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He was born in New York City and is the son of one of the world's leading pianists, Rudolf Serkin, and grandson of the legendary violinist Adolf Busch. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991) was an Austrian pianist. ... PENIS ...

Serkin began studying at Curtis Institute of Music when he was just 11 years old, in 1958. He graduated in 1965; his teachers included the great Polish pianist Mieczysław Horszowski, Lee Luvisi, and his father. He has also studied with Ernst Oster, flutist Marcel Moyse, and Karl Ulrich Schnabel. His concert career began in 1959, when he first performed at the Marlboro Music Festival; following that performance, he was also invited to play with major orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy. The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... MieczysÅ‚aw Horszowski (b. ... Marcel Moyse (17 May 1889 - 1 November 1984) was a famous French flute player, for whom many pieces were written. ... Karl Ulrich Schnabel (born August 6, 1909 in Berlin) was a German classical pianist. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Marlboro Music Festival is a music festival founded in 1951 by Rudolf Serkin and Adolf Busch. ... The Cleveland Orchestra is one of the major symphony orchestras in the United States. ... George Szell, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954 György Széll, best known by his Anglicised name George Szell (June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970) was a conductor and composer. ... The Philadelphia Orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the Big Five symphony orchestras in the United States and usually considered among the finest in the world. ... Eugene Ormandy in the 1950s Eugene Ormandy (November 18, 1899 – March 12, 1985) was a conductor and violinist. ...

In 1966, at the age of 19, Serkin was awarded the Grammy Award for Best New Classical Artist|Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist. Three of his recordings since then have won Grammy nominations (one of them featuring six Mozart concertos; the two others feature the music of Messaien) and his recordings have won other awards. Serkin was the first pianist to receive the Premio Internazionale Musicale Chigiana award, and received an honorary doctorate from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2001. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Olivier Messiaen It has been suggested that List of students of Olivier Messiaen be merged into this article or section. ... New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1968, shortly after marrying and becoming a father, Peter Serkin decided to stop playing music altogether. In the winter of 1971, he and his wife and young child moved to a small rural town in Mexico. About eight months later, on a Sunday morning, Serkin heard Bach being broadcast over the radio from a neighbor's house. As he listened, he says, "It became clear to me that I should play." He returned to the U. S. and began his musical career anew.

Since then, Serkin has performed around the world with leading orchestras and such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle, James Levine, and Christoph Eschenbach. He has made numerous recordings, featuring music from Bach (including four recordings of the Goldberg Variations - the first made when he was 18, the fourth when he was 47), Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, and Dvorak as well as numerous more recent composers such as Messaien, Takemitsu, Oliver Knussen, Webern, Lieberson, and Schoenberg. Claudio Abbado (born June 26, 1933) is a noted Italian conductor. ... Daniel Barenboim conducting. ... Herbert Blomstedt was born 1927 in Springfield, Massachusetts to Swedish parents, and moved to Sweden at age 2. ... Pierre Boulez Pierre Boulez (IPA: /pjɛʁ.buˈlÉ›z/) (born March 26, 1925) is a conductor and composer of classical music. ... Simon Rattle recording Porgy and Bess with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road in 1988 Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE OL (born January 19, 1955) is an English conductor. ... James Levine (born June 23, 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American orchestral pianist and conductor and most well known as the music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. ... Christoph Eschenbach (born February 20, 1940 in Breslau, Germany (today WrocÅ‚aw, Poland) is a noted pianist and conductor. ... The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, are a set of 30 keyboard variations by Johann Sebastian Bach. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer of Classical music, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. ... For the crater on the moon, see Schubert (crater) Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828), was an Austrian composer. ... Frédéric François Chopin as portrayed by Eugène Delacroix in 1838. ... Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897) was a German composer of classical music. ... Dvořák is a common Czech surname (feminine form is Dvořáková). Spelling without diacritics is Dvorak. ... Olivier Messiaen It has been suggested that List of students of Olivier Messiaen be merged into this article or section. ... Tōru Takemitsu (武満 å¾¹ Takemitsu Tōru, October 8, 1930–February 20, 1996) was a Japanese composer of music, and four time winner of the Japanese Academy Award, who explored the compositional principles of Western classical music and his native Japanese tradition both in isolation and in combination. ... Oliver Knussen (born June 12, 1952) is a British composer and conductor. ... Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was a composer of classical music and a member of the so called Second Viennese School. ... Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 Arnold Schoenberg, (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he became a U.S. citizen) (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was a composer, born in Vienna, Austria. ...

Serkin is an unwavering advocate of contemporary music; many new works have been written for him to debut by such composers as Toru Takemitsu, Peter Lieberson, Oliver Knussen, Elliot Carter and Charles Wuorinen. The American composer Ned Rorem writes of Serkin, "His uniqueness lies, as I hear it, in a friendly rather than over-awed approach to the classics, which nonetheless plays with the care and brio that is in the family blood, and he's not afraid to be ugly. He approaches contemporary music with the same depth as he does the classics, and he is unique among the superstars in that he approaches it at all." (Quoted by Conroy; see below.) Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹 Takemitsu Tōru, October 8, 1930 - February 20, 1996) was a Japanese composer of music, who explored the compositional principles of Western classical music and his native Japanese tradition both in isolation and in combination. ... Peter Lieberson (born 25 October 1946 New York City) is an American composer. ... Oliver Knussen (born June 12, 1952) is a British composer and conductor. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Charles Wuorinen (born June 9, 1938 in New York City) is an American composer. ... Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923) is a noted American composer and diarist. ...

Peter Serkin was one of the first major pianists to experiment with period fortepianos, and the first to record late Beethoven sonatas on both a period piano and a modern one.

Serkin has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Alexander Schneider, Pamela Frank, the Guarneri, Andras Schiff, Budapest and Orion string quartets and other prominent musicians and ensembles. In addition, he is one of the founding members of TASHI and has recorded for a variety of labels. He has five children and two grandchildren and lives in Massachusetts with his wife Regina. He has taught at Juilliard and Curtis and teaches at Bard College as well as other institutions. Yo-Yo Ma (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: ; family name: Ma) (born October 7, 1955) is a Chinese American cellist, considered one of todays finest practitioners of the cello in the world. ... Pamela Frank is an American violinist, equally well known as a soloist and as an exponent of chamber music. ... 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. ... András Schiff (born December 21, 1953) is a Hungarian-born classical pianist. ... The Budapest Quartet was in existence from 1917 to 1967. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. ... The name Curtis is a common given or last name, of English origin. ... For other meanings of the word Bard, see Bard (disambiguation). ...

References

• Artist biography, program of concert given September 30, 2006 by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

• Frank Conroy, Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On (New York, 2002), pp. 186- 195.

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External links

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