Lorin Hollander

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Lorin Hollander (born July 19, 1944 in New York ) is an American pianist .

Life

Hollander, who came from a family of musicians, showed a prodigious early maturity: brought to music by his father, the violinist Max Hollander, he began to compose simple pieces of music at the age of three and played parts from Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier at the age of five .

In 1955 he made his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall at the age of 11 . At the Juilliard School he first studied with Eduard Steuermann and later went to Leon Fleisher . In 1959 Hollander stepped in as a concert soloist for Van Cliburn .

In 1965 he made his first European tour, which was followed by other trips, for example to Japan and Korea. In 1969 he appeared in Bill Graham's Fillmore East musical theater .

In the further course of his career he sometimes abandoned the real path of the interpreter by dealing with topics of practical psychology - such as stage fright , the development problems of adolescents - and performing in homes and prisons. In addition to his concerts, he gave numerous lectures and seminars on psychological topics. He holds multiple honorary doctorates and advises the American government on issues relating to the promotion of the gifted .

Interpretation and reception

Hollander's appearance at Bill Graham and his concerts in homes, prisons and hospitals show that he is one of those musicians who - like Friedrich Gulda , for example , who turned to jazz - deviate from or want to complement the usual virtuoso career. He felt that the classical performer had to polish the current repertoire on a daily basis as a chore that he wanted to avoid by opening up to popular music such as that of the Beatles and dealing with social or ecological issues.

His interpretations, which always showed an artistically individual profile, were characterized by technical precision right from the start of his career and avoided deep, changing sonorities or superficial emotionality. This gave his performance of Aram Chatschaturjan's intoxicating piano concerto a non-conformist, but also peculiarly intellectually brittle character. Many of his encores - such as the inevitable Rimsky-Korsakov's flight of the bumblebee - were drawn with technical precision, but occasionally revealed a gruff, sometimes even rude tone.

On the other hand, the recording of a Fillmore East performance with Bach's E minor Partita and the tricky Piano Sonata in B flat major op. 83 by Sergei Prokofjew demonstrated a successful combination of sublime, detailed interpretation with manual perfection.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information from: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes, PianistenProfile 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings, Lorin Hollander, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, p. 318
  2. ↑ Biographical information from: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes, PianistenProfile 600 performers: Their biography, their style, their recordings, Lorin Hollander, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, p. 319
  3. ↑ Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes, PianistenProfile 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings, Lorin Hollander, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, p. 318
personal data
SURNAME Hollander, Lorin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH new York