Joe Galyon
Joe Galyon
Adjunct Professor of Piano, Piano Proficiency
D.M.A., Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
M.M., University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music
B.M., Samford University School of the Arts
Office: FA 234
Phone: 859.572.5274
E-mail: galyonj1@nku.edu
Joe Galyon has earned acclaim performing as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States. According to the Birmingham News, Galyon is a pianist who "invests skill with passion," and Dan Tucker of the Chicago Tribune remarked that Galyon performs with "power and technical brilliance." In addition to solo recitals, he has appeared with orchestras in Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee. Galyon's extensive work as a chamber musician includes the world premiere performance of Azaleas for viola and piano by David Burge. He has collaborated with George Crumb and John Corigliano performing works by both composers. He has also appeared in the Grandin Chamber Festival, the American Oboist Conference, and the Midday Musicale Recital Series in Covington, Kentucky.
Galyon actively performs as a member of the piano-duo, Daly & Galyon. The duo made its first international appearance at London's historic St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London with additional concerts in Coventry and at the University of Warwick. They have received several awards of distinction including prizes in the Ellis Competition for Duo-Pianists and the Graves Duo Piano Competition. As American music specialists, they have been recognized by the National Federation of Music Clubs as distinguished recipients of the Faye and John Abild Prize in American Music. The duo appeared in a feature recital for the fifty-seventh annual American Music Festival at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, Illinois, and at the Cincinnati Art Museum. According to The Washington Post, "Daly & Galyon are good musicians who met the often difficult demands of the music squarely."
Presently on the piano faculty at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky, Dr. Galyon previously held faculty positions at Earlham College, Samford University, and the Toedtman School of Music. He is an active member of Music Teachers National Association and works with music organizations by giving master's classes, lectures, and performance seminars. Dr. Galyon serves as Director of Music and Organist at Church of the Saviour United Methodist, a position he has held since 1995. His work as a church musician includes choral and instrumental conducting, commissioning new choral cantatas and anthems, and publishing his own sacred service music for both piano and organ with the Genevox Music Group and Word, Inc. As an organist, he has presented performances at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California and John Wesley Chapel in London.
Joe Galyon holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He has a Master of Music from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Bachelor of Music from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. His teachers have included such distinguished artists as Richard Cass, Clifford Dye, Mary Greenhoe, Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff, and Witold Turkiewicz.