Ida Krehm

Ida Krehm (born February 24, 1912 in Toronto , † August 12, 1998 in San José , Costa Rica ) was a Canadian-American pianist, conductor and music teacher.

The daughter of Russian immigrants studied piano with Ernest J. Farmer , Norah Drewett de Kresz and Viggo Kihl and music theory with Healey Willan . She won several piano prizes and started teaching at the age of 13. She had her first public appearance in 1924 at Bloor Street United Church in Toronto. In 1919 she went to Chicago to continue her training with Rudolph Ganz . There she married the textile merchant, pianist and composer Joseph Richard Pick in 1936 . In 1944 she received American citizenship. In 1937 she won the Schubert Memorial Award (with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy ), the Prize of the National Federation of Music Clubs and the Naumburg Foundation Award .

Krehm made her professional debut in Canada in 1939 at Hart House at the University of Toronto . In the following years she traveled as a soloist through North and South America and Europe. Ernest Bloch selected her for the world premiere of his Scherzo fantastique in 1950 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . She has also given world premieres of works by contemporary composers such as Norman Dello Joio , Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis , Rudolph Ganz , Carlos Surinach , Alexandre Tansman and Alexander Nikolajewitsch Tscherepnin .

From 1958 Krehm lived in Hampstead, England. In 1962 she appeared for the first time in the dual function of pianist and conductor in Hilversum. This was followed by other appearances of this kind in Berlin, London, Toronto and Trondheim, at the Orvieto Festival , in India and in the Philippines. She lived in Switzerland in the 1970s and spent the last two years of her life in Costa Rica. Her family donated the Ida Krehm Memorial Scholarship at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

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• Ida Krehm ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .
• Naxos - Ida Krehm