Join us at 3:00pm EST on Sunday, February 25th for a special Sundays with Steinway event featuring Steinway Hall of Fame Teacher Dr. Charles Fugo!
Charles Fugo is currently Professor of Piano at the University of South Carolina School of Music, where he teaches applied piano and coaches chamber music. He received his baccalaureate degree at Oberlin Conservatory, with additional study at the Akademie des Mozarteums, Salzburg, Austria, and his MM and DM Performance degrees at Indiana University, where he was also awarded the Performer’s Certificate. During his study at Indiana he was also named a state winner in the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Division.
Dr. Fugo has played collaborative recitals at New York City’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and has recorded the complete music for viola and piano by Robert Schumann in collaboration with Lenny Schranze, as well as transcriptions for double bass of works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Franz Schubert and César Franck in collaboration with Craig Butterfield, both issued on Centaur Records. As a member of the Jesselson/Fugo Duo he has also participated in a CD that is available online, “Carolina Cellobration,” featuring works of six South Carolina composers for cello and piano, commissioned by the Duo. He has performed throughout the Southeast and in other areas of the United States, and has appeared on several statewide programs on South Carolina Educational Radio and Television as both soloist and chamber musician.