Dr. Owen C. Lovell

Assistant Professor of Music

D.M.A., University of Texas at Austin
M.M., B.M., Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University

Academic Areas: applied piano, class piano.

Dr. Owen C. Lovell
259 Haas Fine Arts Center
Music & Theatre Arts Department
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004

Phone: 715/836-2159
Email: lovelloc@uwec.edu

Pianist Owen Lovell earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in performance from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where his primary teacher was Boris Slutsky. While in Baltimore, he studied additionally with Julian Martin, Ellen Mack, and Leon Fleisher. Owen served as the staff pianist for the Peabody orchestras, and was awarded the Clara Ascherfeld Prize in Accompanying by the director of the Conservatory in 1997. In 1999, he was inducted to the Pi Kappa Lambda musical honor society by the faculty. Owen Lovell received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005, where his principal instructors were Dr. Betty Mallard and Gregory Allen.

Dr. Lovell has appeared as a soloist, accompanist, chamber musician, and new music advocate in New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Wisconsin, Ontario (Canada), Mexico and the Netherlands. During his tenure as pianist for the University of Texas New Music Ensemble, Dr. Lovell worked with many prizewinning composers, most notably Lowell Liebermann, Michael Torke, Samuel Adler, Joan Tower, Dan Welcher, Eric Ewazen, David Maslanka, Denis Smalley, and Roberto Sierra. He has been heard in live performance on Austin’s NPR affiliate, KUT-FM.

Dr. Lovell has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in fall 2008, where his duties include teaching applied piano lessons and class piano. He previously served on the keyboard faculties of the University of Texas—San Antonio, Texas State University, and the Eastern U.S. Music Camp at Colgate University.

Visit Dr. Lovell’s personal website for more information: www.owenlovell.com

Courses:

MUSI 106/108 Advanced Class Piano
MUSI 151/351 Applied Piano