Lorin Hollander was born on July 19,1944 and is an American classical concert pianist.
21 Facts About Lorin Hollander
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Lorin Hollander has performed with virtually all of the major symphony orchestras in the United States and many around the world.
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Lorin Hollander was born in New York City into a Jewish family.
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Lorin Hollander was a child prodigy and gave his first public performance at age five playing excerpts of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, and at age eleven, he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the National Orchestral Association.
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Lorin Hollander studied with Eduard Steuermann from age eight and took courses at what is the Juilliard Pre-College at age eleven.
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Lorin Hollander transferred from public school to Professional Children's School when he was thirteen, from which he graduated at sixteen.
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Lorin Hollander made a last-minute substitution for Van Cliburn as soloist with the San Antonio Symphony at age 14.
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Lorin Hollander began making appearances on national television, including The Perry Como Show, The Bell Telephone Hour, and the following year on The Ed Sullivan Show.
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Lorin Hollander began making critically acclaimed recordings for RCA in 1958.
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Lorin Hollander was the only soloist on the World Tour of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with conductor Max Rudolf in 1966 presented by the Department of State.
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Lorin Hollander has performed with the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Washington's National Symphony, and internationally with the London Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, ORTF and New Tokyo Philharmonic.
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In 1969, Lorin Hollander gave the first public classical recital using the Baldwin Electronic Concert Grand at the Fillmore East, a venue that usually hosted rock concerts, where he hoped to expose his young contemporaries to classical music.
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Lorin Hollander played pieces by Debussy, Bach, and Prokofiev, and himself.
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Lorin Hollander premiered Norman Dello Joio's Fantasy and Variations and the RCA recording with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Erich Leinsdorf conducting was nominated for a Grammy in 1964.
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Lorin Hollander is known for his advocacy of the arts in education; he has testified before the US Congress and many state legislatures and created some of the first models of community outreach and university residencies for the National Endowment of the Arts, American Symphony Orchestra League, and the National Association for Music Education.
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Lorin Hollander was an advisor to the US Office of the Gifted and Talented, the World Congress on the Gifted, and the Commission on Presidential Scholars.
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Lorin Hollander was a member of the Rockefeller Panel on the Arts, Education and Americans for the American Council for the Arts in Education and in 1977 a panel report "Coming to Our Senses" was published.
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Lorin Hollander has worked with organizations including the Social Science Research Council, the International Federation of Music Therapy, International Transpersonal Association, and the American Psychiatric Association.
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Lorin Hollander has received honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Maine, Buena Vista College and Ithaca College.
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Lorin Hollander is an honorary Fellow of the Joseph Campbell Foundation.
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Lorin Hollander is the father of three sons, Jesse, Joshua and Aaron.