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Jacob Lateiner (1928-2010), piano
Rec. live, 1964
Jacob Lateiner was born in Havana in 1928 to Jewish parents who had come from Poland. He made his debut at age 10 playing Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto with the Havana Philharmonic under the direction of Ernesto Lecuona. 2 years later he was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where his principal teacher was Isabelle Vengerova.
Lateiner made his American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 when he was 16. Two years later he performed Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto at Tanglewood with Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to great acclaim. He was a member of the cohort of young American pianists — or YAPs, as they were known to the classical-music trade — that included Eugene Istomin, Gary Graffman, Claude Frank and Leon Fleisher.
As a soloist, Lateiner appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, among them the New York and Berlin Philharmonics, the Boston and Chicago Symphonies and the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras. As a chamber musician, he performed frequently with the violinist Jascha Heifetz and the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.
Lateiner had taught at the Juilliard School from 1966 until his retirement in 2009. He was also a longtime faculty member of Mannes College the New School for Music.
Sources:
parnassusrecords.com/our-own-cds/the-lost-art-of-jacob-lateiner
nytimes.com/2010/12/14/arts/music/14lateiner.html?mcubz=3
Jacob Lateiner (1928-2010), piano
Rec. live, 1964
Jacob Lateiner was born in Havana in 1928 to Jewish parents who had come from Poland. He made his debut at age 10 playing Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto with the Havana Philharmonic under the direction of Ernesto Lecuona. 2 years later he was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where his principal teacher was Isabelle Vengerova.
Lateiner made his American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 when he was 16. Two years later he performed Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto at Tanglewood with Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to great acclaim. He was a member of the cohort of young American pianists — or YAPs, as they were known to the classical-music trade — that included Eugene Istomin, Gary Graffman, Claude Frank and Leon Fleisher.
As a soloist, Lateiner appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, among them the New York and Berlin Philharmonics, the Boston and Chicago Symphonies and the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras. As a chamber musician, he performed frequently with the violinist Jascha Heifetz and the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.
Lateiner had taught at the Juilliard School from 1966 until his retirement in 2009. He was also a longtime faculty member of Mannes College the New School for Music.
Sources:
parnassusrecords.com/our-own-cds/the-lost-art-of-jacob-lateiner
nytimes.com/2010/12/14/arts/music/14lateiner.html?mcubz=3
