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Owen Lovell
Senior Lecturer, Piano

(210)458-5331
owen.lovell@utsa.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, Ontario (Canada), Mexico and the Netherlands.  He has appeared as a soloist with members of the Peabody Symphony and the State University of New York at Cortland orchestras.  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 was appointed to the keyboard faculty at the University of Texas – San Antonio in 2007, where he teaches applied lessons, piano literature, and coordinates the class piano program. He previously served on the music faculty at Texas State University – San Marcos, the Eastern U.S. Music Camp at Colgate University, and held various graduate assistant positions at the University of Texas at Austin. Owen currently resides in San Marcos, Texas.

 

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