Jerome Lowenthal

Jerome Lowenthal (born February 11, 1932 in Philadelphia ) is an American pianist .

Life

Lowenthal gave his first public concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1945 . At the Curtis Institute of Music in his hometown he began piano studies with Olga Samaroff , which he continued with William Kapell and Eduard Steuermann at the Juilliard School in New York City. With a Fulbright scholarship , he spent 1956 in Paris, where he was taught by Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique .

In 1957 he reached second place with Ivan Davis at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano . In the same year, 1957, he was also awarded the first prize of the Kranichstein Music Prize (piano). In 1960 he was a finalist at the Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth in Brussels.

He lived and worked in Jerusalem for three years ( Academy and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ). Concert tours have taken him all over the world. He has given concerts with various ensembles and musicians, a. a. Ursula Oppens . He has a wide repertoire; George Rochberg and Ned Rorem dedicated pieces to him. However, only a few recordings have been made, for example with the Louisville Orchestra and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra . In his complete recordings of piano concertos he dedicated himself to the composers Tchaikovsky and Liszt . His Gershwin recordings became famous in Germany . Lowenthal worked on a revitalization of Béla Bartók .

In 1970 he became a summer lecturer at the Music Academy of the West in Montecito, California and in 1990 professor of piano at the Juilliard School in New York City.

Lowenthal holds an honorary doctorate from the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 2016 his recording was The People United Will Never Be Defeated! ( Frederic Rzewski ) nominated as best classical instrumental solo for the Grammy Awards .

The Jerome Lowenthal Collection is preserved in the International Piano Archives at Maryland of the University of Maryland Libraries.

literature

• Ingo Harden : Jerome Lowenthal . In: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: Pianist profiles: 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , pp. 456f.

Web links

• Jerome Lowenthal at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ingo Harden : Jerome Lowenthal . In: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: Pianist profiles: 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , pp. 456f.
2. ↑ Jerome Lowenthal , summeracademyofmusic.com, accessed January 30, 2018.
3. ↑ Jerome Lowenthal Collection , digital.lib.umd.edu, accessed January 30, 2018.