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This document provides a biography and resume for William Leicht, a piano performance major at Southern Methodist University. It details his education history, piano teachers, competition honors, festival experiences, work history accompanying at his church, and extensive piano repertoire. He has had many awards and accomplishments as a pianist over his high school and college career so far.

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Updated Resume For William 2020

This document provides a biography and resume for William Leicht, a piano performance major at Southern Methodist University. It details his education history, piano teachers, competition honors, festival experiences, work history accompanying at his church, and extensive piano repertoire. He has had many awards and accomplishments as a pianist over his high school and college career so far.

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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

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