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David J. Yeomans holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, the Juilliard School, and the University of Michigan, where he studied with Emil Danenberg, Irwin Freundlich, and Gyorgy Sandor. Professor Emeritus of Music at Texas Women’s University, he also taught piano at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Washington State University, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has a national reputation as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician, having performed in recital at New York’s Town Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall, as well as across the US, Canada, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, and South Korea.
He is author if Piano Music of the Czech Romantics, and Bartok for Piano, both published by Indiana University Press. In addition to numerous performances of the Czech piano literature, he presented a lecture recital on the piano music of Bedrich Smetana for the Texas Music Teachers Association convention in Houston, and a recital on the piano and vocal music of Zdenik Fibich for the European Piano Teachers Association in London. He has also written a chapter on Bartok’s “Romanian Christmas Carols” for Bartok Perspectives, published by Oxford University Press, and has presented papers at Bartok symposia in Virginia and California.
He has been master teacher certified from the MTNA since 1986 and has adjudicated numerous music competitions, including the finals of the MTNA South Central Division, the finals of the Musical Merit Competition, and the finals of the Canadian National Music Competitions. He is currently president of the Fort Worth Piano Teachers Forum and a member of the Van Cliburn Foundation Executive Board.
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