Bryan W. Boyce
Bryan W. Boyce
Assistant Professor
(716) 878-4100
Campus Address: Rockwell Hall 104
boycebw@buffalostate.edu
D.M.A., Eastman School of Music
M.M., Bowling Green State University
B.M.E., University of North Texas
Bryan Boyce has appeared as soloist, collaborator, duo-pianist, and lecturer throughout the United States and China. He currently serves as assistant professor of piano at Buffalo State College where he teaches piano, class piano, and accompanying. Dr. Boyce has previously been a member of the piano faculties of the Eastman Community Music School in Rochester, NY, the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, and the Bowling Green State University Summer Music Institute. He serves as the State Competitions Chair and Chairman of District X for the New York State Music Teachers Association. Other organizations in which he is active include the College Music Society, the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Music Forum for Piano Teachers, and the Music Teachers National Association.
As a staunch advocate for the creation and performance of new music, Dr. Boyce has collaborated with composers from throughout North America. These commissions have lead to the world premieres of more than a dozen solo and chamber works written for and dedicated to him. Current projects include recordings of solo and chamber works by the award-winning American composer, Kevin McGregor Salfen.
Aside from maintaining a regular performance schedule, he has presented lecture recitals on the piano music of Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Antonio Soler, and Karol Szymanowski. Other areas of current research include group and private piano pedagogy, and choral and instrumental score reading.
Originally from Dallas, he holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and literature from The Eastman School, a master’s degree in piano performance and pedagogy from Bowling Green State University and bachelor’s degrees in piano performance and music education from the University of North Texas. While at Eastman he served as both the studio assistant to Professor Thomas Schumacher of the piano faculty and as a class piano teaching assistant.
