Joseph Banowetz

This accomplished and renowned pianist received a lot of his early trained in NEW YORK with Carl Friedberg, who himself was a pupil from the legendary composer/pianist Clara Wieck Schumann. He continuing his research in Europe on the Vienna Hochschule. Upon his graduation from that organization, he won initial prize for the piano functionality. The Austrian federal government then sponsored a protracted Western european tour for the youthful artist, thereby introducing his career. Since that time, he provides performed across the world on five continents and performed and documented with such significant ensembles as the Slovak Condition Radio Orchestra, the Budapest Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Beijing’s China Opera Central Orchestra. Banowetz’s repertoire is made especially throughout the Intimate with composers such as for example Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt; later Intimate with composers such as for example Anton Rubenstein, Balakirev, and Busoni; and neo-Romantic eras (Ronald Stevenson, Godowsky). His recordings are located over the Naxos, Marco Polo, and Altarus brands. Banowetz can be known for his pedagogy and editing and enhancing work, and his publication, The Pianist’s Instruction to Pedaling, is regarded as fundamental to the analysis from the piano. He’s a professor on the School of North Tx, but also frequently teaches expert classes at such universities as Juilliard, the St. Petersburg Conservatory, with conservatories in London and China, and is generally called on like a juror for worldwide competitions.