They are operatic scenes, incorporating a breathtaking span of emotions that unfold under the guide of a masterful dramatist who perhaps is equalled only by Shakespeare. What, for you, makes Mozart’s piano concerti special/significant in the canon of classical music? Let the listeners decide! I have particular commitment to Viennese classical repertory, French music, and contemporary music, though the works I perform span the Elizabethan masters to the present. Which particular works do you think you perform best? Nadia Boulanger and Sir Clifford Curzon when I was young Felix Galimir and Rudolf Kolisch later on. Who or what were the most important influences on your musical life and career? It is impossible for me to express adequately my debt to him. He discovered that I had absolute pitch and arranged my musical education forthwith, chaperoning me to Fontainebleau to study with the legendary Nadia Boulanger. My musical guardian angel was my maternal uncle, Benjamin Spieler, who studied clarinet at Juilliard with Prokofiev’s friend and colleague Simeon Bellison (principal clarinettist in the NY Phil) and pursued studies in flute, oboe, and clarinet and saxophone at the Paris Conservatory and bassoon at Columbia in New York. My parents were great music lovers and the gramophone and radio were central to my early exposure to music. Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music?
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