First prize winner of the "Citta di Barletta" International Piano Competition, Hilary Demske,
piano, is a native of Dallas, Texas. Hilary holds a Doctorate in performance from the
University of Michigan, a Master of Music from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music
degree from The Peabody Conservatory of Music, where her awards include the Van Cliburn,
Alice Shaw Farber, and Marie Dring scholarships. She also studied at the Hochschule für
Musik in Munich, Germany (the Munich Conservatory), where she won the highest graduate
honor, the Meisterklasse Diploma in performance. Her principal teachers include Julian Martin,
Logan Skelton, and Margarita Höhenrieder.

Notable solo venues include the Steinway House in Munich, Mendelssohn House in Leipzig,
Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Museum in Dresden, Richard-Wagner Museum in Pirna, the Rococco Saal
in Augsburg, Fischer Klavier Haus in Swäbisch Hall, Steinway House New York, and other venues
in Dresden, Rome, Tel Aviv, Asturias, Sicily, England, Canada and the United States.

She has been featured on Bavaria's national radio station (Bayerische Rundfunk), Houston Public
Radio's "From The Top", and has been published in Munich Found, the city's largest English
language magazine. She has presented papers at a wide range of international conferences,
including the Performing Tangier conference in Morocco, the European Piano Teachers Association
conference in Serbia, the International Bertolt Brecht Conference in Hawaii, and a Symposium on
Oswald Spengler in Belgium.   Previous teaching positions include the University of Michigan and the
State University of New York at Fredonia, where she served as the secretary of the New York State
Music Teachers Association.

An avid performer of contemporary music, Hilary has collaborated with George Tsontakis, Stephen
Hough, and Michael Daugherty. She has recently released a solo piano music CD of Henry Martin
for Albany Records.