Peter Serkin
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Peter Serkin (born July 24, 1947) is an American pianist.
He was born in New York City and is the son of pianist Rudolf Serkin and grandson of violinist Adolf Busch. His mother, Irene Busch, was also a violinist in the Busch Quartet.
Serkin entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 1958 at the age of eleven, where he studied with Mieczysław Horszowski, Lee Luvisi, and his father. In addition, he has also studied with Ernst Oster, Marcel Moyse, and Karl Ulrich Schnabel. His career as a musician began in 1959, when Serkin first performed in New York City at the Marlboro Music Festival; following that performance, he was also invited to play at other locations and with major orchestras, such as with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy as the conductor.
Since then, Serkin has continued performances around the world, and has played the debut of several piano concertos by Charles Wuorinen. The first pianist recipient of the Premio Internazionale Musicale Chigiana award, he has also made several recordings, and received an honorary doctorate from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2001.
Serkin has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Alexander Schneider, Pamela Frank, the Guarneri, Budapest and Orion string quartets and other prominent musicians and ensembles. In addition, he is one of the founding members of TASHI and has recorded for a variety of labels. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife Regina and their five children.
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- Artist biography, program of concert given September 30, 2006 by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
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