Howard Lebow

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Howard Lebow (born 1935 in New Jersey , † 1968 in Amherst , Massachusetts ) was an American pianist .

Life

Lebow, a student of Erich Itor Kahn and Eduard Steuermann , studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City (Master in 1959) and was awarded the Morris Loeb Memorial Prize there. The Fulbright scholarship holder attended the State University of Music Hamburg and the International Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg, and during the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt he was honored twice with the Kranichstein Music Prize: third prize (1960) and second prize (1961). There he also attended a course given by Karlheinz Stockhausen . After his debut in Manhattan in 1963, he gave concerts in fifteen countries. In 1964 he became assistant professor of piano at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst). In January 1968 he died as a result of a car accident . The Department of Music at UMass Amherst set up a scholarship in his honor.

Discography

  • 2016: Darmstadt Aural Documents (Neos) with Howard Lebow (piano) a. a. - Roger Sessions : From My Diary. Four pieces

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Howard Lebow third performer in Music series , UC San Diego, University Archives RSS 6020, accessed May 15, 2018.
  2. Milestones: Jan. 26, 1968 , content.time.com, accessed May 15, 2018.