Joel Harder

Versatile and acclaimed, Canadian pianist Joel Harder is sought-after as collaborator, pedagogue, vocal coach and chamber musician, having performed in Canada, the United States, England and continental Europe. Equally at home in performance of chamber music, song and operatic repertoire, Mr. Harder has performed at Alice Tully Hall, the Caramoor Centre for the Arts, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Bishopsgate Hall, and the Beethoven Haus in Baden, Austria. Mr. Harder has worked with Maestros James Conlon, Christoph von Dohnanyi and Lorin Maazel, among others. He has been featured as pianist and coach at the Cincinnati May Festival, the Castleton Festival, Festival Lyrique Internationale de Belle-Ile en mer, Highlands Opera Studio, Chautauqua Vocal Arts Program and Los Angeles Opera. He has been featured in interviews on WSKG radio, and has given masterclasses on collaborative pianism at Binghamton University, the University of Alberta, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Cornell University and Vanderbilt University. A passionate purveyor of Art Song, Mr. Harder has performed regularly with the Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) for 6 years, where he has performed works ranging from Schubert song cycles to newly commissioned premieres.

In May of 2015, Mr. Harder received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in collaborative piano from The Juilliard School. He wrote his dissertation on the songs of French composer André Caplet, for which he received a Presser Award for research at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Mr. Harder joined the faculty at SUNY Binghamton as Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano in August of 2015 where he is currently head of graduate collaborative piano studies.