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Pianist Kevin T. Chance joined the UA faculty in January of 2010 as Instructor of Piano, teaching class piano and serving as a collaborative pianist in the choral and voice areas and a coach in the Opera Theatre.  He has been hailed as “a superlative musician” playing “with musical conviction and muscularity.”  He has performed throughout the United States and abroad as both soloist and collaborator, including concerto appearances with the Magic City Orchestra of Alabama and the Brevard Music Center.  In 2003, he was invited to the Lake District Summer Music Festival in England where he was featured on both of the festival’s gala performances. Recent engagements include Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Athens Chorale in Georgia as well as the Baton Rouge Symphony, a recital at the Des Moines Symphony Academy in Iowa, and concerts for the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, the University of Texas at Brownsville, Auburn University,  Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Alabama.  Chance has been a prizewinner of several regional and national competitions including the National Society of Arts and Letters Career Awards Competition, Music Teachers National Association Competitions (MTNA), and the Brevard Music Center Concerto Competition.

Dr. Chance is a member of the Semplice Duo with flutist Cristina Ballatori. In August 2004, they were named the winners of the Notes at 9,000 Emerging Artist Series Competition in Colorado. Past seasons have taken them to Texas, Colorado, New York, and Louisiana, and they were selected as artist fellows for the 2005 Hampden-Sydney Music Festival in Virginia, where they returned for a series of performances in 2008.

A successful teacher, Dr. Chance’s students are frequently named winners and finalists in local, state, regional, and national competitions, including the 2009 Music Teachers National Association’s National Competition Finals in Atlanta.  He serves on the faculties of several summer festivals including the New Orleans Piano Institute, the Huntingdon College Piano Academy, the Samford University Senior Piano Seminar, and the Tennessee Valley Music Festival.  In demand as a clinician and adjudicator, he regularly presents workshops and lecture-performances on repertoire and pedagogy, including presentations at the 2008 MTNA National Conference in Denver and the 2008 College Music Society (CMS) National Conference in Atlanta, and Mr. Chance will return for a presentation at the 2009 CMS National Conference in Portland, Oregon.  He serves as the President of the Alabama Music Teachers Association.

Dr. Chance is a former faculty member at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham and earned the the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music where he was awarded the Jerald C. Graue Fellowship for Excellence in Musicology.  An alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival, he holds the Master of Music degree from Louisiana State University and graduated magna cum laude from Birmingham-Southern College.  His teachers have included Barry Snyder, Constance Knox Carroll, Ann Schein, Herbert Stessin, William DeVan and Betty Sue Shepherd.