Frank Wiens is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music, where he received the Stanley Medal, that school’s highest award for musical excellence.  He has been an active touring concert artist since 1974, giving numerous recitals throughout the United States annually.  He has had two concert tours of South Korea, and performed a series of concerts in the former Soviet Union in 1991 in celebration of the Prokofieff centennial.  In the fall of 2006, he was a soloist with the Orchestra Dinu Lipatti in Romania and gave an all-Chopin recital at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw.  A winner of numerous awards, he has performed in London, Vienna, and New York’s  Carnegie Recital Hall, and been a soloist with such orchestras as the Atlanta, Denver, and Detroit Symphonies.  His compact disc recording of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Slovakia National Orchestra was released on the Fanfare-Intersound label.  He is a Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of the Pacific, and was the recipient of the University’s Distinguished Faculty Award in 1997 and its Research-Lecturer Award in 2000. Please click here for his full bio.