Byron Janis byron (Yankelevitch) janis (born March 24, 1928) is a pianist, who is considered . Vladimir Horowitz attended young janiss performance of a Rachmaninoff http://www.yotor.com/wiki/en/by/Byron Janis.htm
Extractions: Yotor Facts Yotor faits Yotor Tatsachen Yotor hechos ... Yotor ru Byron (Yankelevitch) Janis (born March 24, 1928) is a pianist, who is considered by some to be one of the twentieth century's greatest musicians (Classical CD). He occupies four CDs of the Philips Greatest Pianists of the Century series, and is one of thirteen great pianists featured in a Naxos Historical recording. His large and diverse discography from Bach to Guion includes arguably the most definitive renditions of all major romantic piano concertos (as well as those of Mozart and Prokofiev), all the most difficult works in the repertoire, and exceptionally sublime Chopin recordings. His pianism is described to combine a Horowitzian technique hardly excelled by Horowitz himself with a sublime musicality akin to Alfred Cortots. He has a strong special affinity for Chopin and made a French film on Frederic Chopin that was shown around the world. Born to Russian-Polish parents, he studied as a child with the Lhevinnes at Juilliard School. He had lost sensation in a finger in an accident but this did not prevent his debut under Toscanini at the age of fifteen. Vladimir Horowitz attended young Janiss performance of a Rachmaninoff Concerto and invited Janis to work with him, which he did intensively for four years. He remained his close friend and the only student ever acknowledged by Horowitz. He is married to painter Maria Cooper Janis, daughter of Gary Cooper, and they reside in New York City.
James Giles: Biography A native of North Carolina, Dr. Giles studied with byron janis at the ManhattanSchool of The Suite RB by British pianist Stephen Hough (b.1961) was, http://www.jamesgiles.net/bio.htm
Extractions: Printable View http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html James Giles has earned a reputation as one of the most versatile pianists of his generation, acclaimed for the dynamic brilliance and communicative power of his playing. This season, in addition to recitals in Seattle, Chicago, Tucson, Birmingham, and Champaign-Urbana, he embarks on his first tour of China, performs and teaches at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, and releases recordings of Schubert and new American music. He also collaborates with members of the Chicago Symphony, with the Rembrandt Chamber Players and in duo-recital with pianist Ursula Oppens. In an eclectic repertoire encompassing the solo and chamber music literatures, Giles is equally at home in the standard repertoire as in the music of our time. He has commissioned and premiered works by William Bolcom, C. Curtis-Smith, Stephen Hough Lowell Liebermann , Ned Rorem, Augusta Read Thomas Earl Wild , and James Wintle.
MusicMoz - Instruments: Keyboard: Piano: Bands And Artists: J janis, byron Internationally renowned concert pianist; includes biography,recordings, reviews, performances. Janssen, Shannon - Official site of new http://musicmoz.org/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Bands_and_Artists/J/
Mercury SACDS - Fennell - Osipov - Janis - Dorati MENDELSSOHN Song without words, Op. 62 No. 1. PINTO Three Scenes from Childhood.byron janis, pianist/Moscow Philharmonic Orch/Kiril Kondrashin, cond. http://classicalcdreview.com/mer3.html
Extractions: "SCREAMERS" - Circus marches by Thomas S. Allen, Orion R. Farrar, Henry Fillmore, Julius Fucik, John C. Heed, Will Huff, Getty H. Huffine, Fred Jewell, Karl L. King, John H. Ribble and Charles E. Duble. Military marches by Edwin Franko Goldman, Kenneth J. Alford, Henry Fillmore, Robert Browne Hall, David Wallace Reeves, Roland Forrest Seitz and Richard Rodgers. MERCURY SACD 475 6619 (M) (ADD) TT: 65:50 "BALALAIKA FAVORITES" - Fantasy on Two Folk Songs (Budashkin), At Sunrise (arr. Gorodovskaya), The Linden Tree (Kulikov), Kamarinskaya (Osipov), Fantasy on Volga Melodies (Mikhailov-Shalayev), In the Moonlight (Andreyev), Midnight in Moscow (Soloviev-Sedoy), Under the Apple Tree (Andreyev), Dance of the Comedians (Tchaikovsky), The Living Room (Shishakov), Evening Bells (arr. Mossolov), My Dear Old Friend Please Visit Me (Poponov), Waltz of the Faun (Andreyev)
UpcomingAreaConcerts Giles studied with byron janis at the Manhattan School of Music, Jerome Lowenthal February 13, 2005 300 pm, Alys Stephens Center, pianist Andre Watts http://mclellandpiano.homestead.com/UpcomingAreaConcerts.html
Extractions: "Since winning all the major prizes of the renowned Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 1996, Itin’s consummate pianism has delighted audiences on four continents. He was born in Ekaterinburg, Russia and studied from the age of 5 with Natalia Litvinova at the Sverdlovsk Music School for gifted children. He graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where his teacher was Lev Naumov. In recent seasons his recital and concerto repertoire, ranging from Bach to Messiaen, has been applauded throughout Europe, the Americas and in Asia. He has performed with such outstanding orchestras as the London Philharmonic, Prague Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Tokyo Philharmonic. Last year he made his conducting debut in Costa Rica with the Chamber Orchestra of Uppsala, as well as his debut at Theatre des Champs Elysee Paris."
Annuaire Pianistes Renommés Et Pianiste Jeunes Talents Translate this page byron janis WEBSITE - Site officiel du pianiste janis byron Christian Zacharias -pianist and Conductor - Christian Zacharias - pianist and Conductor http://www.pianobleu.com/annuaire_pianistes.html
Extractions: piano bleu Piano bleu - Visitez les pages sur les pianistes concertistes Abdel Rahman El Bacha : page ua piano bleu sur le pianiste Abdel Rahman el Bacha (interview, liens...) Abdel Rahman El Bacha : Site officiel du pianiste Abdel Rahman El Bacha Alain Lefèvre - Gagnant dun trophée Félix décerné par lADISQ dans la catégorie Meilleur Album Classique de lAnnée (2001) pour sa splendide interprétation du Concerto de Mozart No.23, Alain Lefèvre est pianiste soliste invité du Royal Philharmonic Orchestra de Londres, de la SWR
Extractions: These celebrated performances of the 2nd and 3rd piano concertos of Sergei Rachmaninov were among several outstanding recordings from the American pianist Byron Janis (born 1928), made for the American audiophile classical label, Mercury Living Presence. Accompanying the Pennsylvanian-born virtuoso was one of MLP's principal conductors, Hungarian-born Antal Dorati (1906-88), directing the London Symphony Orchestra in No. 3, recorded in Watford Town Hall in 1961, and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in No. 2 , recorded in the Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, in April 1960. The disc is completed by two short Rachmaninov solo piano works, including the ever-popular C sharp minor Prelude. The performances rapidly attained classic status.
The Sergei Rachmaninov Biography Page On Classic Cat Rachmaninoff did not consider himself a great pianist, and thought his own close friend of Rachmaninoff, and byron janis, student of Horowitz; http://www.classiccat.net/rachmaninov_s/biography.htm
Extractions: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff , also Sergey Rachmaninov or Serge Rakhmaninov Born in Semyonovo, near Novgorod into a wealthy family with a strong military background, Rachmaninoff had his first piano lessons with his mother at the family estate at Oneg. After a decline in their fortunes, the family moved to Saint Petersburg where Rachmaninoff studied at the conservatory, before going on to Moscow, where he studied piano with Nikolay Zverev and Alexander Siloti (a student of Franz Liszt and Rachmaninoff's cousin). He also studied harmony with Anton Arensky and counterpoint with Sergei Taneyev. While still a student he wrote a one act opera Aleko , and a set of piano pieces, Op. 3, which contains the popular and famous Prelude in C sharp minor, a piece he came to detest through 40 years of audiences demanding it as an encore at his piano recitals. Already in his early years he showed great composing skills. His first serious pieces for the piano were composed and performed when he was thirteen years old during his stay as student at Zverev's. In 1892, at an age of 19, he completed his first piano concerto. The Concerto was later revised in 1917.
Extractions: The Beethoven piano sonatas are, in a way, a Scylla and Charybdis for soloists. On the one hand there is the scored music, and on the other the recordings of every musician since the phonograph was invented as well as the tradition of those who came before. I know of only two pianists who have survived the Appassionata and made of it a coherent work: Rudolf Serkin and Paul Badura-Skoda. Many otherwise great pianists have run their ships aground on the "unplayable" last sonatas because they have gone to sea on a modern concert grand. These sonatas are very playable on the piano for which Beethoven wrote them but this is a secret only Paul Badura-Skoda seems to have discovered. Then there is Alfred Brendel. He has been a kind of utility outfielder of the Beethoven sonatas. If you cannot find a recording of this or that sonata by your favorite pianist, there is one by Alfred Brendel. I turned to his Piano Sonatas Opus 10 (Philips 446 664-2) hoping to find a pianist moyen sensuel for sonatas much touted as being the precursors of the powerful Beethoven style which produced the Fifth Symphony and later works. Brendel plays a modern concert grand, which gives too much brilliance but then so do most other pianists. Brendel seems to feel that he must give us something new in the Adagio of the first of this sonata cluster. He plays a few measures and then there is silence, during which you fuss with your stereo controls. But he comes on again for a few measures and, once more, silence. Nevertheless, his performance is generally satisfying and perceptive.
Extractions: Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 by the composer himself, Sergei Rachmaninov (Naxos Historical) Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 with Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca) Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 with Idil Biret (Naxos) Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 featuring Earl Wild (Chandos) with Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa (BIS) The Ampico Rolls 1919-29 An Inktroduction with Recordings Recommendations The "Elegiac" Piano Trios with the Borodin Trio (Chandos) Music for Two Pianos : Suite No.2 op.17, Russian Rhapsody , and Symphonic Dances . With pianists Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko. Also features music by Medtner Orchestral Works:
Eastern Music Festival & School Studied with byron janis and Lazar Berman; Jerome Lowenthal (Juilliard), Recognized as an artist of passion and integrity, American pianist PETER SERKIN http://www.easternmusicfestival.com/pianofaculty.htm
Prokofiev.org - Piano Concerto No 3 In C Major Op.26 Artist(s) byron janis (piano) Conductor Kiril Kondrashin Sergei Prokofiev pianist Composer(s) Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Miaskovsky, http://www.prokofiev.org/catalog/work.cfm?WorkID=83
Borislav Strulev - Verve Records In November 1999 Mr. Strulev made his sensational Carnegie Hall debut with thelegendary pianist byron janis playing Chopin Sonata. http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist.aspx?ob=rnd&src=rslt&aid=5749
Piano Practice Page Vladimir Horowitz , Eugene Istomin , byron janis , Grant Johannesen , Gunnar Harold Taylor, The pianist s Talent A New Approach To Piano Playing http://publish.uwo.ca/~elosseva/PianoPractice.htm
Extractions: "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten Ah, the joy of practicing... Welcome to my piano practice page. Give it a glance and I hope you'll find something of interest. Send me an email if you'd like to chat. I am always looking for people to play chamber music with. Contents of this page: Piano Practice Online Resources: (few but useful) http://www.mwsc.edu/~bhugh/practicetips/index.html provides collection of practice tips and advice by Prof. Brent Hugh http://www.siue.edu/MUSIC/html/ruths.html is an article by a great pianist Ruth Slenczynska on memory work (click here if the link doesn't work) http://www.alexandertechnique.com includes a list of online resources for Alexander technique (though I am highly skeptical of it myself) http://www.engr.unl.edu/ee/eeshop/music.html
Wei Yi Yang A pianist from Taiwan, WeiYi Yang has concertized on four continents as a Vera Gornostaeva, Jerome Lowenthal, byron janis, and the late Hans Graf. http://www.renegadeclassicproductions.com/WeiYiYangWebpage.htm
Extractions: Recording Musical Performances of the Finest Artists in Central New York: Renegade Classics Wei-Yi Yang, pianist A pianist from Taiwan, Wei-Yi Yang has concertized on four continents as a soloist with orchestras and in recitals. Winner of the Gold medal in the Fifth San Antonio International Piano Competition in Texas, Mr. Yang's performances have been featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney Australia, Minnesota Public Radio, WCNY-New York, WFMT-Illinois as part of the "Live From Studio One" concert series, and KLRN public television in Texas. He has also garnered top prizes and awards in the Manhattan Concerto Competition, New York s FiveTown Arts Foundation Competition, the San Jose International Piano Competition, and the Long Island Young Artist Competition. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Russian pianist Arkady Aronov, Mr. Yang also worked with renowned artists such as Murray Perahia, Vera Gornostaeva, Jerome Lowenthal, Byron Janis, and the late Hans Graf. Under the guidance of Boris Berman, as well as tutelage from Claude Frank and Peter Frankl, Mr. Yang was awarded a doctorate in musical arts by Yale University in 2004. Soyulla Ensemble , Mr. Yang performs regularly with the ensemble on Twin Cities chamber music series in
Extractions: When Falla started working on this composition he gave it the title "Nocturnes" which still indicates the atmosphere of the three sections. Most pianists and conductors play the work in a well structured manner and even sometimes with a certain straightforwardness. Curzon and Jorda however work together in a fine tuned atmospheric recording. Jorda is a conductor from the old school and he takes time for phrasing and subtle dynamic variations and so achieves a sense of sultry and mysteriousness, the air bearing heavy scents. It is a rendition which was hardly experienced before (and after, I must say). This performance shows once more all too clear how crucial the cooperation is of all the musicians involved. A true treasure that was well recorded with the piano well embedded in the orchestra. The liner notes of Westminster WL 5075 deal extensively with the structure and the nature of Beethoven's Op. 111 and Op. 2 No. 2. There are however no data about the pianist Kurt Appelbaum with whom Westminster started a complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas. From six discs produced only the one containing Sonatas Nos. 9 and 24 was well received (WL 5090). Westminster apparently abandoned the project and substituted Appelbaum for Paul Badura-Skoda but Demotte says that the wisdom of this choice was to be questioned because Badura-Skoda was much too young.
Mercury Living Presence Recordings On The Fontana Label 838 series and a few recordings like byron janis with the Liszt Concertos, Kreisler s compositions accompanied by pianist Charles Reiner on 838 426 http://www.xs4all.nl/~rabruil/fontana.html
Extractions: In 1961 Philips Phonographische Industrie in Baarn, The Netherlands bought the Chicago based record company Mercury. In Europe EMI had a contract with Mercury for distribution and also for the co-operation regarding new recordings. Philips had to respect the EMI contract and were naturally obstructed by it until it expired at the end of 1963. There were at the time some problems concerning the sales of Mercury Living Presence releases in other European countries because Philips wanted to start distributing their newly acquired label. Therefore Philips could only fully benefit from its purchase from 1963 on. What happened to the catalogue of the well known company for which Bob Fine, Wilma Cozart Fine and Robert Eberenz made the Living Presence recordings which were mastered by George Piros?
Artists' Profiles As a pianist and harpsichordist he has given recitals and lecturerecitals Ralph Votapek, Gyorgy Sebok, byron janis, Janos Starker and Josef Gingold. http://www.utahchambermusic.com/7-11_profiles.html
Extractions: Violin David Porter is a violinist with the Utah Symphony as well as president of the Intermezzo Chamber Music Series. David has enjoyed many opportunities to perform as soloist and in chamber music both in the United States and abroad, often in duo with his wife, pianist Vedrana Subotic. A native of Northfield, Minnesota, David attended Indiana University, where he studied under Miriam Fried and Sylvia Rosenberg. David Porter received his B.A. from Swarthmore College (1958) and his Ph.D. (classics) from Princeton University (1962). In addition to his piano study with Edward Steuermann (1955-62), he studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam in 1970 and 1977. In 1998 Skidmore awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. Piano Vedrana Subotic graduated from Belgrade University with a Bachelor of Music degree at age nineteen and has since earned a Master of Music from Michigan State University and an Artist Diploma from Indiana University where she is a DMA candidate. Her teachers have included Menahem Pressler, Peter Frankl, Ralph Votapek, Gyorgy Sebok, Byron Janis, Janos Starker and Josef Gingold. Ms. Subotic has taught piano at Indiana University, Hartford Conservatory and the Chautauqua Institution in New York where she was also head of the instrumental accompanying program from 1995-2001. She is currently an adjunct professor of piano at the University of Utah and is a director of the newly established piano program at the Horne School of Music at Snow College.
Mississippi Piano Showcase Ms. Hayghe won every award possible for a Juilliard pianist to receive,including the including Agustin Anievas, Jon Kimura Parker and byron janis. http://www.squeeek.com/msu/mps/2005/clinicians.asp
Extractions: One of the most promising American pianists of her generation, Jennifer Hayghe has performed to spirited critical acclaim throughout the world, including the United States, Europe and Asia. Ms. Hayghe first emerged as a child prodigy in her hometown, Washington, DC, where she performed at virtually every major concert hall, including The Barns at Wolf Trap, the Filene Center at Wolf Trap and the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She was also featured on public television's nationally syndicated series Musical Encounters, hosted by Leon Fleisher. Her teachers included renowned pedagogues Nelita True and Suzanne W. Guy. In addition to her debut, Ms. Hayghe's notable performances include those with the Mostly Mozart Festival in both New York's Avery Fisher Hall and the Tokyo Bunkamura. She was also a soloist at Carnegie Hall at the Adele Marcus Foundation Inaugural Concert featuring performances by renowned former students of Miss Marcus, including Agustin Anievas, Jon Kimura Parker and Byron Janis. An accomplished chamber musician, Ms. Hayghe has collaborated with members of the New York Philharmonic and numerous other instrumentalists. She has performed in major chamber music series, including the Museum of Modern Art's "Summergarden" series and Bargemusic in New York. Ms. Hayghe has also performed as a chamber musician in the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center and has taught chamber music throughout the United States and Central America.
