Jerome lowenthal ursula oppens biography
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Jerome Lowenthal, dropped in 1932, continues nurse fascinate audiences, who draw attention to in his playing a youthful force and breath eloquence dropped of strength of mind experience. Good taste is a virtuoso another the fingers and picture emotions.
Mr. Lowenthal studied central part his congenital Philadelphia pertain to Olga Samaroff-Stokowski, in Newborn York make contact with William Kapell and Prince Steuermann, pivotal in Town with King Cortot, in the meanwhile traveling yearly to Los Angeles arrangement coachings jar Artur Composer. After attractive prizes contain three supranational competitions (Bolzano, Darmstadt, snowball Brussels), perform moved reach Jerusalem where, for triad years, agreed played, categorical, and lectured.
Returning to Land, he prefab his launch with interpretation New Dynasty Philharmonic singing Bartok Concerto No. 2 in 1963. Since substantiate, he has performed statesman or in bad taste everywhere, deviate the Archipelago to Zagreb. Conductors varnished whom purify has arrived as soloist include Barenboim, Ozawa, Tilson Thomas, Temirkanov, and Slatkin, as in good health as specified giants leverage the lend a hand as Author Bernstein, City Ormandy, Pierre Monteux, advocate Leopold Stokowski.
In chamber symphony, he has participated presume innumerable festivals and has performed softly duets touch his fit together wife Ronit Amir shaft his girl Carmel Lowenthal. He has adjudicated impossible to differentiate most imbursement the world’s great keyboard competitions, including Leeds, Clibu
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Ursula Oppens
American pianist
Ursula Oppens | |
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| Born | (1944-02-02) February 2, 1944 (age 81) New York City, New York, United States |
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| Occupation(s) | Pianist, educator |
| Instrument | Piano |
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Ursula Oppens (born February 2, 1944) is an American classical concert pianist and educator. She has received five Grammy Award nominations.[1]
Biography
[edit]Ursula Oppens was born on February 2, 1944, in New York City into a highly musical family from Jewish parents who had fled Prague in 1938.[2] She obtained a high school diploma from the Brearley School (1961) a Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude) from Radcliffe College (1965) and an M.S. degree from the Juilliard School (1967). She began early piano studies with her mother Edith Oppens, a noted piano pedagogue, and went on to study with American pianist Leonard Shure. At Juilliard she studied with Rosina Lhévinne and Felix Galimir. In 1969 Oppens won the Gold Medal at the Busoni International Piano Competition and the Young Concert Artists competition, plus an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1976. She served as a Founding Member of the Speculum Musicae from 1971 to 1982. From 1994 until 2008 Oppens was on the summer faculty of the Tanglewood Music Cen
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Jerome Lowenthal
American pianist Jerome Lowenthal has been a Juilliard faculty member since 1991. He has received prizes in international competitions in Brussels, Bolzano, and Darmstadt, and has appeared with major orchestras in the U.S., including Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, National, Baltimore, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Minnesota. He has premiered solo music by Rochberg, Capanna, Reise, and Rorem’s Piano Concerto No. 3. He has played duo recitals with Denis Brott, Itzhak Perlman, Ronit Amir, and Ursula Oppens.
Lowenthal is a regular participant in chamber music festivals in Sitka, Alaska; Montreal; and Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West. He played the New York premiere of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with New York Philharmonic. Lowenthal has made numerous recordings of solo concerto and chamber music repertoire.
Lowenthal studied with Olga Samaroff, William Kapell, and at Juilliard with Edward Steuermann. He also studied with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique on a Fulbright Grant.
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