Equally at home in performance of chamber music, song and operatic repertoire, Joel Harder has performed at Alice Tully Hall, the Caramoor Centre for the Arts, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Bishopsgate Hall and the Beethoven Haus in Baden, Austria.

Mr. Harder has worked with Maestros James Conlon, Christoph von Dohnanyi and Lorin Maazel, among others. He has been featured as pianist and coach at the Cincinnati May Festival, the Castleton Festival, Festival Lyrique Internationale de Belle-Ile en mer, Highlands Opera Studio, Chautauqua Vocal Arts Program and Los Angeles Opera, where he worked on Verdi’s La Traviata with Placido Domingo.

He has been featured in interviews on WSKG Radio, and has given masterclasses on collaborative pianism at Binghamton University, The University of Alberta, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Cornell University and Vanderbilt University. He is also the founding member of the Binghamton Piano Trio, with violinist Uli Speth and cellist Zachary Sweet, performing both new and standard works in the New York Tri-State area and beyond. A passionate purveyor of Art Song, Mr. Harder regularly performs with the Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS), most recently in Janácek’s A Diary of One Who Disappeared with Tenor Dominic Armstrong.

In May of 2015, Mr. Harder received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in collaborative piano from The Juilliard School. He wrote his dissertation on the songs of French composer André Caplet, for which he received a Presser Award for research at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Mr. Harder joined the faculty at SUNY Binghamton as Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano in August of 2015 where he is heading up a new graduate program in Collaborative Studies.