The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould College (GGS) had introduced that pianist and educator Jonathan Biss will probably be becoming a member of its piano school this September. As a former pupil of Leon Fleischer, the Inaugural Ihnatowycz Chair in Piano on the College, he’ll be carrying his legacy into the long run.
On the GGS piano school, Biss will be a part of colleagues Anton Nel, Jeremy Denk (Ihnatowycz Chair in Piano), John O’Conor, James Anagnoson, David Louie, Anya Alexeyev, Li Wang, and Michael Berkovsky.
James Anagnoson, Dean of The Glenn Gould College feedback in a press release, “Jonathan Biss embodies The Glenn Gould College’s custom of creative excellence and mental curiosity. His profound insights, formed by his mentorship below Leon Fleisher, alongside his collaborative spirit and pedagogical ardour, make him a rare addition to our school.”
Koerner Corridor audiences skilled Biss in efficiency with the Brentano String Quartet and bassist Joseph Conyers in Schubert’s Trout Quintet as a part of the 2023–24 live performance season.
Jonathan Biss, piano
“I’m very a lot wanting ahead to working with the scholars on the Glenn Gould College within the 2025–26 educational 12 months,” stated Biss in a press release. “A lot of my colleagues will probably be musicians I’ve lengthy admired, and I really feel a connection to the college via my instructor Leon Fleisher, who spent so a few years because the Ihnatowycz Chair in Piano.
“I can not overstate Leon’s significance in my musical life; I consider him practically day-after-day, by no means extra so than once I educate. It will likely be very significant for me to spend a lot time at a spot that he cherished, and that owes a lot to his complete musical integrity.”
American pianist, instructor, and author Jonathan Biss relies in Philadelphia, and is co-artistic director of the Marlborough Music Pageant.
His household contains classical music royalty. Samuel Barber wrote his cello concerto for Biss’s mom, Russian cellist Raya Garbousova. Each dad and mom, Miriam Fried and Paul Biss, are violinists.
Jonathan started learning the piano on the age of six on the Jacobs College of Music at Indiana College Bloomington the place each his dad and mom taught. He later entered the Curtis Institute of Music on the age of 17, learning with Leon Fleischer.
He turned the primary American to be chosen as a BBC New Technology Artist in 2002. It launched a profession that has seen him carry out with main orchestras all through the US and throughout Europe.
He was appointed to the piano school as Neubauer Household Chair at Curtis Institute in 2010. He has been a visitor lecturer on the New England Conservatory of Music since 2021.
He’s recognized for his specialty within the works of Beethoven, and Schubert, and in addition for championing new music.
Congratulations to Biss and the GGS on their new relationship.
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