Bryan Verhoye began formal piano lessons at the age of five, and continued his musical training at the University of Southern California School of Music, the Aspen Music School, and The Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. His teachers have included Malcolm Hamilton, Daniel Pollack, Ann Schein and William Doppmann.
In addition to being a four-time prizewinner of the Musical Merit Foundation of San Diego auditions, Bryan won first prize for Contemporary Music in the Young Artist Division of the International Piano Recording Competition, and first prize in the Carmel Music Society's Piano Competition. He later returned to Carmel to perform a solo recital on their music series, and his performance from that recital of Stravinsky's "Three Movements from Petrouchka" was broadcast on National Public Radio's syndicated Performance Today program.
Bryan has been featured several times with the San Diego Symphony; on their "French Connection" Light Bulb series concert in a performance from Ravel's Concerto in G, in the Summer Pops "Gershwin" concert, and in a jazz piano trio for the Symphony's Holiday Pops concert. He is a published composer and arranger; in addition to being the accompanist for the San Diego Master Chorale, he is also Music Associate at Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church.
"Pianist Verhoye played with technical precision and insightful musicality. After the final chord, the audience rose to its feet in a well-deserved standing ovation."
- Eileen Wingard, SD Jewish Press Heritage, Friday, July 20, 2001
Throughout his career, Bryan has collaborated with numerous singers and instrumentalists in classical, jazz, pop and studio recording settings and he appears frequently as a solo recitalist, accompanist, and chamber music performer in San Diego and throughout the West Coast. Other performances include the Beethoven 3rd Piano Concerto with the University of San Diego Symphony, the Beethoven 5th ("Emporer") piano concerto with the North Coast Symphony, the MacDowell 2nd and Prokofieff 1st piano concertos, with Robert Plimpton accompanying on the Spreckels Organ in Balboa Park, and solo recitals at San Diego State University, the San Diego Mini-Concert Series downtown, the First Presbyterian Church, the First Unitarian Church, Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church, La Jolla Presbyterian Church, the First United Methodist Church, San Carlos United Methodist Church, and Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in La Jolla.