The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould Faculty (GGS) had introduced that pianist and educator Jonathan Biss will likely be becoming a member of its piano school this September. As a former scholar of Leon Fleischer, the Inaugural Ihnatowycz Chair in Piano on the Faculty, he’ll be carrying his legacy into the long run.
On the GGS piano school, Biss will be 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 Faculty feedback in a press release, “Jonathan Biss embodies The Glenn Gould Faculty’s custom of creative excellence and mental curiosity. His profound insights, formed by his mentorship underneath Leon Fleisher, alongside his collaborative spirit and pedagogical ardour, make him a unprecedented 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 Faculty within the 2025–26 educational yr,” stated Biss in a press release. “A lot of my colleagues will likely be musicians I’ve lengthy admired, and I really feel a connection to the college by my trainer 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 on daily basis, by no means extra so than after I educate. It will likely be very significant for me to spend a lot time at a spot that he beloved, and that owes a lot to his whole musical integrity.”
American pianist, trainer, and author Jonathan Biss is predicated in Philadelphia, and is co-artistic director of the Marlborough Music Competition.
His household contains classical music royalty. Samuel Barber wrote his cello concerto for Biss’s mom, Russian cellist Raya Garbousova. Each mother and father, Miriam Fried and Paul Biss, are violinists.
Jonathan started learning the piano on the age of six on the Jacobs Faculty of Music at Indiana College Bloomington the place each his mother and father 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 Era 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 identified for his specialty within the works of Beethoven, and Schubert, and likewise for championing new music.
Congratulations to Biss and the GGS on their new relationship.
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