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10 Facts About Jerome Lowenthal

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Jerome Lowenthal was born on February 11,1932 and is an American classical pianist.

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Jerome Lowenthal has served as chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York.

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Additionally, Lowenthal is on the faculty at Music Academy of the West in Montecito, California.

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Jerome Lowenthal made his debut as a solo pianist at the age of 13 with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Jerome Lowenthal has played sonatas with Itzhak Perlman, piano duos with Ronit Amir, and with Ursula Oppens, as well as quintets with the Lark Quartet, Avalon Quartet, and Shanghai Quartet.

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Jerome Lowenthal's studies included lessons with Eleanor Sokoloff and Olga Samaroff in Philadelphia, William Kapell and Eduard Steuermann at the Juilliard School in New York, and Alfred Cortot at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in Paris, France.

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Jerome Lowenthal is recognized as a specialist of Franz Liszt, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Bela Bartok, and more generally of virtuoso and late romantic music.

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Jerome Lowenthal's recordings include piano concertos by Liszt with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the complete Tchaikovsky concerto cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra.

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Jerome Lowenthal has an extensive repertoire, including 59 performed piano concerti.

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Jerome Lowenthal is the dedicatee of many new works, such as Ned Rorem's Piano Concerto in Six Movements, and has unearthed some rare romantic piano works, such as the Liszt Third Piano Concerto edited by his former student Jay Rosenblatt.