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Lyle Indergaard
Piano
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Lyle Indergaard, Associate Professor of Piano, holds degrees from Minot State College (B.A.), the University of Wyoming (M.A.) and the Eastman School of Music (D.M.A.). A Fulbright Scholar to Germany, he was awarded Performance Diplomas in Piano and Chamber Music from the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik. His teachers include Paul Lyddon, Carl Seemann, Helmut Barth, Rosa Sabater and Jean Barr, and he has coached with Margo Garrett, Anne Epperson, Malcolm Bilson, Roger Vignoles, Gwendolyn Koldofsky and Hans Leygraf.
Dr. Indergaard has been at Valdosta State University since 1993. His duties have included accompanying faculty and students, teaching studio and class piano, and teaching German Diction to singers. Before coming to Valdosta, he was on the faculty of the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik for ten years as an accompanist and studio piano teacher. During that time, he worked closely with Heinz Holliger, Aurele Nicolet, Dieter Klöcker, Ifor James and Rainer Kussmaul.
A specialist in collaborative piano, Lyle Indergaard received a Performance Diploma in Chamber Music from the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Accompanying and Chamber Music from the Eastman School of Music. He has done extensive research in the field of 19th Century German Art Song. Dr. Indergaard has performed on some two hundred recitals at Valdosta State University. In the last few years, he has performed at international conferences in Limerick, Ireland and Toronto, Canada. For the last eight years, he has performed Music of the Holocaust throughout the United States. This program, consisting of music composed at Auschwitz and Theresianstadt, has been recorded on the CD Mystic Chords of Genocide.
Dr. Indergaard performed Ravel's Concert for the left hand with the Central Florida Symphony, Ocala, FL in October 2005. Recent lecture recitals include: "Easy and Intermediate Chamber Music" for the Georgia Music Education Association Conference, "Piano Injuries and Music for the Left Hand" for the Atlanta Music Teachers Association and "Twentieth Century Four-Hand Music" for the Georgia Music Teachers Association Conference.
Dr. Indergaard has taught piano at the Georgia Governor's Honors Program from 2003-05. In summer 2006, he will serve as Music Department Chair as well as piano instructor at GHP. He is a member of the College Music Society, Music Teachers National Association and Music Educators National Conference. He is Chair-elect of the Georgia Music Educators Association Piano Division. Dr. Indergaard has adjudicated throughout Georgia and in north Florida.