Mark Birnbaum (musician)

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Mark Birnbaum (born February 11, 1952 ) is an American pianist and composer who mainly interprets ragtime .

Act

Birnbaum is a classically trained composer and pianist; he received his PhD in music from Columbia University in 1982 . In 1983 he composed and directed the off-Broadway show A Day Together . Encouraged by Andy Warhol , Vladimir Horowitz and Eubie Blake , he switched to ragtime, blues and jazz and performed successfully in Birdland , The Angry Squire and other New York clubs. Later, the 13th Street Theater was mostly his concert stage in New York City . Between 1990 and 1993 he worked every night (dressed in flashy clothes) as a pianist on Joe Franklin 's TV show on WWOR-TVwhich attracted national attention. He also works as a model.

Birnbaum has received more than twenty composition commissions from Meet the Composer since 1979 . In 2005, Birnbaum was awarded the honorary title of the Neupauer Conservatory of Music for his work . In 2008 he received the ERM Media Prize for his Louisiana Elegy for Piano & Strings . In 2015, Cedric Brelet from Sydow's documentary Melody Memoires was made about him .

Discographic notes

  • Ragtime Trip-Hop (2010)
  • Mark Birnbaum & William Schimmel Weather Watch Free Jazz (2009)
  • Joplin, Debussy & Scriabin: Cool Piano (2006)
  • Jelly Roll Morton's Missing New Orleans (2006)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography (CD baby)
  2. ↑ Melody Memoires in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Pear Tree, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1952