Richard D. Seiler, Jr.

Richard Seiler of Brevard, North Carolina, is a Professor, the Keyboard Area Coordinator, and currently holds the Emy-Lou Biedenharn Endowed Professorship in Music in the Division of Music in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Louisiana at Monroe where he teaches piano, piano literature, and music theory. Dr. Seiler holds performance degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (BM), Illinois State University (MM), and Louisiana State University (DMA). His teachers included Peter Paciencia, Robert Blocker, Joseph DiPiazza, Gellert Modos, and Jack Guerry. As a student for three summers at the Brevard Music Center Festival, he studied with Anthony Sirianni. A Fazioli artist, Seiler has taught masterclasses and performed as a solo/collaborative pianist in the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, and China, has soloed with orchestras in North Carolina, Illinois, and Louisiana, including the LSU Symphony in a performance of the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto, and has recorded twice for Centaur Records. Seiler tours frequently with ULM faculty ensembles including the Ouachita Trio, the Lunte/Seiler Duo, and the Vangelisti/Seiler Duo, having performed at the 1999, 2002, 2008, and 2010 National Flute Association conventions in Atlanta, Washington D.C., Kansas City, and Anaheim, the 2001 and 2005 International Clarinet Association conventions in New Orleans and Tokyo, the 2002 Mid-South Flute Society conference, four College Music Society Southern Chapter conferences, five International Horn Society Southeast Division workshops, the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, and the 2010 Canadian University Music Society international conference. He served on the guest artist faculty in Summer 2006 at the week-long International Music Festival in Yantai, China. He is listed on the Louisiana Division of the Arts Touring and Artist Roster and has toured the state with Northeast Louisiana Arts Council ensembles-in-residence since 2002, having been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, through the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Seiler and Sandra Lunte (flute/piano duo) won the NELAC’s 2006 Artist-of-the-Year Award. He holds professional memberships with Pi Kappa Lambda, American Guild of Organists, College Music Society, Canadian University Music Society, Music Teachers National Association, and is a National Patron of Delta Omicron. Dr. Seiler was the recipient of the 2011 ULM Foundation Award for Excellence in Creative/Artistic Activity. He also serves as organist/choirmaster at Grace Episcopal Church in Monroe.