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Simone Dinnerstein was born on September 18, 1972; she is an American classical pianist who is noted for her self-financed recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, released in 2007. She studied in the pre-college program at the Manhattan School of Music with Solomon Mikowsky. At age 15 she auditioned in London with Maria Curcio, a student of Artur Schnabel – on this trip she also met her future husband, Jeremy Greensmith – and at age 18 she dropped out of The Juilliard School of Music to study in London with Curcio for six years. She later attended Juilliard and
2019-12-16 15:20:41
Beethoven plus Uchida, Huberman, and Reiner, 2019
This Week in Classical Music: December 16, 2019. Beethoven plus Uchida, Huberman, and Reiner. Next year we’ll be celebrating Beethoven’s 250th anniversary – he was born in Bonn on this day in 1770. We’ll have many occasions to celebrate this event in 2020, but right now we’ll focus on three interpretations of Beethoven’s work, by a pianist, a violinist, and by a conductor, all three of whom were born this week. The marvelous Japanese pianist living in Britain, Mitzuko Uchida is known as a superb Mozartean, but she’s equally good in Beethoven. Dame Uchida, a citizen of the UK, was born near Tokyo on December 20th of 1948. Her father was a diplomat, and the family moved to Austria when Mitzuko was 12. She studied at the Vienna Academy of Music; among her teachers were Wilhelm Kempff and Maria Curcio. In 1982 she played all of the Mozart sonatas in London […]
2018-06-04 03:49:18
Schumann, Albinoni, Argerich, Mravinsky 2018
[…] Ar-khe-rich in Spanish, although American announcers usually pronounce it with a “g,” not “kh,” and make a mess of the last consonant) was born in Buenos Aires. She’s Catalan Spanish on her father’s side and Russian Jewish on the maternal side. Argerich started playing piano at the age of three and studied music in Buenos Aires till the age of 14, when her family moved to Europe. There among her teachers were Friedrich Gulda, Maria Curcio, Abbey Simon, and Nikita Magaloff. She also took several lessons with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. At the age of 16 she won two competitions in a row, the 1957 Geneva Competition and the Feruccio Busoni. In 1965, Argerich won the Chopin competition in Warsaw; her playing there caused a sensation. That year she made her US debut. Very soon she was acknowledged as one of the most exciting pianists of the generation. Her recital career […]
2017-01-04 13:16:00
Anthony Goldstone 1944 - 2017
[…] hewn rhythms, warmth, a touch displaying the qualities of colour and cantabile, in addition to possessing a sure technique and real strength… astonishingly profound spiritual penetration.’ Anthony Goldstone was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (later the Royal Northern College of Music) where his piano professor was Derrick Wyndham. The RMCM was to later honour him with a Fellowship. He went on to study in London with Maria Curcio, one of Schnabel’s greatest pupils, making him a sixth-generation pupil of Beethoven. International prizes in Munich and Vienna followed as well as a Gulbenkian Fellowship which launched a busy schedule of recitals and concertos taking him across Europe and to North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australasia. There were prestigious festival invitations and many broadcasts as well as numerous London appearances including Promenade Concerts, notably the Last Night, after which Benjamin […]
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