- Jerome Lowenthal
Jerome Lowenthal (born
February 11 ,1932 inPhiladelphia ) is an American classical pianist. He is a professor of piano at theJuilliard School in New York, where he was also chair of the piano department. Additionally, Lowenthal is on the faculty at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara,California .He made his debut at 13 with the
Philadelphia Orchestra . Returning to theUnited States fromJerusalem 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 suchDaniel Barenboim ,Seiji Ozawa ,Michael Tilson Thomas ,Yuri Temirkanov ,Leonard Slatkin ,Leonard Bernstein ,Eugene Ormandy ,Pierre Monteux , andLeopold Stokowski . He has played sonatas withItzhak Perlman , piano duos with Ronit Amir, his late wife andUrsula Oppens , as well as quintets with the Lark Quartet, Avalon Quartet, andShanghai Quartet .His studies included lessons with
Olga Samaroff in Philadelphia,William Kapell andEduard Steuermann at theJuilliard School inNew York , andAlfred Cortot at theÉcole Normale de Musique de Paris inParis ,France . A prizewinner atQueen Elisabeth Music Competition inBrussels (1960) andBusoni 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 theVancouver Symphony Orchestra and the complete Tchaikovsky concerto cycle with theLondon Symphony Orchestra . He has an extensive repertoire, including 59 performed piano concerti, and is the dedicatee of many new works and has unearthed some rare romantic piano works, such as the Liszt Third Piano Concerto edited by his former student Jay Rosenblatt.
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