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Classical concert pianist Asaf Blasberg has received his master’s degree in
piano performance from The Juilliard School in New York, and his bachelor degree
from the Mannes College of Music, New York.
His teachers include Jerome Lowenthal, Jerome Rose, David Beuchner, and Lucille
Straub. He began playing the piano at age four, and at ten, he started composing.
At age 11, he had the honor of playing a commissioned work written by Richard Felciano
for the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC) at the state convention
in Los Angeles.
Mr. Blasberg was the first prize winner in the Piano Performance category of the
Orange County Musicians’ Association. He has taken first place awards in the Glendale
McGaughey Competition,
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the California Association of Professional Music Teachers Bartok Festival, the Southern
California Junior Bach Festival, the West Los Angeles Branch Scholarship Competition,
and in the Southwestern Youth Music Festival at California State University, Dominguez
Hills, Young Pianist Category.
In 1997 and 1998, Mr. Blasberg gave a series of concerts at the Wales and Mansfield
Hotels in New York City. He was a semifinalist of the 1997 Naumburg International
Piano Competition.
He performed at the Tilles Center in Long Island, NY with the Gemini Youth Symphony
Orchestra under the baton of Kimbo Ishii-Eto in March 1999. In the summers of 1999
and 2000, he participated in the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in
New York City and was the second and third prize winner respectively. He is also
on the faculty of the festival. In 2002, Mr.
Blasberg performed twice at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.
Mr. Blasberg’s recent recordings include a CD of the last two sonatas of Franz Schubert,
as well as two solo piano CD recordings. A CD for the recorder and piano is also
available performed with his mother, Hava Blasberg.
He recently released an all-Liszt DVD.
Mr. Blasberg has performed his New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall,
Carnegie Hall New York on April 25th, 2004. He also performed the complete
Schumann piano sonatas as well as the Schubert posthumous sonatas at Steinway
Hall in the 2004-2005 season. His most recent concert, a recital of all-Brahms
piano pieces, took place at Mannes College of Music in New York. His next
concert will feature works by Beethoven, Schumann, Mozart and Chopin. |
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