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Constance Keene (9 February 1921 – 24 December 2005) was an American pianist, who was renowned for her 1964 recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Preludes and won critical acclaim for her recordings of the works of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn, as well as Rachmaninoff's Études-Tableaux, Op. 33 and Études-Tableaux, Op. 39.
Evans's piano style has also influenced some contemporary classical composers. The noted Hungarian composer György Ligeti admired Evans and acknowledged his influence in an interview, adding, "As far as touch is concerned, Bill Evans is a sort of Michelangeli of jazz" (in reference to the great classical pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli ...
A performance of the Goldberg Variations. Born in Bonn, Germany, Douglass-Ishizaka (known as Ishizaka) started playing the piano at age four, was a member of the Ishizaka Trio for 16 years with her brothers and graduated from Hochschule für Musik Köln.
Leonard Pennario (July 9, 1924 – June 27, 2008) was an American classical pianist and composer.. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles, attending Los Angeles High School remaining in L.A. for his entire career.
Valentina Lisitsa at the piano in 2010. Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine).Her mother, also named Valentina, is a seamstress and her father, Evgeny, was an engineer. [5]
Piano purportedly by Johann Andreas Stein (Augsburg, 1775), Berlin, Musikinstrumentenmuseum, but probably by Louis Dulcken in imitation of Stein's work Johann (Georg) Andreas Stein (16 May 1728 – 29 February 1792) was an outstanding German maker of keyboard instruments, a central figure in the history of the piano .
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Gonzalez was born and raised in Miami, where she was a chorister and taught herself piano and guitar, taking up the latter at seventeen. [2] She has said of her beginnings: I was in choir from a very early age. It was kind of my life since I was about eight. But I didn't know what that would mean for me when I was an adult, or as a career.
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