A native of Pittsburgh, PA, William Hirtz received his Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from Juilliard. While a student there he was awarded a Teaching Fellowship in recognition of his teaching abilities.
He has gone on to teach and perform through the US. While in NY he worked as a staff composer for Scholastic, scoring videos and audio books. He scored the feature film “Straight To The Heart”. His “Wizard of Oz Fantasy” for virtuoso piano has been performed on 6 continents (Antarctica is a tough market!) and can be seen and heard on YouTube.
Mr. Hirtz composed a volume of 15 piano etudes “Tales Of Orp” that was published by Kjos Music and received glowing reviews from Keyboard Magazine. The New York Times said of his piano debut, “William Hirtz’s technical and interpretive gifts are considerable”.
