William Leicht

Birthday 1.24.2002
wleicht@smu.edu
College - Attended 2020-present
Majoring in Piano Performance
Southern Methodist University
6425 Boaz Lane
Dallas TX 75205

Dual Credit – Attended 2019-2020

Collin College,
9700 Wade Blvd,
Frisco, TX. 75035

Home School – Attended K-12

8449 Turnberry Dr.
Frisco, TX. 75036

Piano Teachers: Dr. Carol Leone, 2020 – Present

Dr. Mary Humm, 2016 – 2020

Piano Competitions and Honors

• 2020 (Senior) Denton Bach Society Young Musicians Competition 1st place, $300 cash award
and $150 gift card to Pender’s Music Co.
• 2020 (Senior) North Texas Young Artist Piano competition 2nd place
• 2020 (Senior) alternate for the Nordan Young Artist Award Scholarship at Texas Christian
University
• 2019 (Junior) Fort Worth Civic Orchestra Young Musicians’ Concerto Competition 1st place, $500
honorarium and played winning concerto with full orchestra
• 2019 (Junior) TMTA Student Affiliate Performance Competition, Piano Solo, State Level 1st
place, $150
• 2019 (Junior) Texas State Young Artist Piano Competition
1st place, $150 and full tuition scholarship for TX State International Piano Festival
• 2019 (Junior) Baylor/Waco Piano Competition, Concerto Division
Superior Honorable Mention, $250 scholarship for Baylor Summer Piano Institute
• 2019 (Junior) Plano Music Teachers, Sonatina Festival Superior
• 2019 (Senior), 2018 (Junior), 2017 (Sophomore), 2016 (Freshman) TMTA Theory Test Gold
Medal 2018 (Junior) Plano Music Teachers Association, Fall Festival Superior +
• 2018 (Sophomore) Plano Music Teachers Association, Sonatina Festival Superior +

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 • 2018 (Sophomore) TMTA Student Affiliate Performance Competition, Piano Solo, State Level
Finalist
• 2018 (Sophomore) Plano Music Teachers Association Holly Watson Summer Music Camp
Scholarship Winner, $350
• 2018 (Sophomore) and 2017 (Freshman) Dallas Junior Piano Guild Superior ++, selected to play
in Judges Choice Recital
• 2018 (Sophomore) Frisco Music Teachers Association Solo Competition 1st place, Winners
Recital
• 2018 (Sophomore) Baylor Waco Piano Competition
Superior, Honorable Mention, $250 scholarship to Baylor Summer Piano Institute
• 2018 (Sophomore) Dallas Symphonic Competition 4th place
• 2018 (Sophomore) Denton Bach Society Young Artist Competition Honorable Mention
• 2017 (Freshman) Dallas Solo Competition 2nd place

Festivals, Master Classes, and Lessons

• 2019 Texas State International Piano Festival Master Classes: Enrico Elisi and Daria Rabotkina
Lessons: Boris Slutsky and Washington Garcia
• 2019 and 2018 Baylor Summer Piano Institute
Master Classes: Terry Lynn Hudson, Jane Abbott-Kirk
Lessons: Brian Marks
Honors: Outstanding Theory Award and 3rd place Solo Performance, $200 scholarship
• 2018 Piano Texas International Academy and Festival, Prepfest, TCU Master Class: Tamás
Ungár
Lessons: Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Harold Martina
• 2017 SMU Young Pianists Institute
Master Class: John Weems
Lessons: Catharine Lysinger, Alfred Mouledous
• 2016 University of Dallas Summer Piano Camp Master Class and Lessons: Andrey Ponochevny
• 2016 – present Private Piano Lessons: Dr. Mary Humm
• 2007 – 2016 Private Piano Lessons: Ann Abel

Other Music Performance Experience

• 2019 Dec 22, 2018 Dec 23 Piano Foyer Music, Stonebriar Community Church
• 2019 Accompanist for choral ensemble, Stonebriar Community Church, approximately 3,000
people in attendance
• 2019, 2018, 2016 Piano Soloist, Stonebriar Community Church
• 2018 and 2017 Vocal Soloist, Men’s Quartet, Family A Cappella Ensemble, Stonebriar
Community Church
• 2018 Dec 17, Accompanied Carolers, Stonyfield Assisted Living
• 2018 Nov 19, Piano Solo, Parkside Assisted/Independent Living (1 hour)
• 2016 Piano Prelude, Children’s Choir Program, Stonebriar Community Church

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Work Experience
• 2019 Sept 23 – 2020 Nov 1, Piano Teaching

Youth Choir – Stonebriar Community Church

• Freshman / Soloist in abridged Messiah, “The People that Walked in Darkness”/ 1 to 3 hours
per week / 35 weeks
• Sophomore / Ensemble/1 to 3 hours per week / 35 weeks
• Junior/1to3hoursperweek/35weeks
• Senior/1to3hoursperweek/35weeks

Music Education
• 2020 – Present, Majoring in Piano Performance at SMU
• 2016 – 2017, Western Cultural History
Included the study of major composers in each musical period and how art and music reflect
changing
• philosophies throughout Western history.

Independent Reading

o Schumann on Music: A Selection from the Writings ed. Henry Pleasants

o The Chopin Companion: Profiles of the Man and the Musician ed. AlanWalker
o Chopin: Pianist and Teacher, as Seen by His Pupils by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
o Great Pianists on Piano Playing by James Francis Cooke
o The Art of Pedaling: A Manual for the Use of the Piano Pedals by Heinrich Gebhard
o Treatise on Instrumentation by Hector Berlioz and Richard Strauss
Music Repertoire – Studied or Performed
• Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major Bk I-No. 21, BWV 866
• Bach Prelude and Fugue in E Major Bk II-No. 9, BWV 878
• Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp Major Bk I-No. 3, BWV 848
• Bach: Prelude and Fugue in f minor Bk II-No. 12, BWV 881
• Bartok: Romanian Dances Op. 8a No. 1 Allegro vivace
• Beethoven: Sonata no. 21 in C Major Op. 53
• Beethoven: Sonata no. 6 in F Major Op. 10-No. 2
• Bradbury and Debussy, Arr. Reimer: “Jesus Loves Me” with Clair de Lune
• Brahms: Rhapsody in g minor Op. 79-No. 2
• Chopin: Etude in C Major Op. 10-No. 1
• Chopin: Etude in c minor Op. 10-No. 12, Revolutionary
• Chopin: Etude in F Major Op. 10-No. 8
• Chopin: Etude in f minor Op. 10-No. 9
• Chopin: Nocturne in c sharp minor Op. 27-No. 1
• Chopin: Nocturne in D flat Major Op. 27-No. 2
• Chopin: Scherzo no. 3 in c sharp minor Op. 39

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• Chopin: Waltz no. 14 in e minor Op. Posth.
• Chopin: Waltz no. 17 in E flat Major Op. Posth.
• Chopin: Waltz no. 5 in A flat Major Op. 42
• Debussy: Clair de Lune
• Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor op. 16, Allegro molto moderato
• Gruber, Arr. Hayes: “Silent Night”
• Hagenberg: “O Love”
• Haydn: Sonata no. 27 in G Major Hob. XVI
• Haydn: Sonata No. No. 53 in e minor Hob. XVI/34
• MacDowell: Six Fancies Op. 7-No. 2, To A Hummingbird
• Mompou: Canción Y Danza No. 6
• Monk and Chopin, Arr. Ham: “Abide With Me” with Etude Op. 10-No. 3
• Mozart: Sonata no. 5 in G Major K. 283, Allegro
• Muczynski: Six Preludes Op. 6-Nos. 3 and 4
• Nettleton, Arr. Martin: “Come, Thou Fount”
• Prichard, Arr. Brendlinger: “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” (with adaptation of
Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in D Major Op. 23-No. 4)
• Prokofiev: Sonata no. 3 in a minor Op. 28
• Rachmaninoff: Prelude in D Op. 23-No. 4
• Ravel: Jeux D’eau
• Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
• Shostakovich: Suite in f sharp minor for 2 pianos Op. 6, Prelude