1. Jack Gibbons was born on 2 March 1962 and is an English-born American classical composer and virtuoso pianist.
17 Facts About Jack Gibbons
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Jack Gibbons's father was a scientist and his mother a visual artist.
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Jack Gibbons began his piano studies in Stockton-on-Tees, later continuing in Oxford.
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Jack Gibbons began performing in public at the age of 10.
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Jack Gibbons made his London debut in 1979, at the age of 17, with an all-Alkan concert that included Alkan's Concerto for Solo Piano and Ouverture from Op.
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Since then Jack Gibbons has played in many prestigious venues and festivals all over the world, as recitalist and concerto soloist.
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For 16 years, from 1990 to 2005, Jack Gibbons gave annual all-Gershwin concerts at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, with a gap in 2001 following a near-fatal car accident.
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Jack Gibbons has since 1994 given similar all-Gershwin concerts at New York's Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall.
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In 1992 Jack Gibbons made his recording debut on the Hyperion label.
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Between 1992 and 1997 Jack Gibbons recorded a 4-CD set of recordings entitled "The Authentic George Gershwin", which won an MRA.
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In January 1995, in Oxford, Jack Gibbons became the first pianist ever to perform all 12 of Alkan's Douze Etudes dans les Tons Mineurs, Op.
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In 1997 Jack Gibbons wrote and presented a feature programme for the BBC on George Gershwin in preparation for the centenary of the composer's birth, with actor Sir Ben Kingsley providing the voice of George Gershwin.
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In March 2001, Jack Gibbons was involved in a life-threatening car accident.
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In March 2007 Jack Gibbons gave the first performance at Carnegie Hall of Alkan's Concerto for Solo Piano, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the work's publication in Paris in 1857.
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Jack Gibbons continues to perform in Oxford, where he has been presenting and playing an annual summer piano festival every year without a break since 1988.
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Jack Gibbons was appointed artist-in-residence at Davis and Elkins College, in the US state of West Virginia, in June 2010.
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Jack Gibbons became a naturalized American citizen on 29 November 2023.