David Brunell (born 1954) is an American pianist who has gained international recognition for his virtuosity and poetic temperament at the piano. A native of

St. Louis St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...

, he studied with Dorothy Dring Smutz,

Sidney Foster Sidney Foster (May 23, 1917 — February 7, 1977), born Sidney Earl Finkelstein, was an American virtuoso pianist and teacher. He studied with Isabelle Vengerova and David Saperton at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and in 1940 beca ...

, Zadel Skolovsky,

Balint Vazsonyi Balint Vázsonyi (7 March 193617 January 2003) was a Hungarian-born naturalized American pianist, educator, international recitalist/soloist with leading orchestras, and political activist and journalist. He made performance history in playing c ...

, and

Adele Marcus Adele Marcus (February 22, 1906 May 3, 1995) was an American pianist and instructor whose career was based at the Juilliard School in New York City. Life and career Marcus was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the youngest of 13 children of a rabbi ...

. He has concertized widely throughout North America, Europe, and Latin America to critical acclaim. Typical of this acclaim was a review in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch praising Brunell as "a big talent ... (with) exquisite taste ... formidable technique ... marvelous ideas ... it was thrilling!" Also a master teacher, Brunell is currently a member of the artist faculty at the

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School of Music. Prior to coming to Tennessee, Dr. Brunell taught at

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and at

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''University of Tennessee School of Music''
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