Pianist Stephen Runge has been heard
across Canada in recital, as chamber musician, and with
orchestra and is demand across the country as teacher,
adjudicator, and clinician. Stephen came to national
attention when he was awarded first prize in the piano
category of the National Music Festival. Since then
he has been the recipient of several important awards,
including prizes at the Eckhardt-Gramatté National
Music Competition, the International Stepping Stone
of the Canadian Music Competition, the C.F.M.T.A. National
Piano Competition, the Roberto and Mary Wood Competition,
the Shean Piano Competition, and the B.C. Young Artists'
Piano Competition.
Dr. Runge enjoys performing lesser
known repertoire and new works. In 2000, he gave the
Canadian premiere of Lowell Liebermann's Piano Concerto
No.2 with the Regina Symphony Orchestra. He has also
performed with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra and
the University of Victoria Orchestra. Dr. Runge has
been broadcast nationally on CBC Radio Two and La Chaîne
Culturelle de Radio-Canada. He has received special
recognition for his frequent performances as chamber
musician and art song collaborator. He recently completed
a major recording project of the large works for solo
piano by Robert Schumann. As a clinician, Dr. Runge
has given workshops at provincial and national teaching
conferences on topics such as effective practice methods,
performance practices for Baroque and Classical music,
and the challenges of teaching popular music.
Born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan,
Stephen Runge studied with Janice Elliott-Denike before
completing a Bachelor of Music degree with a major in
Piano Performance at the University of Victoria where
he was a student of Dr. Robin Wood. Upon graduation
from the University of Victoria, he was awarded the
Victoria Medal and the Governor General’s Silver
Medal as the top student in his class. He completed
a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance at l’Université
de Montréal and an Artist Diploma at The Glenn
Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto
under the direction of Marc Durand. He has also studied
at the Banff Centre for the Arts with Julian Martin
of the Juilliard School, and has performed in master
classes for artists such as Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode,
André Laplante, and John Perry. In the summer
of 2005 he attended the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox,
Massachusetts as a Fellow where he performed in a variety
of chamber and orchestral concerts. Stephen Runge completed
his Doctorate of Music at l’Université
de Montréal in April 2007. Dr. Runge taught at
St. Olaf College in Minnesota before joining the Department
of Music at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New
Brunswick in 2007, where he is currently Associate Professor
of Piano, Acting Head of the Department of Music, and
Director of Mount Allison Local Centre Examinations
in Music. He received a Paul Paré Excellence
Award from Mount Allison in 2010.
For more information on Stephen Runge,
please visit his website at www.stephenrunge.com.
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