FRED KARPOFF has performed as both soloist and collaborative pianist on four continents, including concerts in Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Finland, Italy, and China. He has been a guest artist at major music festivals in the U.S. and Europe, and collaborated with musicians such as the Cassatt Quartet, Larry Combs, Eric Ruske, Marina Piccinini, and Curtis Macomber; principal musicians of the Baltimore, Rochester, Syracuse, Vancouver, Seattle, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras; and members of the Tokyo, Chicago, and Audubon String Quartets in concert. In 2007, he formed the Boccaccio Trio with Jeremy Mastrangelo, violin, and David LeDoux, cello.

A former Artistic Ambassador for the United States Information Agency, Karpoff is a prize winner in the San Antonio, Frinna Awerbuch, GPA Dublin, and 2005 Competition Internationale international piano competitions. He has studied with Ann Schein, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Robert Weirich and holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Peabody Conservatory, where he was a frequent performer in the master classes of Leon Fleisher. His undergraduate training took place at Northwestern University. He has also worked with renowned artists such as Jeffrey Kahane, Richard Goode, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and the late Karl-Ulrich Schnabel.

Fred Karpoff is highly sought for his keen understanding of interdependent piano technique. He has presented master classes and workshops at universities, festivals, music teachers' associations and conventions throughout the United States, across Europe and Africa and, most recently, in Hangzhou and Shanghai, China. Formerly on the faculties of Peabody and the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, he is Associate Professor of Piano at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University. In addition to his critically acclaimed CD release, Heroic Tales: Piano Music of Edward MacDowell, Renegade Classics has issued his live Beethoven Trio performances with musicians at the Skaneateles Festival.

With award-winning documentary film director, Richard Breyer, he is producing a DVD series on piano playing and teaching that will be released in late 2008.