The pianist Craig Sheppard is professor of piano and Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor of Music at the University of Washington School of Music. He is a graduate of both Curtis and Juilliard, and has taught at the University of Lancaster, the Yehudi Menuhin School, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has performed in most major European cities, with all the major orchestras in Great Britain, and with those of Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Rochester, Dallas and Seattle. His solo repertoire encompasses over forty recital programs and over sixty concerti spanning all the major styles of Western music. His extensive discography includes both books of J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the Inventions and Sinfonias, and the Six Partitas, the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, the three late Schubert sonatas, and both books of Debussy’s Préludes.