Join us for a Piano Recital featuring Charl de Wet, MBChB, on Sunday, May 5, at 3:00 p.m. at the 560 Music Center.
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About Charl de Wet
Charl de Wet, MBChB, started taking piano and cello lessons as a child in South Africa. He appeared as soloist with several South African orchestras and was a member of the South African National Youth orchestra. In 1982, he won 4th prize at the International Piano Competition in Montevideo, Uruguay.
After high school, he participated in masterclasses with the famous American pianist, Leon Fleisher, at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, and was subsequently accepted as a student of his. He however returned to South Africa and decided to study medicine. Dr. De Wet completed his medical degree at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and started residency training at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. During this time, he also participated in an international competition for duo pianists in Munich, Germany, where he ended up among the top 5 duos.
In 1994, Dr. De Wet returned to the United States and completed his Anesthesia residency training at the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago and also did an elective rotation in cardiac anesthesia at Texas Heart Institute. Following residency training, he completed fellowships in critical care at Stanford Medical Center and completed a pediatric cardiac anesthesiology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. De Wet joined the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in 2000 where he is currently Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery. He is a member of the divisions of cardiothoracic anesthesia and critical care and has been the medical director of the CTICU since 2005.
Since 2009, he has completed 17 marathons including St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and Berlin. He qualified and completed the Boston Marathon twice and has run the Paris Marathon six times. In 2023, after an absence of almost 30 years, Dr. De Wet started playing piano once again. He was one of six finalists in the “Concours International des Grands Amateurs de Piano,” the largest competition for amateur pianists, in Paris, France.