SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Guest Artist Master Class
Anton Kuerti, piano
4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Hirsch Orchestra Rehearsal Hall

ANTON KUERTI was born in Austria, grew up in the U.S., and has lived in Canada for the last 35 years.  His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin.  At the age of 11 he performed the Grieg Concerto with Arthur Fiedler and, while still a student, he won the famous Leventritt Award. Mr. Kuerti is considered by many to be Canada’s leading concert pianist. Recent reviews have called him ‘one of the great pianists of the century’ (CD Review, London) and even ‘one of the greatest pianists of our time’ (FonoForum).

Anton Kuerti has toured 39 countries, including Japan, Russia, and most European countries, and has performed with most major U.S. orchestras and conductors, such as the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony (Menuhin), the Cleveland Orchestra (Szell), the Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy), and the orchestras of Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and San Francisco. His vast repertoire includes some 50 concertos, including one he composed himself.

In Canada Kuerti has appeared in 140 communities from coast to coast, and has played with every professional orchestra. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and the recipient of several honorary doctorates.

As a chamber musician, Kuerti has performed the major repertoire with such artists as Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, and the Cleveland, Colorado, Guarneri, St. Lawrence and Tokyo String Quartets.

Anton Kuerti is one of today’s most recorded artists, having put on disc all the Beethoven Concertos and Sonatas, the Schubert Sonatas, the Brahms Concertos and works by many other composers. His recordings are heard almost daily on CBC Radio.