| 词条 | James Tocco |
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| name = James Tocco | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_place = | birth_date = 1943 | origin = Detroit, Michigan | instrument = Piano | genre = Classical | occupation = Pianist | years_active = 51 | label = Sony Classical | background=non_vocal_instrumentalist }} James Tocco (born 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American concert pianist. He is the youngest of thirteen children born to Vincenzo and Rose Tocco, both Sicilian immigrants. Early lifeBorn of Sicilian immigrant parents in Detroit, Mr. Tocco’s love of music -especially opera—began in early childhood. At six years old he began studying piano and at twelve he made his orchestral debut, performing Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto. He won a scholarship to the Salzburg Mozarteum and a French government grant to study with Magda Tagliaferro in Paris. His classical music education was completed with Claudio Arrau in New York. Soon afterward, he became more prominent with his first-prize victory in the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, followed being a replacement for Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli as guest soloist for the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto at the Vienna Festival. CareerIn the years since then he has concertized internationally, throughout North and South America, Europe, the Soviet Union, Japan, Australia, South Africa, and the Middle East. His orchestral engagements include:
ConductorsConductors with whom he has collaborated include:
Musical PerformanceMr. Tocco is a recitalist, orchestral soloist, chamber musician, and educator. He has performed many American and European masterworks, including Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety, which he recorded with Leonard Slatkin and the BBC London Symphony Orchestra, and the Corigliano Piano Concerto. The pianist’s performances included his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra debut, performing the MacDowell Concerto and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, both conducted by Leonard Slatkin. An especially accomplished recitalist, Mr. Tocco has performed interpretations of Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt, as well as 20th-century composers, and he regularly programs the keyboard works of Handel. Other performances include Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety with Marin Alsop and the New York Symphony, and Leonard Slatkin and the London-based BBC Symphony orchestra. DiscographyMr. Tocco’s discography includes:
Recently, he performed a recording of Corigliano’s Etude-Fantasy on Sony Classical. Educational WorkIn addition to his itinerary, Mr. Tocco is Eminent Scholar/Artist in Residence at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music and professor of piano at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany. Mr. Tocco is also the artistic director of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. HonorsHe is a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.[1] References
1. ^Delta Omicron {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127130549/http://delta-omicron.org/index00.html |date=2010-01-27 }} Reviews
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