| 词条 | John McKay (pianist) |
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Life and careerBorn in Montreal, McKay studied the piano with Lubka Kolessa in his native city as a boy. He graduated from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University with a Bachelor of Music in 1961. In 1962 he won the Prix d'Europe which enabled him to pursue studies in Vienna and Cologne with Bruno Seidlhofer and in Brussels with Stefan Askenase. In 1969 he joined the music faculties of both the University of Toronto and The Royal Conservatory of Music. He taught concurrently at those institutions until 1972 when was appointed head of the piano department at Dalhousie University. In 1971 he co-founded NOVA MUSIC, a Halifax-based organization dedicated to presenting new or seldom-performed music. In 1974 McKay emigrated to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts from the school in 1979 after completing a doctoral thesis on notational practices in piano works by 20th-century composers. While pursuing these studies he began teaching on the music faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota in 1976, remaining there until 2004. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1985. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002297|title=John McKay|author=Alan H. Cowle|work=The Canadian Encyclopedia}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mckay, John}} 15 : 1938 births|American classical pianists|American male pianists|American music educators|Canadian classical pianists|Canadian music educators|Dalhousie University faculty|Eastman School of Music alumni|Gustavus Adolphus College faculty|Living people|McGill University alumni|Prix d'Europe winners|The Royal Conservatory of Music faculty|University of Toronto faculty|20th-century American pianists |
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