Ivan Davis

Ivan Davis

:"See also Ivan Davis (politician) for the unionist in Northern Ireland."

Ivan Davis (born February 4, 1932 in Electra, Texas) is an American classical pianist. He received his bachelor's degree in music from North Texas State University, and an Artist's Diploma from the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. Davis studied under Silvio Scionti, Carlo Zecchi and played regularly for Vladimir Horowitz. He debuted at New York City's Town Hall in 1959.

Davis made his international debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He has toured the world with several major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Spain. He has performed under such world-famous conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy and Lorin Maazel. He is listed in the "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", and has received the Handel Medallion from New York City for contributions to the city's cultural life.

He recorded for the Columbia and London labels in the 1960s and 1970s.

Since 1966, Davis has been a professor of music at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.


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