Herman Whitfield III, a Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, Oberlin College and the Cleveland Institute of Music graduate is a mind-blowing pianist. Whitfield is a double- degree and triple-major student who studied piano with Takács, composition, and politics in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Whitfield won the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Annual Emerging Composers Readings national competition, twice. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra premiered the Scherzo No. 2 in E minor by Herman Whitfield III 2006. Whitfield performed his Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra in C-sharp minor – another premiere – with the Philhar-monic Orchestra of Indianapolis.