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January 16, 2004|Volume 32, Number 15|Two-Week Issue



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Boris Berman



Pianist wins Grammy Award nomination

December was a good month for Boris Berman, chair of the School of Music's piano department and a renowned performing and recording artist.

On Dec. 4, he was notified that he had earned a Grammy nomination for his recording with the Vermeer String Quartet of piano quintets by Shostakovich and Schnittke on the Naxos label.

That night, he performed a recital of works by Haydn and Prokofiev in Sprague Hall as part of the School of Music's Horowitz Piano Series -- becoming the first musician to present a recital on Vladimir Horowitz's personal piano since the death of the legendary virtuoso. (Berman will perform again as part of the series on Friday, April 20, when he will join his Yale colleague, Peter Frankl, in a four-hands recital.)

The following week, Berman learned that the Chinese language version of his book, "Notes from the Pianist's Bench," originally published by Yale University Press, had been released in Taipei. The translation was done by one of Berman's former students at Yale, Chiao-han Liao.

During his career, Berman has performed in over 40 countries on six continents. He was the founding director of the Music Spectrum concert series in Israel 1975-1984 and of the Yale Music Spectrum series 1984-1997. A member of the Yale faculty since 1984, he is also an active recording artist. He was the first pianist to record the complete solo works by Prokofiev, and his recital of Shostakovich piano works received the Edison Classic Award in Holland, the Dutch equivalent of the Grammy.


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