Now celebrating his fifteenth year as Artistic Director of Rockport Music, pianist David Deveau is acclaimed internationally for his expressive and poetic interpretations of repertoire ranging from Haydn to the present. He has earned enthusiastic praise from major publications including the New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Minneapolis Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Le Figaro (Paris), China Daily (Beijing) and American Record Guide.

David Deveau’s orchestral engagements over the last three decades include solo performances with the Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, as well as the Houston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Miami Symphony Orchestras; the Pacific (CA) and Portland symphonies, and many others. Locally he has appeared on many occasions as soloist with the Boston Pops, and with the Handel and Haydn Society, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Indian Hill, the Boston Philharmonic, and the Civic Symphony of Boston. Abroad, he has appeared as soloist with the Qingdao (China) Symphony, and L’Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse (France). In New York, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum. He has also appeared in recital at the Kennedy Center and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC; San Francisco’s Herbst Theater, Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, Minneapolis’s Orchestra Hall, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, and myriad other cities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Internationally, Mr. Deveau made his debut concert tour of mainland China in early 2005, where he performed a solo recital in Beijing at Zhong Shan Hall, and the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in Qingdao. In 2006, he was presented in concert by the Celebrity Series of Boston to great critical acclaim.

Mr. Deveau has performed with members of the Juilliard, Shanghai, Borromeo, Muir, Ying, Kronos, Orion and St. Lawrence string quartets, and has been a guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society, most recently performing the 2009 Boston premiere of John Harbison’s Piano Trio No. 2. In January 2010, he appeared with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players in a rare performance of Bartok’s early Piano Quintet. Festival engagements include Tanglewood, Caramoor, Wolf Trap, Mainly Mozart, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Strings Festival (Colorado), the Montana and Maui festivals, the Manchester (VT) Music Festival, and the Sommerfest of the Minnesota Orchestra, among others.

A music faculty member at MIT since 1988, Mr. Deveau has also given masterclasses at Longy School, San Francisco Conservatory, and at Harvard University and Dartmouth College. Mr. Deveau is heard internationally on PRI, as well as on the BBC, CBC, NPR, and on commercially available recordings on the Albany, Centaur and EcoClassics labels.