Alfred Kanwischer

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Alfred Kanwischer is an American pianist, music educator and scholar.

The student of the Dutch pianist Egon Petri has performed as a piano soloist in the USA (including in Lincoln Center , New York, in the Jordan Hall in Boston and at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco), in Europe ( Wigmore Hall , Concertgebouw ) and Asia Radio recordings among others with the BBC . As a duo with his wife Heidi Kanwischer , he was under contract with the New York Albert Kay Concert Artists Management for 25 years .

He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University , where he taught piano for eleven years, and is Professor Emeritus at the Music School of San José State University . He has given lectures, lecture concerts, master classes and seminars at Boston University and Harvard University , the Tanglewood Festival and the Sunriver Music Festival , the College Music Society and the American Beethoven Society . Even after his retirement he was regularly visited by students in his home in North Carolina.

Kanwischer published musicological articles, especially on Bach , Beethoven and Brahms , in magazines such as American Music Teacher , the Beethoven Journal , the Journal of the American Liszt Society and the journals of the Music Teacher's Association in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Tennessee and California. Rowman & Littlefield published his book From Bach's Goldberg to Beethoven's Diabelli: Influence and Independence .

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SURNAME Kanwischer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist, music educator and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century