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\"Anton<\/a>
\n\u201cThe Vienna-born pianist, now something of a national treasure in Canada, has an impeccable lineage, having studied with Rudolf Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. His playing is strikingly individual, yet honors the spirit of Horszowski\u2019s teacher, the legendary Theodor Leschetizky: a focus on line and touch, a clear and flexible rhythm, a deeply analytical and exploratory approach. The latter quality was immediately apparent on Tuesday; not a note had been taken for granted, with even the most prosaic passages refracted through a powerful intellectual prism.\u201d<\/em> \u00a0\u2013 The Boston Globe, March 2008<\/h5>\n

Anton Kuerti\u2019s parents were scientists, academics and amateur musicians; his father was acquainted with Albert Einstein.<\/a>\u00a0 He grew up in the United States and moved to Canada in 1965. In the U.S., he studied with its most notable teachers: Erwin Bodky, Ern\u00f6 Balogh, Henry Cowell, Marcel Dick, Edward Goldman, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Arthur Loesser, Beryl Rubinstein, Rudolf Serkin, and Gregory Tucker.<\/p>\n

H\"Anton<\/a>is first appearance as a soloist was at age 11 performing Mozart\u2019s Piano Concerto K. 488.\u00a0 The following year, he performed Grieg\u2019s Piano Concerto with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. In 1957 he won the Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Prize, the National Music League Award and the prestigious Leventritt Award \u2013 which included concert engagements with the orchestras of New York, Cleveland, Detroit and Pittsburgh. \u00a0He was still a student at the time.\u00a0 The New York Times<\/em> praised him for the \u201c<\/em>strength and accuracy of his technique\u201d\u00a0and the Herald Tribune<\/em> glowingly reported that \u201cthe moment Anton Kuerti touches the keyboard, he unerringly unlocks the esprit of the music he performs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>As a young piano student, Anton was strongly influenced by Arthur Loesser, whom he recalls as \u201c<\/em>my best teacher ever. Through him I learned a more joyful and exhilarating appreciation of a large range of music. The joy he experienced while playing was palpable, and he communicated this enthusiasm very effectively to his students.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Anton followed this path to share the higher art without excessive concern for its commercial aspects.\u00a0He lived his beliefs that classical music should be accessible. \u00a0In addition to urban engagements, Anton built a reputation for charging low fees to small-town concert societies. \u00a0As a result, he has played in many small halls in North America.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the 1980s, he toured for many months by driving his piano in a specially converted van to Canada\u2019s more isolated communities, where musicians of his stature rarely, if ever, appear. \u00a0 Anton was deeply moved while performing in Flin Flon, Manitoba, a remote mining town with a population of about 15,000, where 750 people attended his recital. And with his usual esprit de corps, he performed in the Queen Charlotte Islands because an elderly woman wrote to him, saying how much she enjoyed listening to him on the radio and asked him to come to her town.<\/p>\n

Unsung, Anton has given benefit performances for numerous charitable organizations, including Oxfam, SOS Children\u2019s Villages, United Nations Children\u2019s Fund, Amnesty International, Pollution Probe, and WaterCan, donating 25% of CD sales directly to Oxfam.<\/p>\n

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Countries performed in:<\/strong>
\nAzerbaijan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, (former) Czechoslovakia, England, Estonia, France, Germany\u2013West and East, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Madeira, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, United States, Virgin Islands, (former) Yugoslavia. Has appeared in over 150 communities across Canada.<\/p>\n

\"Anton<\/a><\/p>\n

Major Orchestras performed with: <\/strong>
\nUnited States<\/strong>:<\/em> New York Philharmonic, National Symphony, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Denver, Detroit Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Honolulu, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Louis, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Minneapolis Symphony, Houston, Mostly Mozart, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Seattle Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra<\/p>\n

Canada<\/strong>:<\/em> Every professional orchestra including 55 concerts with Toronto Symphony and 2 European tours with National Arts Centre Orchestra<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Other<\/strong>: <\/em> London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Birmingham, Bournemouth, BBC Scottish Symphony, Berliner Rundfunksinfonie, Dresdner Staatskapelle, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Austrian Radio Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Shanghai Philharmonic, Prague Spring Festival Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica de Tucuman, Portugal National Symphony, Krakow Philharmonic, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, The Hague Philharmonic, Singapore National Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, State Symphony Orchestra, Bialystok SSR plus Belgium, Bulgaria, Cuba, former GDR, Peru.<\/p>\n

Conductors:<\/strong>
\nArthur Fiedler, George Szell, Eugene Ormandy, Yehudi Menuhin, William Steinberg, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Andrew Davis, Kurt Masur, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Sir Neville Marriner, Walter Susskind, George Trautwein, Anton Kersjes, James Loughram, Donald Johanos, Seiji Ozawa, Karel Ancerl, Boris Brott, Sir Edward Downes, Thomas Schippers, Mario Bernardi, Pinchas Zukerman, Jens Nygaard, Charles Dutoit, Iv\u00e1n Fischer, Michel Tabachnik, Choo Hoey, Alain Trudel, Sir Adrian Boult, Klaus Tennstedt, Paul Paray, Herbert Blomstedt, Kees Bakels, Franz Welser-M\u00f6st, Arvid Jansons, Hans Graf, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Johannes Fritzsch, Steven Smith, Julian Kuerti, G\u00fcnter Herbig, Ling Tung, Anatoly Engelbrecht, Harry Blech, Franz-Paul Decker, Victor Feldbrill, Ettore Mazzoleni, Jean-Pierre Rampal<\/p>\n

\"Poster<\/a>Notable Venues:<\/strong>
\nWiener Konzerthaus, Dresden Staatskapelle, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, Nieuwe Kerk [The Hague], Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Museum, Kennedy Center, Tschaikowskii Hall [Moscow], Smetana Hall [Prague], Royal Festival Hall [London], Queensland Performing Arts Centre [Brisbane]<\/p>\n

\"60th<\/a>Festival Appearances:<\/strong>
\nSpoleto [Italy], Prague [Czech Republic], Dubrovnik [Croatia], Santa Fe, Grand Teton, Newport, Caramoor, Ravinia, Aspen, Marlboro [U.S.], Lofoten [Norway], Lockenhaus [Austria], Guelph Spring, Ottawa Chamber Music, Music Bridge, Fort McLeod [Canada], Northern Lights [Mexico]<\/p>\n

Chamber Music:<\/strong>
\nPerformances with Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, Barry Tuckwell, and Cleveland, Colorado, Guarneri, New Zealand, Orford, St. Lawrence, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Fine Arts, Tokyo String, Vermeer, Tokai, Afiara, Alcan, Audubon, Da Ponte, Cecelia, Pacifica Quartets, Jacques Thibaud Trio, and New York Chamber Soloists<\/p>\n

New Works Premieres:<\/strong>
\nOskar Morawetz – Piano Concerto No. 1, 1963 with Montreal Symphony Orchestra
\nSophie Eckhardt-Gramatt\u00e9 – Symphony-Concerto, 1968 with CBC Festival Orchestra
\nSrul Irving Glick – Northern Sketches for choir, violin, cello and piano 1982 Festival of the Sound
\nBeethoven\/Kuerti – Piano Concerto in Eb major WoO 4, 2010 with National Broadcast Orchestra
\nTalivaldes Kenins – Piano Quintet
\nLarysa Kuzmenko – Entre Amis
\nAnton Kuerti \u2013 Piano Quintet – commissioned for Fort Macleod International Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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