Alan Feinberg
Alan Feinberg is a unique and versatile pianist, as comfortable with Brahms as with Cage. He has given over 200 premieres, including Mel Powell's Pulitzer Prize-winning work Duplicates, and numerous works by such composers as John Adams, Milton Babbitt, John Harbison, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen. In 1985, he gave the first performance of Milton Babbitt's Piano Concerto, a work that was written for Feinberg. In 1991, he gave a critically acclaimed appearance of Shulamit Ran's concert piece with the Cleveland Orchestra. He has also championed a piano concerto by Charles Ives based on fragments of his Emerson Overture, and reconstructed by Ives scholar David G. Porter. Feinberg premiered this work in 1998 in Cleveland under the baton of Christoph von Dohnányi and they later performed it on tour in Paris, Barcelona, and Madrid. Other unusual works in his repertoire include concertos by Amy Beach, John Cage, Leo Ornstein, Oscar Levant, and Andrew Imbrie; George Gershwin's Rhapsody No. 2; and Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques. Feinberg has performed throughout the United States and Canada. His innovative recital series Discover America was sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Eisenhower Hall Theater at West Point, New York City's Town Hall, the University of Rhode Island, and the State University of New York at Stonybrook. Feinberg also performs regularly in Europe. In addition to frequent collaborations with the London Philharmonia and the BBC Scottish Symphony, he has been featured at major international festivals, such as the BBC Musica Nova Festival, and the festivals of Edinburgh, Bath, Cambridge, Geneva, Berlin, Brescia, Bergamo, and Budapest.
An extensive discography attests to Feinberg's continuing investigations into previously unexplored repertoire for the piano. His most ambitious project is a series of recordings on Decca/Argo entitled Discover America, where classical and popular works by both famous and lesser-known composers are arranged in a program to demonstrate the diversity of American musical history. Composers featured in the series include Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Henry Cowell, Conlon Nancarrow, Jelly Roll Morton, James B. Johnson, Percy Grainger, Fats Waller, Artis Wodehouse, Scott Joplin, Charles Ives, Charles Wuorinen, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Duke Ellington, and others. He has also recorded Babbitt's Piano Concerto (New World Records); Morton Feldman's Piano and Orchestra (Decca/Argo); Beach's Piano Concerto (Decca/Argo); Ligeti's Horn Trio (Bridge Records); works by Steve Reich and John Adams (EMI/Angel and Nonesuch); and Paul Bowles' Piano Concerto (Catalyst). As of 2013, Feinberg's recordings had been nominated for five Grammy awards. He has taught at the Eastman School of Music and at alma mater, Juilliard.
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Discography
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Piano Concerto / Gaelic Symphony
Alan Feinberg, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn
Concertmuziek - Released by Naxos on 7 mei 2003
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Power to the Women: The Best of Female Classical Composers
Concertmuziek - Released by Naxos Special Projects on 4 mrt. 2014
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The American Innovator
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 12 okt. 1993
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The American Virtuoso
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 nov. 1992
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Feldman: Coptic Light
Alan Feinberg, Robert Cohen, Michael Tilson Thomas, The New World Symphony
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1995
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Fugue State
Klassiek - Released by Steinway and Sons on 10 jul. 2015
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Ives: When The Moon - Songs & Sets For Orchestra
Sanford Sylvan, Susan Narucki, Alan Feinberg, Richard Bernas, Music Projects
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 13 mrt. 2000
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Symphony No. 1 / Emerson Concerto
Alan Feinberg, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, James Sinclair
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 1 okt. 2003
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The American Romantic
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 okt. 1990
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Milton Babbitt: Sextets/The Joy of More Sextets
Klassiek - Released by New World Records on 1 jan. 1988
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Brahms & Ligeti: Trios for Violin, Horn & Piano
Richard Goode, Alan Feinberg, Daniel Phillips, William Purvis, Rolf Schulte
Kamermuziek - Released by Bridge Records on 1 jun. 1988
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Cadenzas & Variations - Violin Music
Robert Shannon, Alan Feinberg, Gregory Fulkerson
Klassiek - Released by New World Records on 1 jan. 1995
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Fascinatin' Rhythm
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 30 apr. 1995
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Morton Feldman: Palais De Mari (1986)
Klassiek - Released by Group for Contemporary Music on 19 jun. 2013
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Extraordinary Vistas - Words & Music of the MacDowell Colony
Susan Narucki, Alan Feinberg, Nathan Randall
Klassiek - Released by Americus Records, Inc. on 6 sep. 2003
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Gillis, D.: Symphony X / Shindig / Piano Concerto No. 1 / Symphony No. 5 1/2
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Alan Feinberg, David Alan Miller
Klassiek - Released by Albany on 1 sep. 2000
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