Bruce Vogt appears regularly in concert across Canada and also inspires audiences abroad. He frequently tours Japan and has toured China three times, teaching, lecturing, and playing concerts. He has given solo recitals and chamber music concerts in European centers including London, Oxford, Norwich, Paris, Bordeaux, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Weimar, Wiesbaden, Krakow, Trieste, Sophia, Oslo, and Prague.

Vogt grew up in Southern Ontario, where he studied with Damjana Bratuz and Anton Kuerti. He later studied in the U.S. and Europe with such celebrated musicians as Gyorgy Sebok, Louis Kentner, Fou Ts’Ong and Dario de Rosa.

Vogt’s repertoire is diverse, encompassing music from the sixteenth century to the present. He has long championed the music of contemporary composers, and has commissioned and premiered a number of new works such Canadian luminaries as Murray Adaskin and Alfred Fisher. He is also a dedicated performer on period instruments; one of his recordings features music of Robert Schumann performed on a restored 1864 Erard. Other recordings include two volumes of the music of Franz Liszt, which established for him an enviable reputation as a Liszt interpreter. In 2011—the bicentenary of the composer’s birth—he recorded two subsequent Liszt CDs.

In addition to his career as a soloist and chamber musician, Vogt was Professor at the University of Victoria. Because he sees working with teachers and young pianists as an important commitment, he lectures widely, leads master classes and workshops, and adjudicates for festivals. 

Vogt has presented and improvised accompaniments to great films of the silent era. He has lectured on and otherwise introduced films Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Griffith, Murnau and others. He has been invited to offer these presentations in Germany, England, France, Italy, Romania, Japan and the USA, as well as across Canada.