Peter Basquin
Peter Basquin is an American pianist and a winner of the . He attended both Carleton College and Manhattan School of Music where his teachers were Dora Zaslavsky and William Nelson. He is chairman of the American Composers Orchestra and is Professor Emeritus at the Hunter College.
He had solo appearances at the American and Boston Symphony Orchestras as well as Minnesota, the Westchester Philharmonic and the . His conductors during those times were Dennis Russell Davies, Paul Lustig Dunkel, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Gunther Schuller among others. He also collaborated with Lewis Kaplan, Jaime Laredo, Charles Neidich, Nathaniel Rosen, Jacques Thibaud, and and played in Cassatt Quartet.[1] In 1978 he recorded Marga Richter's 1954 Sonata which was published by the same year. (Richter's Sonata was first recorded in 1956 by Menahem Pressler for MGM recordings.) [2]
References[]
- ^ "Peter Basquin, Piano". Bowdoin International Music Festival. Archived from the original on December 12, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
- ^ Sharon Mirchandani (2012). Marga Richter. . p. 34. ISBN 978-0-252-07891-0.
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