master of Music degree and a Performer's Certificate from Indiana University, the Doctor of Music degree from Florida State University, and a License de Concert from the Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris, France. His teachers include Abbey Simon, Jack Radunsky, Edward Kilenyi, Tong Il Han, Rosina Lhevinne, and Maria Curcio Diamand.

Excerpts from performance reviews:

Lowell Liebermann Piano Concerto No. 2 (Winterthur Symphony, Conductor Michael Christie): “Douglas Weeks took on seemingly effortlessly and in a masterful fashion the enormous demands the piece made on the pianist” (Der Landbote).

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (Greenville Symphony, Conductor Edvard Tchivzhel): “He displayed a pianistic arsenal to make child's play of the concerto's technical challenges. From the first note of the stormy orchestral exposition to the joyous coda, Weeks’ control was total. Soloist, conductor and orchestra mined all the jewels from this imposing work. Weeks’ performance was much appreciated by his audience” (Greenville News).