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Selected Current Engagements:
Mozart Concerto in F, K. 459
Mid-Summer Mozart Festival, San Francisco
July 23-26, 2009
Mozart Piano Concerto in A major, K. 488 and Beethoven Choral Fantasy with the
Long Island Philharmonic
November 14, 2009
Recital at Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Williams College
November 30, 2009
"Lipkin is a great pianist, and he gave a performance that crackled with wit and
wisdom" [Merkin Hall, New York]
bridgerecords.com simple machines forum (June 2009)
"...some of the most beautiful piano music ever written performed by an ideal
pianist for them ... wonderful" [Schubert CDs]
Buffalo News (April 2009)
"...he reaches lofty heights of inspiration
and execution"
American Record Guide
"...Technically his pianism far outshines Schnabel, while he is more consistent
than Backhaus, more exciting than Arrau, plays with more tonal beauty than
Brendel..."
American Record Guide
"Mr. Lipkin is for me one of the great advocates of this greatest of all
literature."
[David Dubal] WQXR, New York
"This set is a treasure."
www.cliffsclassics.net
"He plays with an absolute mastery of the sonatas."
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Sonata #10 in G
Beethoven Sonata #9 in E
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Seymour Lipkin,
piano
A student of Rudolf Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski at the Curtis Institute of
Music, Mr. Lipkin won the prestigious Rachmaninoff competition at age 20. He
went on to appear with all of America's "top five" orchestras: The New York
Philharmonic (several times), the Boston Symphony (repeatedly), the
Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago, as well as many other major American
ensembles. Conductors with whom he has collaborated include Serge Koussevitzky,
Fritz Reiner, Charles Munch, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, William
Steinberg, George Szell, and Christoph von Dohnanyi, and more recently with
Kenneth Schermerhorn, Gerard Schwarz and George Cleve.
Extremely active in chamber music, he has since 1988 been artistic director of
the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival; he has performed with Jascha Heifetz
(60 concert tour), Oscar Shumsky, Uto Ughi, Arnold Steinhardt, Aaron Rosand,
William Primrose, David Soyer and Lawrence Lesser, and toured the U.S., Europe
and South America with the Guarneri Quartet. He performed a ten city European
tour with the Juilliard String Quartet in 1999 and appeared again with them at
the Library of Congress in 2001. He has recorded sonatas with Shumsky, Rosand
and Steinhardt (complete duos of Schubert).
For many years, Mr. Lipkin concentrated on conducting (he studied with Serge
Koussevitzky and George Szell). After serving as the New York Philharmonic's
assistant conductor, he was Music Director of the Long Island Symphony from 1963
to 1979, and of the Joffrey Ballet company from 1966 to 1979.
Returning to extensive concertizing as a pianist, he has earned particular
acclaim for his Beethoven cycles, which have encompassed not only the 32 piano
sonatas and the five concertos, but the ten violin sonatas and the five cello
sonatas as well. He has recently performed cycles of all of the major works of
Schubert, including the complete sonatas.
Lipkin's recording of the Stravinsky piano concerto with Leonard Bernstein and
the New York Philharmonic may be heard on the SONY label. In that orchestra's
Special Editions he appears twice, once as soloist and once as conductor.
His recordings of the complete 32 sonatas of Beethoven are available on Newport
Classic; all 32 sonatas may also be heard on a single MP3 disc, the first time
this has been accomplished. This set has been chosen as one of the ten best of
2004 by the Boston Globe. Recordings of all the major works of Schubert,
including the complete sonatas, have just been released by Newport Classic.
Mr. Lipkin is on the faculties of both the Curtis Institute of Music and The
Juilliard School. He was formerly director of the University of Maryland's
International Piano Festival and William Kapell Piano Competition.
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