Mordecai shehori biography books
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The Israeli-born American pianist, Mordecai Shehori, was born into an artistically gifted family in Israel. He embraces a rich pianistic tradition that emphasizes a unique physical and spiritual approach to music making, as taught to him early on by the legendary pianist Mindru Katz. At 9 Shehori gave his first public performance. Later he received first prize at the Beethoven Competition and received the American Israel Cultural Foundation Award. He came to America to continue his musical studies and graduated from the Juilliard School of Music in New York, under the tutelage of Beveridge Webster, and later studied with Claude Frank at the Mannes College of Music.
Mordecai Shehori made his New York debut after winning the Jeunesses Musicales Competition. He concertizes in the USA, Canada, and Europe and has performed at various music festivals and at the White House. Today he is internationally recognized for his brilliant virtuosity, sophisticated and inspired interpretation, a
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Mordecai Shehori: finding that special &#;zing&#; in your piano
Pianist Mordecai Shehori’s prodigious output of CDs over the past few years must be setting some kind of record. Almost every piece of the piano repertoire he has studied throughout his long career is being preserved for posterity, now amounting to 31 CDs. “A lot more beautiful music is still to come,” he says, “And much of it was never played well before.”
His criteria for choosing repertoire are strictly personal. “I only study pieces I have a deep connection with,” he says. “How many CDs will there be? I have big plans.”
His next launch, due out this fall on his own Cembal d‘amour label, will include Book I, the first 12 sets of preludes and fugues, of the Bach Well-Tempered Clavier. The remaining 36 will follow.
Shehori’s fan base is on alert and so am I. He has sent me excerpts of the 12 and I can recommend them as a very fresh treatment based on his refined keyboard technique and his grasp of the materia
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New memoir: &#;Isaac Stern tried to expel me from the US&#;
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norman lebrecht
July 11,
The memoir by förnamn Rosand, which we published earlier this week, has opened the floodgates to reminiscences bygd musicians who claim to have suffered at the hands of the superpower violinist Isaac Stern. Most were fellow violinists, but other artists did not escape his attention.
The ensuing discussion on has prompted the Israeli-born pianist Mordecai Shehori to raid his own painful memories.
Mordecai, from to , was the piano teacher of Isaac&#;s children. Vera Stern called him &#;almost nightly&#; to discuss the events of the day. Why did Isaac vända against him? we asked. &#;Maybe Stern wanted to sever my good relationship with his children? Maybe I upset him because I had a more intellectual and artistic approach to music? Stern&#;s taste in music was very narrow. In any case inom was dropped and erased. Then Vera was assigned to intimidate my mother and try to deport me back to Israel.