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Reminiscences on WILLIAM KAPELL: A Retrospective
Author(s): Koji Attwood (Author)
- Publisher: TMK Musique, LLC
- Publication Date: March 28, 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 32 pages
- ISBN-10: B00C3PJV28
Book Description
At 8:40 A.M. on October 29, 1953, the American classical music scene changed forever.
The acute impression and subsequent tragic early loss of William Kapell is explored here through two in-depth interviews with his student Jerome Lowenthal, and colleague Gary Graffman.
“Kapell was a pathfinder of the most extraordinarily potent kind,” his student, pianist Jerome Lowenthal, once said. “There’s a beauty, an aesthetic completeness about that driven, violent personality, cutting a path through the world, becoming the adored hero of the public, playing ever more beautifully and finally colliding with a mountain. That’s the stuff of legend.”
Koji Attwood (Author), a Kansas native, made his solo debut at the age of ten, and one year later won second prize at the Young Keyboard Artists International Competition. He earned second prize at both the Stravinsky and the Missouri Southern International Keyboard competitions, and received honorary mention at the VII International Web Concert Hall Competition. Koji was also a winner of Astral Artistic Services’ 2003 International Auditions, and was a featured artist on yamahamusicsoft.com’s “New York City Rising Star” series.
Mr. Attwood has performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, Merkin Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, along with participating in the prestigious IKIF and Husum festivals, and was featured, with pianists Marc-Andre Hamelin and Daniel Berman on the 2009 “Rarities of Piano” Danacord release. As a collaborative artist, Mr. Attwood has performed with members of the Borromeo and St. Lawrence String quartets, the Mark Morris Dance Group, American Ballet Theatre, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Prior to receiving a Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Seymour Lipkin, Koji studied at the University of Kansas with Richard Angeletti. He then went on to earn a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree under the tutelage of Jerome Lowenthal.
