He was a classical pianist born in the United States who studied in New York City with Carl Friedberg, had been a pupil of Clara Schumann, and took further studies at the Vienna Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst.
The Austrian Government sent him on a European tour after graduation which began his professional career, and since then he gave performanes in North America, Europe and Asia.
He recorded with the China Central Opera Orchestra of Beijing and the Hong Kong Philharmonic and was the first foreign artist to be invited by the Chinese Ministry of Culture to record and premiere Huang An-lun’s “Piano Concerto, Op. 25b”.
In the field of musical education he was a teacher who held masterclasses worldwide.
He died in July 2022 when he was 87 years old.
Moscow Symphony Orchestra recordings
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B minor, Opus 2, (Eugen d’Albert)
Naxos 8.553728 (CD: Albert: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2/Esther Overture)
Conductor – Dmitri Yablonsky
Piano – Joseph Banowetz
Piano Concerto No. 2 in E major, Op. 12 (Eugen d’Albert)
Naxos 8.553728 (CD: Albert: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2/Esther Overture)
Conductor – Dmitri Yablonsky
Piano – Joseph Banowetz
Here he performs “Four Improvisations for Piano” (1896) by Alexander Glazunov (et al)..
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