The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould Faculty (GGS) had introduced that pianist and educator Jonathan Biss will probably be becoming a member of its piano college this September. As a former pupil of Leon Fleischer, the Inaugural Ihnatowycz Chair in Piano on the Faculty, he’ll be carrying his legacy into the longer term.
On the GGS piano college, 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 an announcement, “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 college.”
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 trying ahead to working with the scholars on the Glenn Gould Faculty within the 2025–26 tutorial 12 months,” stated Biss in an announcement. “A lot of my colleagues will probably be musicians I’ve lengthy admired, and I really feel a connection to the varsity by way of my trainer Leon Fleisher, who spent so a few years because the Ihnatowycz Chair in Piano.
“I can’t overstate Leon’s significance in my musical life; I consider him almost every single day, 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 liked, and that owes a lot to his whole musical integrity.”
American pianist, trainer, and author Jonathan Biss relies 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 dad and mom, Miriam Fried and Paul Biss, are violinists.
Jonathan started finding out the piano on the age of six on the Jacobs Faculty 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, finding out with Leon Fleischer.
He grew to become 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 college 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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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 many years, and a inventive writing teacher for Ontariolearn.
