Keys to Excellence 2025-2026 Season Opens With Spencer Myer

Spencer Myer, associate professor of piano at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, is the first featured guest artist of the 2025-2026 season of Drake University’s Keys to Excellence Piano Series on Monday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium. Admission is free. Myer will also present a public masterclass on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium.

Lauded for “superb playing” and “poised, alert musicianship” by The Boston Globe and labeled “definitely a man to watch” by London’s The Independent, American pianist Spencer Myer is one of the most respected and sought-after artists on today’s concert stages.

The concert program is comprised of the following works:

• Haydn: Fantasia in C Major, Hob. XVII:4​​
• Ravel: Miroirs
• Liszt: Tre Sonetti del Petrarca
• Vine: Piano Sonata No. 1 (1990)​​

Keys to Excellence Piano Series is supported by Drake University Jordan Concerts. For more information, contact Nicholas Roth at 515-321-5947 or nicholas.roth@drake.edu.

KEYS TO EXCELLENCE PIANO SERIES 2025-2026:

SPENCER MYER – Indiana University
October 26: Masterclass
October 27: Concert

MARTA  AZNAVOORIAN & JANET SUNG (violin) – DePaul University
November 9: Masterclass
November 10: Concert

NICHOLAS ROTH – Drake University – Sally B. Bartlett Memorial
December 1: Concert

MOLLY ROSEMAN – University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
February 15: Masterclass
February 16: Concert

All events in the series are located in Sheslow Auditorium on the Drake University campus. Masterclasses begin at 4 p.m. and concerts at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.