Todd Crow
Todd Crow (born July 25, 1945 in Santa Barbara , California ) is an American pianist and music teacher .
Crow graduated from the University of California , the Juilliard School of Music, and the Music Academy of the West . His teachers included Erno Dániel , Ania Dorfmann and Emanuel Bay . He received a composition scholarship from the Epstein Foundation of Chicago at the age of thirteen and won the Santa Barbara Symphony Young Artists Competition at the age of fifteen . Since 1969 he has been teaching at Vassar College , where he is the George Sherman Dickinson Professor of Music.
As a pianist, Crow et al. a. in England, Italy, Issrael and the Czech Republic, in the National Gallery of Art (Washington), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Wigmore Hall (London) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). He made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican Center in 1986 and with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 1992, and has worked with ensembles such as the Daedalus Quartet , the Jupiter Quartet and the Miró String Quartet and renowned soloists including Benny Goodman . In 1986 he received the University of California's Distinguished Alumni Award .
Crow has been the pianist and musical director of the Mt Desert Festival of Chamber Music in Northeast Harbor, Maine since 1996 . On CD he recorded a. a. Sonatas by Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert , Liszt's piano transcription of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique , compositions by Sergei Tanejew and Ernst von Dohnányi , Ernst Toch's First Piano Concerto and (with Mark Shuman ) all of Mendelssohn's compositions for cello and piano.
Web links
- Homepage of Todd Crow
- Vassar College Department of Music - Todd Crow
- Mt Desert Festival of Chamber Music - Todd Crow
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| SURNAME | Crow, Todd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pianist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Barbara , California |