VINTAGE! Pianist Igor Kipnis Hand Signed 3.25X4.75 B&W Photo

  
"Pianist" Igor Kipnis Hand Signed 3.25X4.75 B&W Photo. 27, 1930 - January 23, 2002 was a well-known. He was born in Berlin, where his father was.

Although Jewish, the elder Kipnis was popular in Germany during Nazism's rise. Employing the stratagem of a vocal injury, the elder Kipnis fled. When the Nazis annexed that country, the family was.

From there they moved to the US in 1938. Piano with his maternal grandfather. He served as the program director of. Harvard's undergraduate radio station. And made his concert debut in.

He was an honorary member of. 1977, and in 1993 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. Kipnis lived in Redding, Connecticut.

Was president and artistic director of the Friends of Music of Fairfield. County, the Connecticut chamber music series, in addition to having served. Thirteen years as co-artistic director of the Connecticut Early Music Festival. Kipnis was also a member of the faculty of Fairfield University in the.

Early 1970s, teaching between tours. He married Judith Robison on January 6.

Kipnis, became a film and record producer. Judith Kipnis divorced in May 1996, but reconciled shortly before her death on.

He died in his home in. Concert was a solo piano recital in October 2001, in San Francisco. His debut in 1959, harpsichordist. Kipnis performed in recital and as soloist.

With orchestras throughout the world, including North, Central, and South. America, Western and Eastern Europe. Igor Kipnis performed as harpsichord soloist with.

Cologne, Israel, New Stockholm, McGill, and Polish Chamber Orchestras. The Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Sinfonia of Sydney, and the. His appearances at international and. The Melbourne International Festival of Organ. Poland's Music in Old Crakow, the. Repertoire encompassed not only the traditional 16th through the 18th Century.

Composers but also includes contemporary music and jazz as well. Especially noted for his entertaining concert-length presentation, The Light.

And Lively Harpsichord, which samples the full range of the harpsichord. As well as for his informal mini-concerts whose. Format he has extensively pioneered at college student centers throughout the. United States, and, additionally, for his performances and recordings on.

Related early keyboard instruments, the. And for directing ensembles from the keyboard. 1995, he formed a duo with New York pianist. Internationally performing works for (modern) piano, four.