Murray Perahia
Background information
Born	April 19, 1947 (1947-04-19) (age 60) New York City, New York, USA
Genre(s)	Classical
Occupation(s)	Conductor, Pianist
Instrument(s)	Piano
Label(s)	Sony Classical
Associated acts	Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Budapest Quartet Guarneri Quartet
Website	www.MurrayPerahia.com

Murray Perahia (b. April 19, 1947) is a distinguished American concert pianist. He is also a respected conductor. His recordings are characterized by a consistent quality of sound, technique and interpretation and a careful attention to dynamic and stylistic details. Murray Perahia in a press photo. ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... New York, New York redirects here. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Classical music is a term with three distinct meanings: The European tradition of music which is associated with high culture, as distinct from popular or folk forms (including works in this tradition in non-European countries). ... A conductor conducting a band at a ceremony A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... Pianist Claudio Arrau, Carnegie Hall, 1954. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Sony Classical is the successor to the Columbia and CBS Masterworks labels, assuming its new identity after the purchase of CBS Records by Sony Corporation. ... The Academy of St. ... The Budapest Quartet was in existence from 1917 to 1967. ... The Guarneri Quartet is an American string quartet founded in 1964, comprised as of 2005 of Arnold Steinhardt (1st violin), John Dalley (2nd violin), Michael Tree (viola), and Peter Wiley, cello. ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Pianist Claudio Arrau, Carnegie Hall, 1954. ... A conductor conducting a band at a ceremony A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ...

Career

Early career

Perahia was born in New York City of Ladino Jewish origin, and began playing the piano at four but he didn't start practising seriously until age fifteen. At seventeen, he attended Mannes College, where he studied keyboard, conducting, and composition with his teacher and mentor Mieczysław Horszowski. During the summer, he also attended Marlboro, where he studied with Rudolf Serkin, and Pablo Casals, amongst others. Nickname: Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1625 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - City  468. ... This article deals with the Judaeo-Spanish language. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... The Mannes College of Music is a music school located in New York City, in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. ... Mieczysław Horszowski (June 23, 1892-May 22, 1993) was a US pianist of Polish birth. ... The Marlboro Music School and Festival is a retreat for advanced classical training and musicianship held for seven weeks each summer in Marlboro, Vermont. ... Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991) was an Austrian pianist. ... Casals redirects here. ...

In 1972, he won the fourth Leeds Piano Competition, helping to cement its reputation for advancing the careers of young pianistic talent. Dr. Fanny Waterman recalls anecdotally (in Wendy Thompson's book Piano Competition: The Story of the Leeds) that Horszowski had phoned her prior to the competition, announcing that he would enter the winner. Other American contestants had apparently withdrawn their applications upon hearing that Perahia would be competing. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Fanny Waterman, DBE (Born in Leeds 22/3/1920) her father, Myer Waterman, a Russian Jew, had emigrated to England to work as a jeweller. ...

In 1973 he worked with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears at the Aldeburgh Festival. He co-artistic director of the Festival from 1981 to 1989. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (November 22, 1913 Lowestoft, Suffolk - December 4, 1976 Aldeburgh, Suffolk) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. ... Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (June 22, 1910 – April 3, 1986) was an English tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten. ... The Aldeburgh Festival is an English festival, largely revolving around classical music. ...

Perahia held a close acquaintance with the much older Vladimir Horowitz, who had a defining influence on his pianism. Vladimir Samoylovych Horowitz (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ) (1 October 1903 – 5 November 1989) was a Ukrainian-born, American classical pianist. ...

His first major recording project was the complete piano concertos by Mozart, conducted from the keyboard with the English Chamber Orchestra. In the 1980s, he also recorded the complete portfolio of Beethoven piano concerti, with Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. A piano concerto is a concerto for solo piano and orchestra. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (IPA: , baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. ... The English Chamber Orchestra is a small (hence chamber) orchestra based in London. ... portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820 Ludwig van Beethoven (IPA: ), (baptised December 17, 1770[1] – March 26, 1827) was a German composer. ... Bernard Johan Herman Haitink CH KBE (born March 4, 1929) is a Dutch conductor. ... The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Dutch: Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, KCO) is the best-known and most respected symphonic orchestra in the Netherlands, and is generally considered to be among the worlds finest orchestras. ...

Injury and later career

In 1990, Perahia suffered a cut to his right thumb, which became septic. He took antibiotics for this condition, but they affected his health.^[1] In 1992, his career was threatened by a bone abnormality in his hand causing inflammation requiring several years away from the keyboard, and a series of surgeries. During that time, he reportedly listened to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. After being given the all-clear, he produced in the late nineties a series of award-winning recordings of Bach's keyboard works, most notably a cornerstone rendition of the Goldberg variations. This has caused him to be regarded as a latter-day Bach specialist. MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Bach in a 1748 portrait by Haussmann Places in which Bach resided throughout his life Johann Sebastian Bach (pronounced ) (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the... The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, original title Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen[1] published as Clavierübung, bestehend in einer Aria. ...

He has since made recordings of Frédéric Chopin's etudes, and of Franz Schubert's late piano sonatas. He is currently editing a new Urtext edition of Beethoven's piano sonatas. The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin, believed to have been taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849. ... An etude (from the French word étude meaning study) is a short musical composition designed to provide practice in a particular technical skill in the performance of a solo instrument. ... Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. ... A piano sonata is a sonata written for unaccompanied piano. ... An urtext edition of a work of classical music is a printed version intended to reproduce the original intention of the composer as exactly as possible, without any added or changed material. ... portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820 Ludwig van Beethoven (IPA: ), (baptised December 17, 1770[1] – March 26, 1827) was a German composer. ...

Besides his solo career, he is active in chamber music and appears regularly with the Guarneri and Budapest Quartets. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields orchestra, with which he records and performs. The Guarneri Quartet is an American string quartet founded in 1964, comprised as of 2005 of Arnold Steinhardt (1st violin), John Dalley (2nd violin), Michael Tree (viola), and Peter Wiley, cello. ... The Budapest Quartet was in existence from 1917 to 1967. ... The Academy of St. ...

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In early 2006, Perahia's hand problem recurred, prompting him to withdraw from the concert stage on the advice of his doctors. He cancelled several appearances at London's Barbican as well as a ten-city national tour in the United States, but has returned in fine form with recitals in German cities in 2006 and at the Barbican in April 2007. Barbican in Kraków Barbican (from mediæval Latin barbecana) - a fortified outpost or gateway, such as an outer defence to a city or castle and any tower situated over a gate or bridge which was used for defence purposes. ...

His older son is currently enlisted in the Israeli army and his younger son Raphael, attends Emory University and is a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity Emory University is a private university located in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. ... The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) fraternity is an American college social fraternity founded in 1824 at Princeton University, in 1858 at the University of North Carolina, and in 1860 at Hobart College, making it the oldest college social Greek-letter society and the only college Greek-letter society to have historical foundings...

Awards and Recognitions

Seventh International Schumann Festival

• 2000 Robert Schumann Society Claudio Arrau Memorial Medal

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• 1989 Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion

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• 2003 Chopin: Études, Op. 10, Op. 25
• 1999 Bach: English Suites no. 1, no. 3, no. 6

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Discography

1980s

• Schubert: Wanderer Fantasie; Schumann: Fantasie in C Major (1986)
• Mozart, Beethoven: Quintets for piano and Winds (1986)
• Mozart: Sonata (K. 448); Schubert: Piano sonata for four hands (1986) — with Radu Lupu
• Beethoven: Piano concertos nos. 3 and 4 (1986)
• Brahms: Piano quartet (1987)
• Beethoven: Piano sonatas nos. 17, 18 and 26 (1987)
• Beethoven: Piano concerto no. 5 (Emperor) (1987)
• A Portrait of Murray Perahia (1987)
• Mendelssohn: Piano concertos nos. 1 and 2 (CD 1987, but recorded in 1974 and originally issued on LP) — with Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
• Mozart: Piano concertos nos. 11, 12 and 14 (1987)
• Mozart: Piano concertos nos. 22 and 24 (1987)
• Chopin: Piano concerto no. 1, Barcarolle, etc. (1987)
• Beethoven: Piano concertos nos. 1 and 2 (1987)
• Mozart: Piano concertos nos. 9 and 21 (1987)
• Schumann: Symphonic études, posthumous études, Papillons; Chopin: Piano sonatas nos. 2 and 3 (1988)
• Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze; Fantasiestücke (1988)
• Beethoven: The five piano concertos (1988) — with Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
• Schumann: Piano sonata, (op. 22), Schubert: piano sonata (D. 959) (1988)
• Bartók: Sonata for 2 pianos and percussion; Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn (1988)
• Schumann, Grieg: Piano concertos (1989)

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1990s

• Chopin: Piano concertos nos. 1 and 2 (1990)
• Murray Perahia in Performance (1991)
• Murray Perahia Plays Franck and Liszt (1991)
• Brahms: Sonata no. 3, Rhapsodies, etc. (1991)
• Mozart: Concertos for 2 and 3 pianos, Andante and variations for piano four hands (1991) with Radu Lupu
• Mozart: Piano concertos nos. 21 and 27 (1991)
• The Aldeburgh Recital (1991)
• Mozart: Piano sonatas (K. 310, 333, and 533) (1992)
• Bach: Harpsichord concertos (1993)
• Immortal Beloved Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1994)
• Greatest Hits: Grieg (1994)
• Chopin: Ballades, Waltzes, Mazurkas, etc. (1995)
• Beethoven: Piano sonatas (op. 2, nos. 1–3) (1995)
• Murray Perahia: 25th Anniversary Edition (1997)
• Schumann: Kreisleriana, Piano sonata no. 1 (1997)
• Schumann: Complete works for piano and orchestra (1997) — with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
• Murray Perahia Plays Handel and Scarlatti (1997)
• Bach: English suites nos. 1, 3 and 6 (1998)
• Songs Without Words: Bach/Busoni, Mendelssohn and Schubert–Liszt (1999)
• Mozart: Piano concertos nos. 20 and 27 (1999)
• Glenn Gould at the Movies (1999)
• Bach: English suites nos. 2, 4 and 5 (1999)

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From 2000

• Bach: Goldberg Variations (2000)
• Chopin: Etudes (2001)
• Bach: Keyboard concertos volume 1, nos. 1, 2 and 4 (2001)
• Bach: Keyboard concertos nos. 3, 5, 6, 7 (2002)
• Schubert: Late piano sonatas (2003)
• Murray Perahia Plays Bach (2003)
• Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 127; Piano Sonata, Op. 101 (2004) (The string quartet, op. 127 is transcribed for full string orchestra and conducted by Murray Perahia)

Videography

• Murray Perahia in Performance (1992)
• Mozart: Piano concertos nos 21 & 27 in rehearsal and performance (1992)
• Schubert: Winterreise (with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
• Beethoven piano concertos nos 1 & 3 (1988)
• Beethoven piano concertos nos 2 & 4 (1988)
• Beethoven piano concerto no. 5 (1988)

References

External links

• Murray Perahia at Sony Classical