Edward Auer

Edward Auer (born December 7, 1941 in New York City) is an American classical pianist of Hungarian descent. Auer is currently a Professor of Piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

While growing up in Los Angeles, Auer studied piano under Aube Tzerko and composition with Leonard Stein. Auer continued his studies at the Julliard School of Music under the tutelage of Rosina Lhévinne and for two years in Paris on a Fulbright Study Grant under Julius Katchen.

Auer was a prize winner at the prestigious 7th Chopin International Piano Competition (1965). He was the first American to win a prize at the competition.

Since his Carnegie Hall debut in 1966, performing Frédéryk Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor with the New York Symphony Orchestra, Auer has spent his career playing extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Since 1965, Auer has performed more than twenty times in Poland alone.

References

1. ^Edward Auer, a biography at the Fryderyk Chopin Institute