Jerome Lowenthal
Jerome Lowenthal (born February 11, 1932 in Philadelphia) is an American classical pianist. He is chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York.[1] Additionally, Lowenthal is on the faculty at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.[2]
He made his debut at 13 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Returning to the United States from Jerusalem in 1963, he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic, playing Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2. Since then, he has performed with famous conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Seiji Ozawa, Michael Tilson Thomas, Yuri Temirkanov, Leonard Slatkin, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, Pierre Monteux, Josef Krips,[3] and Leopold Stokowski. He has played sonatas with Itzhak Perlman, piano duos with Ronit Amir, and with Ursula Oppens,[4] as well as quintets with the Lark Quartet, Avalon Quartet, and Shanghai Quartet.
His studies included lessons with Olga Samaroff in Philadelphia, William Kapell and Eduard Steuermann at the Juilliard School in New York, and Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in Paris, France. A prizewinner at Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels (1960) and Busoni Competition, he is a frequent judge in international piano competitions.
He is recognized as a specialist of Franz Liszt, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Béla Bartók, and more generally of virtuoso and late romantic music. His recordings include piano concertos by Liszt with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the complete Tchaikovsky concerto cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra. He has an extensive repertoire, including 59 performed piano concerti. He is the dedicatee of many new works, such as Ned Rorem's Piano Concerto (No. 3) in Six Movements, and has unearthed some rare romantic piano works, such as the Liszt Third Piano Concerto edited by his former student Jay Rosenblatt.
References
- ^ Burwasser, Peter (August 20, 2014). "Interview with Pianist Jerome Lowenthal". Fanfare. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
- ^ "About". Music Academy of the West. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "KRIPS CONDUCTOR AT PHILHARMONIC; Jerome Lowenthal Soloist in Bartok Piano Concerto". The New York Times. 1963-10-25. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
- ^ Schweitzer, Vivien (May 27, 2009). "The Dizzying Palette of Messiaen and the Darkness of Debussy Spring From Four Hands". The New York Times. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
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