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...after winning two international competitions, the prodigy made the leap to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. By the time he stepped in for an ailing Andre Watts at Chicago's Ravinia Festival in 1999, the classical establishment was ready to embrace him as a new Evgeny Kissin or even Van Cliburn: a fresh personality with a staggering technique and an engagingly soulful temperament...
...list of accolades includes the 1990 Gilmore Young Artists Award, a scholarship for exceptionally promising American pianists aged 22 or younger. The pianist—known as “Kit” to his friends—also received a bronze medal in 1993 at the renowned Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and won the William Kapell International Piano Competition. In 2000 he was nominated for a fellowship by the American Pianists Association...
...year after graduation, Taylor became the first American to reach the finals of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition since...
Though Taylor says he feels that competitions were helpful in jump-starting his career, he does not plan to enter any more in the future. During the years following the Van Cliburn, he performed all over the country before getting his Masters in teaching at the New England Conservatory of Music. He believes teaching is an important part of being a musician...
...same repertoire played by different artists to show the dramatic shifts in style and temperament through the century. The collection contains a recording of Vladimir Horowitz playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 during World War II. The performance is fanatical and wild--in sharp contrast to Van Cliburn's rendition, recorded after his famed competition win in Moscow in 1958, which is tender, lyrical and full of the charm that captivated the Russians. Similarly, Great Pianists traces the varying interpretations of Chopin through the century--from Ignaz Friedman (tempestuous, uncontrolled) to Artur Rubinstein (cool, modern and free of excess...