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Peter Serkin (born July 24, 1947) is a distinguished American pianist. Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A pianist (/'piənɪst/ is a Musician who plays the Piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces play with an ensemble or Orchestra

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 influential violinist Adolf Busch, whose daughter Irene had married Rudolf Serkin. The City of New York Rudolf Serkin ( March 28, 1903 &ndash May 8, 1991) was a Bohemian-born Pianist. Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch ( August 8, 1891 &ndash June 9, 1952) was a German -born Violinist and Composer. (Peter was given the middle name Adolf in honor of his grandfather, according to Rudolf Serkin: A life by Stephen Lehmann and Marion Farber, Oxford, 2003, p. 96).

In 1958, at the age of 11, Serkin began studying at the Curtis Institute of Music where his teachers included the Polish pianist Mieczysław Horszowski, the American virtuoso Lee Luvisi, as well as Serkin's father. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia Pennsylvania that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma Bachelor of Music Mieczysław Horszowski ( June 23, 1892 - May 22, 1993) was a Polish pianist He graduated in 1965. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. He has also studied with Ernst Oster, flutist Marcel Moyse, and Karl Ulrich Schnabel. Marcel Moyse ( May 17 1889 - November 1 1984) was a famous French Flute player for whom many pieces were written (eg Karl Ulrich Schnabel ( 6 August 1909 Berlin - 27 August 2001 Danbury CT) was an Austrian Pianist, and the son

His concert career began in 1959, when he first performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, a seminal agent and incubator of chamber music performance in the U. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Marlboro Music School and Festival is a retreat for advanced classical training and musicianship held for seven weeks each summer in Marlboro Vermont. S. , established in 1951 by the elder Serkin, Hermann and Adolf Busch, along with Marcel, Blanche and Louis Moyse. Following that performance, Peter Serkin was invited to play with major orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy. The Cleveland Orchestra, located in Cleveland, Ohio is one of the major symphony Orchestras in the United States. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> George Szell (ˈsɛl ( June 7, 1897 &ndash July The Philadelphia Orchestra is an Orchestra based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, in the United States. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Eugene Ormandy ( November 18, 1899 &ndash March

In 1966, at the age of 19, Serkin was awarded the Grammy Award for Best New Classical Artist|Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist. The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Three of his recordings since then have won Grammy nominations (one of them featuring six Mozart concertos; the two others feature the music of Messiaen) and his recordings have won other awards. Olivier Messiaen ( December 10 1908 &ndash April 27 1992 was a French Composer, organist and ornithologist. 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. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to 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, his wife, Wendy and baby daughter Karina, 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. (The story is recounted in Conroy, Dogs Bark. - see below)

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. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (born June Daniel Barenboim (born November 15, 1942) is a pianist and conductor. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Herbert Blomstedt (born July 11 1927) is a Swedish WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Pierre Boulez (pjɛʁ buˈlɛz (b WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE, FRSA, (born January James Lawrence Levine (born 23 June 1943) is an American orchestral conductor and pianist. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Christoph Eschenbach (born February 20, 1940, He has made numerous recordings, on such labels as RCA Victor, 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 Dvořák as well as numerous more recent composers such as Messiaen, Takemitsu, Oliver Knussen, Webern, Peter Lieberson, Stefan Wolpe, Schoenberg and Max Reger. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section.2 This article is written in British English including maximised use of "-ise" The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 are a set of 30 variations for Harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist. Johannes Brahms ( pronounced ˈbʁaːms (May 7 1833 &ndash April 3 1897 was a German Composer Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( (often pronounced in English as; DVOR-zhahk; September 8 1841 – May 1 1904 was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed Olivier Messiaen ( December 10 1908 &ndash April 27 1992 was a French Composer, organist and ornithologist. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> was a Japanese Composer and writer on Aesthetics and Music theory Oliver Knussen CBE (born June 12, 1952 in Glasgow Scotland) is a British Composer and conductor. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Anton Webern (December 3 1883 &ndash September 15 1945 was an Austrian Composer Peter Lieberson (born 25 October, 1946 in New York City) is an American composer Stefan Wolpe ( August 25, 1902 &ndash April 4, 1972) was a German -born Composer. Schoenberg (beautiful mountain is the surname of several persons Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger ( March 19 1873 &ndash May 11 1916) was a German Composer, conductor

Serkin is a committed performer of new and recent music, having premiered or been the dedicatee of many new works by such composers as Toru Takemitsu, Peter Lieberson, Oliver Knussen, Elliot Carter and Charles Wuorinen. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> was a Japanese Composer and writer on Aesthetics and Music theory Peter Lieberson (born 25 October, 1946 in New York City) is an American composer Oliver Knussen CBE (born June 12, 1952 in Glasgow Scotland) is a British Composer and conductor. Elliott Cook Carter Jr (born in New York City on December 11, 1908) is an American Composer from New York City. Charles Wuorinen (b June 9, 1938 in New York City is an American Composer. 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. Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923) is an American Composer and diarist. 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. )

Among prominent virtuosi, Peter Serkin was one of the first to experiment with period fortepianos, and the first to record late Beethoven sonatas on pianos of both the modern as well as Beethoven's era.

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. This is an Anglicized version of the Chinese name "Ma Yo-yo" the family name is " Ma " Alexander Schneider ( October 21, 1908 – February 2, 1993) was a Violinist, conductor, and educator Pamela Frank (born June 20, 1967) is an American Violinist, equally well known as a soloist and as a proponent of Chamber music The Guarneri Quartet is an American String quartet originally founded in 1964 András Schiff (born December 21, 1953) is a Hungarian -born British classical Pianist. The Budapest Quartet was a String quartet in existence from 1917 to 1967 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. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. He has taught at Juilliard and the Curtis Institute of Music and currently is on faculty at the Bard College Conservatory of Music as well as other institutions. The Juilliard School, located in New York City, is a world renowned Performing arts conservatory. The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia Pennsylvania that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma Bachelor of Music The Bard College Conservatory of Music is a program of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson New York. Among those who have studied piano with him are Simone Dinnerstein, Heather O'Donnell, and Cecile Licad. Simone Dinnerstein is an American classical Pianist, born in New York City, USA Heather O'Donnell is an American classical Pianist, currently living in Berlin Germany. Cecile Licad (born May 11, 1961 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipina virtuoso classical Pianist.

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