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RICHARD STEINBACH, PIANIST
Pianist Richard Steinbach performed his solo debut recital at Carnegie Hall in New York in June 2015. Steinbach’s Carnegie Hall debut featured the premiere of his seventh CD titled FUSION: New Music for a New Age and was the culminating event for the international “Fusion Project” that Steinbach launched in 2014. Dr. Steinbach made his second appearance at Carnegie Hall in June 2019 with violinist, Eric Grossman of The Julliard School. Steinbach has performed extensively as both soloist and collaborative artist in concerts throughout the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Great Britain, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru), Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, India, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan and The People’s Republic of China. As the grand prizewinner in the France Piano International Competition, he performed his solo debut recital at the Salle Cortot in Paris in January 1996.
Throughout his career, Steinbach has established himself as an extraordinarily versatile artist whose insightful interpretations of contemporary music have been widely acclaimed. The Gazetta del Mezzogiorno (Bari, Italy) stated that Steinbach’s performance exhibited sonorous expressivity, consummate clarity and insightful sensitivity. Richard Steinbach’s past performances have included collaborations with such prestigious international artists as violinist Charles Castleman, cellist Nathaniel Rosen, flautists Michel Bellavance, Philippa Davies and Martha Councell-Vargas, conductor Xian Zhang and pianist Emanuele Arciuli.
Steinbach served as Professor of Music at Briar Cliff University for much of his career and he holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Colorado, the Eastman School of Music, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Iowa. www.RichardSteinbachPiano.com
"a mesmerizing performance by an artist who both totally understands the composer’s magical world, and also possesses the virtuosity to present it to us. Any composer myself included would be privileged by an interpretation as intelligent and powerful as Mr. Steinbach’s." American Composer, John Corigliano
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"Music that recalls the American soul, jazz, psychedelic, romantic atmospheres was the piano performance of the maestro RICHARD STEINBACH. An acoustic and visual spectacle welcomed the large audience in the harmony of an incomparable place, at the sunset of a clear day refreshed by the talented maestro. Notes upon notes and repeated applause even more intense when at the end of his performance the great Artist intoned, offering the audience the encore of George Gershwin's "Summertime."
- Vito Palmisani, Artistic Director BARI PIANO FESTIVAL June 6, 2024
“Uncommon expressive naturalness” remarkable sensitivity and natural expression with impressionistic repertoire.”
- Corriere del Mezzogiorno, Bari, Italy; March 2001
“Steinbach moved through the [George Crumb “Suite”] with meditative discipline, shaping the broken fragments” with equal doses of controlled accuracy and relaxed resonance.”
- The Princeton Star-Ledger; July, 2005
“enormous musical imagination and a highly polished technique. It is indeed satisfying to have one’s music performed with such sensitivity and dedication!”
- American Composer, George Crumb; June, 1999
“a mesmerizing performance by an artist who both totally understands the composer’s magical world and also possesses the virtuosity to present it to us. Any composer myself included would be privileged by an interpretation as intelligent and powerful as Mr. Steinbach’s.”
- American Composer, John Corigliano; July, 1997
“a clear, concentrated, extremely intense performance! Mr. Steinbach’s direct but subtle, colorful but natural, unmannered style was a delight to everyone in the audience.”
- Noel Lee, Composer/Pianist, Review of Paris Debut Recital; January, 1996
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