Dr. David Abbott - Associate Professor
Piano

David Abbott joined Albion College as Associate Professor of Piano in the Fall of 2005. He returned to the United States after residing for ten years in Switzerland where he was active both as soloist, collaborative artist and teacher. Dr. Abbott was on the faculty of the Zuerich Conservatory of Music where he taught both piano and chamber music. Previous positions included the Schaffausen Conservatory of Music (Switzerland), the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (co-chair of piano), and the Idyllwild School of the Arts in California.

Dr. Abbott taught summer courses in piano and chamber music for over fifteen years at the Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park, Colorado. In 2003, he founded the Con Brio Music Festival in Blonay, Switzerland and returns there each summer to direct courses in piano and chamber music. Dr. Abbott was a triple prize-winner in the International Music Competition in Geneva Switzerland. He is passionately interested in historical performance practice and has worked with renowned fortepianist Malcolm Bilson. His current project is a recording of eighteenth and nineteenth century piano works performed on both modern and historical keyboard instruments.