Adele Marcus
Adele Marcus (February 22, 1906 – May 3, 1995) was an American pianist and instructor.
She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the youngest of 13 children of a rabbi of Russian descent. She studied under Josef Lhévinne and Artur Schnabel.
She was on faculty at the Juilliard School in New York City and provided master classes in piano performance at other conservatories including the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago during the 1970s in collaboration with William Browning, also a teacher of great repute. Of her playing in general, Jerome D. Bohm of the N.Y. Herald-Tribune wrote; "An innate musicality permeates all her interpretations and bears the stamp of her individuality."
Adele's performances included a Carnegie Hall recital on January 25, 1949, in which she played Scarlatti, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky and Chopin.
Her students included: Edward Aldwell, Agustin Anievas, Tzimon Barto, Enrique Bátiz, David Brunell, Anthony Byrne, Sergio Calligaris, José Carlos Cocarelli, Cy Coleman, Stewart L. Gordon, Steven Graff, Horacio Gutiérrez, Stephen Hough, Byron Janis, Soonja Kim, Daniel Lessner, Panayis Lyras, Diana McIntosh, Beata Moon, Pascal Nemirovski, Ken Noda, Jon Kimura Parker, Santiago Rodriguez, Neil Sedaka, Jeffrey Swann, Emma Tahmizian, and Ezequiel Viñao.
Adele Marcus died on May 3, 1995 at her home in Manhattan, aged 89.
References
- Elder, Dean. "Adele Marcus: World-Class Teacher", Clavier, Vol. 22, No. 5, May–June, 1983.
- Kehler, George. The Piano in Concert, Scarecrow Press, 1982.
- Press, Jaques Cattell (Ed.). Who's who in American Music. Classical, First edition. R. R. Bowker, New York 1983.
- Sadie, Stanley; Hitchcock, H. Wiley (Ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986.
Sources
- Holland, Bernard. Adele Marcus Is Dead at 89; Taught Many Notable Pianists, New York Times, 5 May 1995. (retrieved January 25, 2010)