Anton Nel

Winner of the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall, Anton Nel continues to tour internationally as recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Highlights in the U.S. include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Seattle, and Detroit Symphonies as well as recitals coast to coast. Overseas he has appeared at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,  Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and major venues in China, Korea, Canada, and South Africa. Much sought after as a chamber musician he regularly appears with some of the world’s finest instrumentalists and singers on four continents. A gifted and dedicated teacher, Anton Nel is the Head of the Division of Keyboard Studies and holder of the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair at the University of Texas at Austin; in September 2025 he also joined the faculty of the Glenn Gould School in Toronto. During the summers he is on the artist-faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and School, an Artistic Partner at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego,  and regularly teaches at the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival and the Orford Music Academy in Quebec. He also performs as harpsichordist and fortepianist each season.  His recordings include numerous solo recording projects, chamber music recordings (including the complete Beethoven and Brahms cello/piano works with Bion Tsang) , and works for piano and orchestra by Franck, Fauré, Saint-Saens and Edward Burlingame Hill. The Johannesburg-born Mr. Nel is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, where he studied with Adolph Hallis, and the University of Cincinnati where he worked with Bela Siki and Frank Weinstock. He was inducted into the Steinway Teacher Hall of Fame in New York in 2019 and the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in 2025. His website is antonnel.com.

Applied Piano

NY Concert Review
solo recital at Carnegie Hall

South Florida Classical Review
solo recital at Miami International Piano Festival

My Scena
Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 with Austin Symphony Orchestra,
Peter Bay, conductor

Seen and Heard International
Solo/Chamber Music Recital at Aspen Music Festival and School

Aspen Times
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 at Aspen Music Festival and School