Calendar - Spring 2003
Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri Biography
The Italian virtuoso Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri was born in Argentina, where he was instructed by Magda Tagliaferro and Claudio Arrau. In addition to his performing and recording career, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri is also a famed international piano pedagogue. He is a professor of piano at the Ecole Normale “Alfred Cortot” in Paris, and has also been appointed professor extraordinaire at the Chapelle Musicale “Reine Elisabeth” in Belgium. He gives frequent masterclasses in France, USA, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Greece. Cultural and pedagogical broadening is an important goal of his duties as general director of the Bell’Arte Foundation. Mr. Delle-Vigne Fabbri is also the artistic director of MUSIC-a Braine l’Alleud, the Paris International Summer Sessions and of the EMS Music Group.
Jerome Lowenthal
Mr. Lowenthal has appeared with virtually every major orchestra
in the U.S. His voluminous repertoire includes nearly sixty performed
concerti, including works written expressly for him. Mr. Lowenthal's
recordings include a CD of pieces by Liszt with the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra; solo works by great composers who played
the Steinway piano, performed on ten different Steinway pianos;
and the complete works of Tchaikovsky for piano and orchestra
with the London Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Lowenthal is former chair
of the piano department at The Julliard School where he has taught
since 1991. In 1997, he joined the jury of the Van Cliburn Piano
Competition.
