Eric Zuber (born June 9, 1985) is an

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virtuoso pianist and pedagogue. A native of

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, Zuber has won prizes at many international piano competitions, including the

Honens International Piano Competition The Honens International Piano Competition is a triennial classical piano competition held in Calgary, Canada that awards prizes in piano performance. In addition to monetary awards, the top prize winner receives access to a career development prog ...

Cleveland International Piano Competition The Cleveland International Piano Competition is an American piano competition that takes place biennially in Cleveland, Ohio. The initial Competition in 1975 and the nine others that followed were sponsored jointly by the Robert Casadesus Society ...

, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, Seoul International Music Competition, Sydney International Piano Competition, Dublin International Piano Competition,

Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition The Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition was founded in 2002 by Alexander Braginsky in collaboration with the Yamaha Corporation. It took place every two years in Minneapolis–Saint Paul before the 2008 edition was delayed to 2009 due to the ...

Bösendorfer and Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition The Bösendorfer and Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition is a biennial piano competition held at Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan are ...

, and the

Hilton Head International Piano Competition The Hilton Head International Piano Competition is a piano competition held annually since 1996 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina's First Presbyterian Church. Selected list of jurors * Joseph Banowetz * José Feghali * Peter Frankl * Ke ...

. He made his debut at age 12 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and has since then gone on to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the

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, the

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, the Korean Symphony, and Ireland's RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra among many others. He holds degrees from the

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, Juilliard School, and the Peabody Institute of Music. He is currently serving as Visiting Professor of Piano Performance at

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in Indiana, and has been Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis' Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music and Faculty Associate at the Peabody Institute. In the summer of 2017, Zuber served on the faculty of the Music Fest Perugia for the first time. He will join the piano faculty at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus University in the Fall of 2017, as the L. Rexford Whiddon Visiting Chair in Piano Performance. He was recently named Assistant Professor of Piano at the Michigan State University School of Music where he will begin teaching in the fall of 2022.

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