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unusual facts about concert pianist



Ali Darmar

Recently Anjelika Akbar, a concert pianist and a composer, performed at the Erzurum 2011 Winter Universiade preparations' gathering in Erzurum and her repertoire consisted of one of Darmar's compositions, along with the works of John Sebastian Bach, Ulvi Cemal Erkin and Ilhan Baran.

Denis Matthews

Resuming his professional career after the war, he toured extensively as a concert pianist and formed successful partnerships with the Griller Quartet and the Amadeus Quartet.

Miklós Szabados

He also played matches with celebrities such as the tennis player Bobby Riggs (1948) and the concert pianist Julius Katchen (1955).


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A Severed Wasp

In L'Engle's first published novel, The Small Rain (the first half of which was republished as Prelude), Katherine Forrester is a gifted but socially isolated adolescent studying to be a concert pianist at a strict boarding school.

Aleksandre Korsantia

He is internationally active as a concert pianist and is a member of the piano faculty at Boston's New England Conservatory.

Armen Ra

Born in Tehran, Iran, he was raised by his mother, a concert pianist, and his aunt, an opera singer and Ikebana master.

Arthur MacArthur IV

Arthur MacArthur IV (born February 21, 1938, Manila, Philippines) is a concert pianist, writer and artist, the only child of United States Army General and Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur and grandchild of United States Army General Arthur MacArthur.

Bardo State

Frank is the son of Jan Wijn; a famous Dutch concert pianist, while Dorian attended the conservatory in Amsterdam and has a background in pop and dance music.

Bexhill-on-Sea

Peter Katin, concert pianist, recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist, has made Bexhill his home.

Bruhn

Siglind Bruhn (born 1951), German musicologist and concert pianist

Cesare Galeotti

Cesare Galeotti (5 June 1872, Pietrasanta - 19 February 1929, Paris) was an Italian composer, conductor, and concert pianist.

Charles Dutoit

He has been married four times, including a marriage to the world-renowned concert pianist Martha Argerich, to the economist Marie-Josée Drouin, and to Canadian violinist Chantal Juillet.

David Coffin

Coffin comes from a musical background: His father, Rev. William Sloane Coffin, studied to be a concert pianist with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, his grandfather was pianist Arthur Rubinstein, and his great-grandfather was Polish conductor Emil Mlynarski.

Delaborde

Élie-Miriam Delaborde, concert pianist, (1839-1913), illegitimate son of Charles-Valentin Alkan

Doniach

Shulamit Doniach (1905–1996), concert pianist, author, and composer

Easley Blackwood

Easley Blackwood, Jr. (born 1933), his son, professor of music, concert pianist, and composer

Ege Maltepe

Currently a resident of 86th Street (Manhattan), while her husband Emir Gamsızoğlu is having a concert pianist and composer career in New York.

Esther Hautzig

Rudomin met Walter Hautzig, a concert pianist, while en route to America on a student visa in 1947.

Eugenie Anderson

She concentrated in music as a student, and attended the Juilliard School in New York; her original hope was to become a concert pianist.

Florence Kirsch Du Brul

Florence Kirsch Du Brul (1915–July 2, 2005) was a concert pianist and master piano teacher and member of Chicago society in the mid-20th century.

Fred Mustard Stewart

He originally planned to be a concert pianist, and studied with Eduard Steuermann at the Juilliard School.

Frederic Chiu

Frederic Chiu (born 20 October 1964) is a Chinese American classical concert pianist.

George Schuyler

Their daughter, Philippa Schuyler (1931–1967), was a child prodigy and noted concert pianist, who later followed her father's footsteps and embarked on a career in journalism.

Gerhold K. Becker

met his future wife, the musicologist and concert pianist Siglind Bruhn.

Iturbi

Dame Amparo Iturbi Baguena (1898–1969), Spanish concert pianist; sister of José Iturbi

Jacobo Palm

As a concert pianist Jacobo Palm accompanied well known musicians such as Dalman from Argentina, Del Orbe from Santo Domingo, Luis Palma and the cellist Bogumil Sykora.

Jean-Paul Sevilla

Now a Canadian citizen as well, for more than twenty years Jean-Paul Sevilla has lived in Ottawa, Canada where he is now Professor Emeritus of the University of Ottawa, after being a full professor of piano, chamber music and piano literature at the University of Ottawa, while continuing his successful career as a concert pianist, lecturer and "clinician".

Joel Honig

In the 1960s, he served as the rehearsal accompanist and concert pianist for the Harkness Ballet and also worked in the studios of many of the era’s leading ballet instructors.

Joseph Achron

He was the older brother of the concert pianist and composer Isidor Achron, who became Jascha Heifetz's accompanist for more than ten years.

Joseph Cooper

As a concert pianist, Cooper made a number of successful recordings (including some for the World Record Club), and also began broadcasting on radio.

Lost in the Desert

For example, the Afrikaans version starts with a scene showing Dirkie's father Anton Hayes, who is a concert pianist, playing Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66 (posth.) before an audience.

Marcel Rominger

He pursued higher education and obtained his Masters of Music from UA while studying under Russian concert pianist Jura Margulis, where he held an assistantship in accompanying.

Maria Friedman

Friedman was born Maria Freedman in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, the daughter of Clair (née Sims), a concert pianist, and Leonard Friedman, a violinist for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

McBurney School

In a 1992 episode of the NBC television series Seinfeld, entitled The Pez Dispenser, the McBurney School was the site of the piano recital given by George Costanza's girlfriend Noel, a concert pianist, which was ruined when Jerry placed a Pez dispenser on Elaine's purse, causing her to laugh uncontrollably.

McDonald's Young Entertainers

The show featured some New Zealand teenagers who are now famous, including television personality Drew Neemia, cricketer Ronald Karaitiana, singer Hayley Westenra, actress Michelle Ang and concert pianist John Chen.

Mischa Maisky

Maisky's daughter Lily Maisky, born in Paris in 1987 and raised in Brussels, is embarking on a career as a concert pianist.

Myers Foggin

Foggin’s international concert pianist career included appearances in Paris, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Malta and Algiers.

Naida Cole

Naida Margaret Cole (born 28 October 1974 in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.) is a Canadian-American concert pianist who left a successful career as a recording artist and touring musician in 2007 to pursue medicine at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, where she is currently enrolled.

Rohan Spong

Rohan and the film's main subject (elderly concert pianist Mimi Stern-Wolfe) were invited as guests of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on World AIDS Day 2011 as part of an annual event held at Gracie Mansion.

Stephen Bishop

Stephen Kovacevich (born 1940), concert pianist, formerly named Stephen Bishop

Stolen Face

Dr. Philip Ritter, a plastic surgeon (Paul Henreid), falls in love with a gifted and beautiful concert pianist, Alice Brent (Lizabeth Scott).

Talitha MacKenzie

Training as a concert pianist from the age of four (teaching by the age of thirteen, and later specialising in Slavic and Impressionist piano music), she also began to teach herself Scottish Gaelic in her teens.

The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise

"The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" is a popular ballad with lyrics by Gene Lockhart and music (Toronto 1918) by the concert pianist Ernest Seitz, who had conceived the refrain when he was 12.

Université de Moncton

Roger Lord, internationally acclaimed concert pianist and Professor of Piano at U de M, brother of Bernard Lord

Visual Collaborative

An opening performance by American concert pianist Berenika.

William David Smith

Canadian concert pianist, Yaroslav Senyshyn, has performed some of his works in North America, Europe and most recently in Melba Hall, Melbourne, Australia.