Feb 06, 2025

Acclaimed pianist Jennifer Hayghe performs her concert “Girl Power: Piano Music Written By, For and About Women” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

This is the sixth presentation in the 2024-2025 performance season at the Quick Center.

Hayghe has been sought after as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher throughout the United States and in Central America, Europe and Asia. She received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees from The Juilliard School, where she was the last student of the legendary artist-teacher Adele Marcus. During her studies, Hayghe won every award possible for a Juilliard pianist to receive, including the William Petschek Debut Award, resulting in her New York City recital debut at Alice Tully Hall. 

Hayghe has performed and taught at universities and colleges throughout the country. She has also appeared as a concerto soloist with orchestras throughout the United States, including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra.

Hayghe has performed in multiple major chamber music series, including Bargemusic in New York and the Garth Newel Center for Music series in Virginia, and has been a festival artist for Colorado MahlerFest for the past six years. She has taught chamber music throughout the United States and in Central America, and since 2018 has taught and performed as a soloist and chamber musician at the Brancaleoni International Music Festival in Piobbico, Italy. 

In demand as a clinician and master class teacher, Hayghe has served as a featured artist at music teacher conventions in New York, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Virginia. She has given master classes at universities and colleges throughout the country, including the Manhattan School of Music, the New York University Piano Master Class Series and Mannes College of Music Pre-college. Hayghe has also been a presenter and panelist at multiple College Music Society and Music Teachers National Association national conferences. 

Currently chair of the Roser Keyboard and Piano Area at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Hayghe was formerly an associate professor of piano at Ithaca College and the Barineau Endowed Professor of Piano at Louisiana State University. She lives in Erie, Colorado, with her husband, Robert McGaha, and her son.

The performance is presented in association with Friends of Good Music. The Quick Center galleries will open one hour before the performance and remain open through the intermission.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $18 for senior citizens and SBU employees, and $5 for students. Tickets can be purchased online or by calling the Quick Center at (716) 375-2494.