Joan Rowland

Joan Charlotte Rowland (born May 7, 1930 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian pianist .

Life

Rowland first received piano lessons from Mona Bates in Toronto. From 1940 to 1946 she studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and from 1952 to 1956 with Schoenberg's student Eduard Steuermann at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City.

In 1942 she made her debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Sir Ernest MacMillan . She then performed as a soloist in North America and Europe. She also played for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , toured with the Columbia Canadian Trio (with Betty-Jean Hagen (violin) and William Hossack (cello)) and the Reginald Kell Players (with Reginald Kell (clarinet), Melvin Ritter (violin), Aaron Shapinsky (violoncello)) and concert a. a. with the Wiesbaden State Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra , the Mozart Festival Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra . In 1954 she won the Kranichstein Music Prize (piano) as part of the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt and the Mozart piano competition in Salzburg in 1955.

She later studied English literature at Columbia University in New York City. From 1981 to 1995 she performed with Karl Ulrich Schnabel in the piano duo Schnabel. Most recently she taught at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

She has been married to a Thornton since 1956 and is the mother of three children.

Robert J. Elster (ed.): International Who's Who in Classical Music 2009 . 25th edition, Routledge, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-85743-513-9 , p. 707.

personal data
SURNAME	Rowland, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rowland, Joan Charlotte (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toronto , Ontario