Daniel Schene
Director of Keyboard Studies
Professor of Music
Piano
A native of New York, Professor Daniel Schene has performed as a recitalist, chamber
musician, concert soloist, and accompanist across the United States and Canada, as
well as France, Italy, Turkey, Chile, Brazil, Greece, and Asia.
Professor Schene is the duo partner of Eva Szekely, first violinist of the Esterhazy
Quartet. He is a frequent guest artist with the Saint Louis Symphony’s Chamber Music
St. Louis concerts and the Prelude series at Powell Hall. He has collaborated with
renowned cellist Zara Nelsova and Denes Kovacs, director of the Liszt Academy in Budapest.
After his debut with the Charlotte Symphony at fifteen, he attended the North Carolina
School of the Arts.
He received the BM and MM in Piano Performance from Indiana University, studying with
Gyorgy Sebok and Enrica Cavallo-Gulli. At Indiana, he was the recipient of the prestigious
Joseph Battista Memorial Award. Professor Schene has been Artist-in-Residence and
Director of Keyboard Studies at Webster University since 1983. He is a founding faculty
member of the Indiana University Summer Academy and the Institute for Advanced Vocal
Studies in Paris.
Mr. Schene records for the CRI label.
Here are three studio performances from January 2012:
- Franz Liszt: "Sonetto 104 del Petrarca," from Years of Pilgrimage: Italy
- Serge Rachmaninoff: Prelude in B-Flat Major, Op. 23 No. 2
- Claude Debussy: "Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in the Water)" from Images, Book I
