Carla brenner daniel pollack biography

American pianist

Daniel Pollack is an American pianist.

Biography

Early life and education

Daniel Pollack was born in 1935 and raised in Los Angeles, California.

As a child prodigy, Pollack began his studies at the age of four and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of nine, performing the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1.

Carla brenner daniel pollack biography

He is a graduate of the Juilliard School from the class of the legendary Rosina Lhévinne. He also studied with Ethel Leginska and Lillian Steuber in Los Angeles. Pollack continued his graduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna under a Fulbright scholarship with Bruno Seidlhofer, at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy with Guido Agosti, and was selected as one of 12 pianists internationally to participate in a special Beethoven Master Class with the late Wilhelm Kempff in Positano, Italy.

While in Italy, he also attended masterclasses with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.

Career

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