Craig Sheppard

Craig Sheppard (full name: Craig Douglass Sheppard, born 26 November 1947; Philadelphia, PA) is an American concert pianist and educator of Scots-Irish, English and German descent.

The son of Jeanne Linton and George Edgar Sheppard, Sheppard was raised in Jenkintown, PA, and graduated Abington High School in 1965. He studied with Eleanor Sokoloff at the Curtis Institute from 1965–68 and Sasha Gorodnitzki at the Juilliard School from 1968–71, graduating from the latter with Bachelor of Music and Master of Science degrees. In 1968, he won the Bronze Medal in the Busoni Competition. In 1972, he won the Silver Medal at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, which started his international career. He later won a Bronze medal in the Dino Ciani Piano Competition (1975).

Living in London from 1973 to 1993, Sheppard continued his studies with Peter Feuchtwanger and Sir Clifford Curzon, and performed with major British orchestras on multiple occasions, as well as many on the European continent. During those years, he taught at Lancaster University, the Yehudi Menuhin School, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He also gave frequent masterclasses at both Oxford and Cambridge universities. Sheppard returned to the United States in 1993 to take up a position as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle, becoming a Full Professor there in 2004. In the past fifteen years, Sheppard has traveled extensively to the Far East, performing and giving master classes in Japan, Korea, China and Singapore. In 2012, he performed at the Nehru Memorial Library in New Delhi, and undertook a residency at the Melba Conservatory of the University of Melbourne. He also performed for the third time in New Zealand.

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