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(1882–1947), violinist. Lorand Fenyves. Violinist, teacher, b Budapest 20 Feb 1918, naturalized Canadian 1971, d Switzerland 23 March 2004. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where his teachers included Oscar Studer, Jenö Hubay, Leo Weiner, Imre Waldbauer, and Zoltán Kodály. Fenyves, Lorand Lorand Fenyves. Violinist, teacher, b Budapest 20 Feb 1918, naturalized Canadian 1971, d Switzerland 23 March 2004. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where his teachers included Oscar Studer, Jenö Hubay, Leo Weiner, Imre Waldbauer, and Zoltán Kodály. In 1934 he earned the artist's and teacher's diploma, won the Hubay Prize, and began his career with a tour of Europe and the premiere of Felix Weingartner's Concerto in Budapest and Vienna, with the composer conducting. At the invitation of Bronislaw Huberman, Fenyves emigrated to Palestine in 1936 and became concertmaster of the new Palestine Symphony Orchestra (later the Israel Philharmonic). There he also was one of five founders of the Israel Conservatory and Academy of Music in 1940. In Tel Aviv he founded the Fenyves Quartet (1940-56), renamed the Israel String Quartet in 1948. He moved to Geneva in 1957 as concertmaster of the Orchestre de la Suisse romande and teacher at the Geneva Conservatory. He came to Canada in 1963 as string teacher and coach at the Orford Art Centre (returning there each year until 1976, and continuing to teach there in the early 2000s). Together with Gilles Lefebvre he developed plans for the formation of an ensemble that was destined to become the Orford String Quartet (the violins of which - Andrew Dawes and Kenneth Perkins - had been pupils of his in Geneva). A visiting teacher at the University of Toronto in 1965, Fenyves settled in Toronto in 1966 and joined the Faculty of Music where he continued to coach the Orford Quartet. He was named professor emeritus in 1983 and remained on the teaching faculty in 2004. He also began to teach at the University of Western Ontario in 1985. His pupils included Adele Armin, Otto Armin, Steven Dann, Victor Martin, Erika Raum, and many others who have been members of major Canadian orchestras. He was a teacher and coach with the JM World Orchestra in 1970 and 1976, with the NYO 1966-77, and in 1972 he began his continuous association with the Banff CA. As well, he taught at the RCMT's Glenn Gould Professional School. He gave master classes in England at Aldeburgh, the Cornwall International Seminar of Music, and the Royal Northern College of Music; in Japan annually at the Toho School; in Hungary each year beginning in 1985; and in the USA He took part in the Haydn-Riegger Festival in Austria in 1993. Fenyves performed extensively in Europe and North America as a chamber musician, as soloist with major orchestras under such conductors as Ansermet, Bernstein, Fricsay, Ozawa, and Schuricht, and with such recital partners as Béla Siki, György Sebök, Menahem Pressler, Anton Kuerti, Patricia Parr, Pierre Souvairan, and Lydia Wong. He continued to perform solo and chamber music at Banff, Toronto, and elsewhere, including at his 85th birthday concert at the University of Toronto in 2003. An outstanding performer and exceptional teacher, Fenyves possessed what William Aide described as 'a wisdom about what music means and how it can be taught as a life-affirming force' (Notes from the Faculty of Music, Spring-Summer 1983). He was awarded Hungary's Cross of the Order of Merit in 1998. Fenyves was considered by many to be one of the greatest violin teachers in the world (Globe and  20 Feb 1998). Born in Hungary in 1918, Lorand Fenyves was recognized as a child prodigy, attending the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and studying with Jeno Hubay and Zoltan Kodaly. Though already an internationally renowned violinist and performer, he knew from the very beginning that he wanted to teach as well, and in 1934 he graduated from the Academy with a degree in performance as well as in music pedagogy. In 1936, more than a decade before the establishment of the State of Israel, and just 18 years old, Fenyves was appointed concertmaster of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. At the same time, he founded the Fenyves String Quartet, and co-founded the Tel Aviv Conservatory of Music. During his years in Israel he began a tradition that he continued throughout his life: accepting students not according to their ability to pay but according to their enthusiasm, motivation, and talent. When the famed Swiss Ernest Ansermet invited Fenyves to take the position of concertmaster at the Suisse Romande, he accepted the position only on the condition he could continue teaching. He moved his young family to Geneva in 1957, becoming a professor at the Conservatoire de Geneve and leading the “classe de virtuosite”. When U of T’s Faculty of Music came calling a decade later, Fenyves moved to Canada. He knew that by maintaining his focus on teaching and growing talent, he would permanently change the course of classical music in Canada. At the Faculty of Music, he found willing partners and support for his vision. The Faculty became his musical base; his colleagues became family. Fenyves’ energy, wisdom and leadership brought the level of music in Canada to a new high. Lorand Fenyves approached life and music with humility. He knew he had been given a gift to share, and never allowed his ego to overshadow the music. Fenyves believed that teaching was not only a privilege but also a duty to help prepare future generations of musicians. For almost seven decades, he was a teacher, mentor and role model for thousands of students and colleagues, performing and teaching across Canada and around the world. Throughout his life, Fenyves combined his joy of performing with his love of teaching and sharing his gift with younger musicians. In the words of former student turned colleague and accomplished performer and teacher Scott St. John, “Lorand Fenyves approached both life and the violin with elegance, grace and humility. His energy, generosity and spirit must be carried forward by all who knew him.” LORÁND FENYVES 20 February 1918, Budapest – 23 March 2004, Toronto Loránd Fenyves attended one of the last of Jenő Hubay's legendary violin classes in 1934. He was aged only sixteen when, following lengthy studies with Oszkár Studer at the Music Academy, he completed the artists' training in only a year. As with all the Hungarian musicians of his generation, the chamber music teaching of Leo Weiner played a decisive role in his artistic development. It was complemented by quartet playing studies with Imre Waldbauer. Like many other interested instrumental players, he also visited for a while Zoltán Kodály's composition classes. He gave a characteristically lively account of the stimulating atmosphere of the Music Academy in the thirties: "In those days things were different everywhere in the world, thus here, too. For example: I had nothing to do with Bartók. Yes, but Bartók taught at the Music Academy! He walked up the same stairs that I did! When Bartók walked along the corridor at three, I was there already at half past two. And when they asked me at home what had happened that day, I could say: I greeted Bartók! Of course he did not reply, did not even notice me, but I had greeted him, standing a mere metre away from him, and that was enough to give me pleasure all week!"   In 1936 Bronislaw Hubermann, in Budapest on a visit, invited Fenyves to join the Palestine Symphony Orchestra (the Israeli Philharmonic since 1948), which was being formed then. Though he had another tempting offer from a Swedish orchestra as well, he nonetheless decided to join the pioneer undertaking. Thus, he had to play his part in the creation of musical culture in a country gradually being populated and living almost continuously under conditions of war. He was orchestral leader under the baton of Toscanini, later Bernstein and a host of other world-famous conductors, but frequently appeared also as a soloist. With colleagues from Budapest, among them his sister, he founded and for two decades led the Israel String Quartet, in which, besides Alice Fenyves, the viola player and composer Ödön Pártos and the cellist László Vincze participated. With several other musicians originally from Hungary, he was also a founding professor of the Tel Aviv Music Academy.   In 1957, Fenyves left Israel and for a while moved to Geneva, where he became the leader of the Suisse Romande under Ernest Ansermet, and a professor of the Geneva Conservatoire. We can admire his ability as leader – or, as with Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherezade, his talent as a soloist - on many famous discs. In 1966 he moved on to Canada. Here he gave up orchestral playing and concentrated on giving concert performances and teaching at Toronto University. He became a one-man public institution in the musical life of Canada, teaching at several universities and at the summer courses of the Banff Music Centre. The latter was the home of Zoltán Székely, and a very popular place to visit among Hungarian musicians. Even beyond the age of eighty, Fenyves travelled a great deal. He led regular master courses in Tokyo and Madrid, and occasional ones elsewhere.   It was after an absence of fifty years, in 1986, that he visited Hungary again. Thereafter for the next decade he was a regular guest of Hungarian musical life. That is how Kristóf Csengery once characterised his playing: "He represents another age, another mentality, an approach to music that is different from the current one: one which was able, while taking the compositions completely seriously, nonetheless to create some sort of close, informal relationship between the piece and the performer. And this relationship, as we can observe in every little phrase of Fenyves' playing, each bowing movement, has a magic." Commissioned by the Academy, over several years, for a week at a time, Hungarian violinists were able to listen to his advice based on his inexhaustible fund of experience. János Kárpáti wrote about him on his eightieth birthday: "He has no methodology of his own, yet Loránd Fenyves is one of the greatest musician-teachers of the second half of the 20th century. The secret of his teaching lies in his knowledge of the work that goes to its essence, and in the mutual respect, and even affection between teacher and pupil."   His remarkable memory was an inexhaustible store of information on 20th century musical history. He knew practically every prominent musician, and had some thoughts grasping their essence, or an anecdote with a lesson. It was the overriding respect he felt for music-making and his wise understanding of people that made him someone who not only as a musician but also as a fatherly friend made a mark lasting a lifetime on his acquaintances and pupils. Lorand Fenyves Inspirational violin teacher Tuesday 1 June 2004 00:00  Lorand Fenyves was one of a generation of talented Hungarian violinists who trained at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in the 1930s, under a group of outstanding teachers who included Jenö Hubay and Zoltán Kodály Lorand Fenyves, violinist and teacher: born Budapest 20 February 1918; married 1952 Vera Kemeny (two daughters); died Zurich, Switzerland 23 March 2004. Lorand Fenyves was one of a generation of talented Hungarian violinists who trained at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in the 1930s, under a group of outstanding teachers who included Jenö Hubay and Zoltán Kodály. He made his concert début at the age of 13, and subsequently built a successful international career as orchestral player, chamber musician, soloist and teacher that stretched over 70 years. Fenyves, who was born into a musical Jewish family in Budapest in 1918, graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy in 1934. In that same year he won the Hubay prize, and was the soloist in the first performances of Felix von Weingartner's Violin Concerto in Budapest and Vienna, with the composer conducting. By 1936 he had become convinced that war in Europe was inevitable, and he gave up a promising career to accept an invitation from Bronislaw Huberman, the great Polish violinist, to join other refugees from the Nazis in emigrating to Palestine. He became a member of Huberman's Palestine Symphony Orchestra - which later changed its name to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - and was soon appointed its leader. Fenyves's boundless energy and dedication also found outlets in teaching - in 1940 he was one of the five founders of the Israel Conservatory and Academy of Music - and in chamber music. The string quartet he formed and led in Tel Aviv was for many years the country's foremost chamber ensemble. In 1957 Fenyves and his family moved to Geneva, where he was appointed leader of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, under Ernest Ansermet. He was also professor of violin at the Conservatoire de Genève. He stayed in Switzerland for eight years, before emigrating again, this time to Canada. He became a Canadian citizen in 1971, but he had not intended to stay. His first visit, in 1963, was as a teacher at the annual Jeunesses Musicales summer school at Mount Orford, Quebec. In the following year he took a one-year visiting professorship at the University of Toronto, which became a permanent appointment. Fenyves exerted an extraordinary influence on violin teaching and performance in his adopted country. "Lorand single-handedly created a generation of string professionals in Canada," said the dean of the Toronto music faculty, where Fenyves remained until his retirement in 1983. But retiring did not mean slowing down. On the contrary, with the title of Emeritus Professor he continued to teach with undiminished commitment until the end of his life. In 1988 Fenyves founded a scholarship to provide financial support for gifted string students in the music faculty's performance programme. In February 2003 the university held an 85th birthday concert in his honour. In 1985 he also began to teach at the University of Western Ontario, where he trained many of Canada's leading performers. In 1972, among many other ventures involving young musicians, he had begun an association with the Banff Centre of the Arts that was to continue until his death. He also taught at the Glenn Gould Professional School in Toronto, and had a long association with Canada's National Youth Orchestra. Fenyves was a regular visitor to Britain, where he performed at the Wigmore Hall, and gave solo and chamber music master classes at the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, the Royal Northern College of Music and Aldeburgh. He also made annual visits to the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo from 1980 onwards, and from 1985 he returned regularly to his native Hungary, which showed its appreciation by awarding him the Cross of the Order of Merit in 1998, on his 80th birthday. A charming and unassuming man, Lorand Fenyves was, by common consent, one of the world's greatest and most inspirational violin teachers, with a rare understanding of, and sympathy for, the needs and interests of young musicians. Promising performers, who went on to make brilliant careers as soloists, such as Tasmin Little in Britain, competed to attend his classes and seek his professional guidance. Although he will perhaps be remembered best as a teacher, Fenyves performed as a soloist with the leading conductors of the day, including Ernest Ansermet, Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. He also recorded for all the leading labels, including Decca, RCA and CBC. Annie Shaw Lorand Fenyves was one of the most wonderful and lovable men I have ever known, writes Steven Isserlis. He exuded warmth and kindness; it was impossible not to be charmed by his wit, at the same time as being enriched by his wisdom. He had a marvellous face, that of a tragic clown, constantly mobile and deeply expressive. One moment he could be telling, with tears in his eyes, the saddest of stories; the next, his every feature could light up with a wicked twinkle as he passed some telling comment on the foibles of life. As a musician, his gentle warmth and thoughtful nature shone through every note he played. Every year he would arrive, with his adorable wife Vera, at the seminar in Cornwall where we taught and played together, usually not having touched his violin in weeks; at our first rehearsal, he would sound out of practise (though always special) - and would rebuke me roundly if I attempted to compliment him on his playing. After that, he would sound better and better each day; to rehearse with him was a delight, ideas and stories pouring out of him in a constant stream of entertaining insights. By the concert, he would always sound marvellous. Lorand Fenyves Lorand Fenyves was a Hungarian violinist and teacher born (in Budapest) on February 20, 1918.  He is known for having spent much of his career in Canada and is credited with helping establish an entire generation of musicians in that country.  His teachers in Hungary included Jeno Hubay and Zoltan Kodaly, internationally known violinist and composer, respectively.  Though he made his professional debut at age 13, he graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy in 1934, at age 16.  Two years later, having been recruited by Bronislaw Huberman, he left Europe for Israel to become a founding member of the Palestine Symphony (Israel Philharmonic.)  He soon became its concertmaster.  He was 18 years old.  In 1940, he helped found the Israel Conservatory and Academy of Music in Tel Aviv.  He also organized the Israel String Quartet, originally known as the Fenyves String Quartet.  He moved to Switzerland in 1957 (at age 39) where he was concertmaster of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and violin professor at the Geneva Conservatory.  He visited Canada in the summer of 1963.  The following year, he accepted a one-year position at the University of Toronto.  He actually remained there until his retirement in 1983.  In 2003, the University gave a recital in honor of his 85th birthday – a common thing for universities to do for their revered music professors.  After his retirement from the University of Toronto, Fenyves began teaching (in 1985) at the University of Western Ontario.  Nevertheless, he also gave masterclasses at music centers around the world and performed as violin soloist with well-known conductors and orchestras numerous times.  You can listen to Fenyves play a Bach Sonata in this YouTube audio file, recorded when he was about 70 years old.  Among his pupils are Tasmin Little, Elissa Lee, Scott St John, and Lynn Kuo.  Fenyves died (in Zurich, Switzerland) on March 23, 2004, at age 86.  The 1720 (circa 1720) Stradivarius violin which he owned – now known as the Fenyves Strad – was sold at auction in 2006 for about $1,500,000 USD.  Fenyves had purchased it in 1961.   *****Menahem Pressler, founding member and pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio, has established himself among the world’s most distinguished and honored musicians, with a career that spans almost six decades. Now, at 91 years old, he continues to captivate audiences throughout the world as performer and pedagogue, performing solo and chamber music recitals to great critical acclaim while maintaining a dedicated and robust teaching career. Born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1923, Pressler fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to Israel. Pressler’s world renowned career was launched after he was awarded first prize at the Debussy International Piano Competition in San Francisco in 1946. This was followed by his successful American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Eugene Ormandy. Since then, Pressler’s extensive tours of North America and Europe have included performances with the orchestras of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Paris, Brussels, Oslo, Helsinki and many others. After nearly a decade of an illustrious and praised solo career, the 1955 Berkshire Music Festival saw Menahem Pressler’s debut as a chamber musician, where he appeared as pianist with the Beaux Arts Trio. This collaboration quickly established Pressler’s reputation as one of the world’s most revered chamber musicians. With Pressler at the Trio’s helm as the only pianist for nearly 55 years, The New York Times described the Beaux Arts Trio as “in a class by itself” and the Washington Post exclaimed that “since its founding more than 50 years ago, the Beaux Arts Trio has become the gold standard for trios throughout the world.” The 2007-2008 season was nothing short of bitter-sweet, as violinist Daniel Hope, cellist Antonio Meneses and Menahem Pressler took their final bows as The Beaux Arts Trio, which marked the end of one of the most celebrated and revered chamber music careers of all time. What saw the end of a one artistic legacy also witnessed the beginning of another, as Pressler continues to dazzle audiences throughout the world, both as piano soloist and collaborating chamber musician, including performances with the Juilliard, Emerson, American, and Cleveland Quartets, among many others. Of his recent solo performance in Austria, Die Presse wrote: “he struck a tone that was long believed lost already, a tone we perhaps last heard from Wilhelm Kempff.” His upcoming solo concertizing engagements include performances with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestra de Paris and the Concertgebow Orchestra, among others. For nearly 60 years, Menahem Pressler has taught on the piano faculty at the world-renowned Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he currently holds the rank of Distinguished Professor of Music as the Charles Webb Chair. Equally as illustrious as his performing career, Professor Pressler has been hailed as “Master Pedagogue” and has had prize-winning students in all of the major international piano competitions, including the Queen Elizabeth, Busoni, Rubenstein, Leeds and VanCliburn competitions among many others. His former students grace the faculties of prestigious schools of music across the world, and have become some of the most prominent and influential artist-teachers today. In addition to teaching his private students at Indiana University, he continuously presents master classes throughout the world, and continues to serve on the jury of many major international piano competitions. Among his numerous honors and awards, Pressler has received honorary doctorates from the Manhattan School of Music, the University of Nebraska, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the North Carolina School of the Arts, six Grammy nominations (including one in 2006), lifetime achievement awards from Gramo magazine and the International Chamber Music Association, Chamber Music America’s Distinguished Service Award, the Gold Medal of Merit from the National Society of Arts and Letters. He has also been awarded the German Critics “Ehrenurkunde” award, and election into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007 Pressler was appointed as an Honorary Fellow of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in recognition of a lifetime of performance and leadership in music. In 2005 Pressler received two additional awards of international merit: the German President’s Deutsche Bundesverdienstkreuz (German Cross of Merit) First Class, Germany’s highest honor, and France’s highest cultural honor, the Commandeur in the Order of Arts and Letters award. His more recent honors and awards include the prestigious Wigmore Medal (2011), the Menuhin Prize given by the Queen of Spain (2012), inductions into the American Classical Music and Gramo Magazine Halls of Fame (2012), and the Music Teachers National Association Achievement Award. In addition to recording nearly the entire piano chamber repertoire with the Beaux Arts Trio on the Philips label, Menahem Pressler has compiled over thirty solo recordings, ranging from the works of Bach to Ben Haim. ****  Current and former students to pay tribute to Menahem Pressler at 80th birthday celebration concert Facebook Twitter Newsfeeds StumbleUpon Delicious Print this page EDITORS: To speak to Pressler or for more details about the celebration, contact Ryan Piurek, IU Media Relations,  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Ask legendary pianist Menahem Pressler what he has found most rewarding in a career that spans nearly a half-century and he'll tell you, without hesitation, it has to be his students. The Indiana University Distinguished Professor of Music will turn 80 on Dec. 16, a birthday he shares with Beethoven. Pressler clearly treasures the hundreds of musicians who have studied with him, many of whom have gone on to achieve international stardom themselves. "I love teaching and I love all of my students," he said. "They have always been a very important part of my life." Many of those students -- as well as fellow musicians, colleagues and friends -- plan to return the adoration at an 80th birthday celebration concert for Pressler on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. in Auer Hall at the IU School of Music. The concert will feature performances by current and former students, selected to represent the scope of Pressler's teaching career, which began at IU in 1955. It will also include a few surprise guest speakers and performers. Seating for the event is primarily by invitation. A very limited number of seats will be available to the public the evening of the concert. "I am very touched by this celebration," Pressler said. "It is a feeling that is hard to describe. Is it love? Is it respect? I'm not sure. I do know that it certainly has been a very beautiful time here at IU." The celebration concert has been designed to focus on Pressler's "teaching and wonderful relationship with his students," said Melinda Baird, coordinator of the concert and one of Pressler's current doctoral students. Baird said she has sent almost 300 letters to Pressler's former students, including those he taught at master classes in California and Vermont. The response has been overwhelming from those who are excited to return to Bloomington to honor their mentor, she added. Pressler is no stranger to honors, having established himself among the world's most distinguished and celebrated musicians. In 1994, he received Chamber Music America's Distinguished Service Award. In 1998, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from Gramo magazine in London. That same year, he was given the German Critics "Ehrenurkunde" award in recognition of 40 years of being the standard by which chamber music is measured. Pressler was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. Born in Magdeburg, Germany, Pressler began his association with the IU School of Music in 1955. That same year, he co-founded the Beaux Arts Trio, which has become one of the world's most enduring and widely acclaimed chamber music ensembles. The trio performs more than 100 concerts and master classes each year in the world's major music centers and has made over 50 recordings. Additionally, Pressler has compiled over 30 solo recordings and performed with many of the world's leading orchestras and chamber ensembles. When not on tour with the Beaux Arts Trio, giving solo performances or teaching master classes worldwide, Pressler can be found in his studio at IU, instructing a new generation of students who have come to learn from the master. "Keeping this pace takes a lot of energy," he readily admitted, "but I just try to go along with whatever the years bring me. I enjoy each new year, each time the seasons change and each time the students change. Even now, when I get a new group of students, I feel reborn." ***Grete Liffers portrays the life and character of 90 year-old legendary pianist Menahem Pressler. The music world knows Menahem Pressler for more than half a century. His success with the famous Beaux Arts Trio made him one of the most prominent artists of his generation. He was the heart of this ensemble. But when in 2008 the trio decided to separate, it was not the end for Menahem Pressler – in fact it was the restart of a memorable solo career. In 2013, the 90-year-old grand seigneur of the piano gave his long overdue debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker, before returning to Berlin for the annual New Year's Eve celebrations of the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2014. This portrait by Grete Liffers, you will meet with the master of the piano, Menahem Pressler. The life I Love – The Pianist Menahem Pressler, comprises new recorded talks with Menahem Pressler over excerpts from one of his master classes, interviews with artists like Daniel Harding, the Quatuor Ébène, Leonidas Kavakos or Daniel Hope, archive images from his concerts and his appearances with the Beaux Arts Trio... This portrait gains deep insights into the life of this enchantingly “venerable prodigy”. *** PRESSLER, MENAHEM (1928– ), pianist. Originating in Magdeburg, the family immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939. Pressler received most of his musical training in Israel – he studied with Eliyahu Rudiakow and Prof. Leo Kestenberg. A brilliant soloist, he first achieved international prominence at the age of 17, when he won the Claude Debussy Prize. He made his North American concerto debut shortly thereafter with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Ormandy (1948). Pressler appeared and recorded regularly with leading orchestras around the world. From 1955 he was professor and later distinguished professor of piano at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and pianist/founder of the famous Beaux Arts Trio, which became one of the world's most enduring and widely acclaimed chamber music ensembles. The trio recorded almost the entire piano trio literature and received many prestigious awards. Pressler also appeared with the Juilliard, Emerson, Guarneri, and Fine Arts Quartets. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Grama magazine in London and the German Critics Ehrenurkunde award in recognition of 40 years as the standard by which chamber music is measured. ****  Menahem Pressler à Lyon : "Je me sens comme le compositeur des oeuvres que je joue" Si la virtuosité à une âme, alors c’est celle de Menahem Pressler. A plus de 90 ans, le pianiste américain fascine encore le public avec son jeu à la fois profond et limpide. Il est de passage à l’Auditorium de Lyon le 26 septembre pour jouer avec l’Orchestre national de Lyon dirigé par Joshua Weilerstein. Rencontre pendant les répétitions avec un musicien malicieux et habité. A 90 ans passés, Menahem Pressler possède toujours un jeu à la fois enfantin et subtil (Indiana University) Chrystel Chabert Rédaction Culture France Télévisions Mis à jour le 06/12/2016 | 06:30 publié le 25/09/2015 | 15:29 Partager Twitter Envoyer LA NEWSLETTER ACTU Nous la préparons pour vous chaque matin France Télévisions utilise votre adresse  afin de vous adresser des newsletters. Pour exercer vos droits, contactez-nous. Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici. il y a 8 minutes  : quatre questions sur la possible réduction de la durée de la quarantaine évoquée par Olivier Véran Au programme du concert à l'Auditorium de Lyon : Dimitri Chostakovitch (Suite de Hamlet), Mozart (Concerto pour piano et orchestre n° 27) et Antonín Dvořák (Symphonie nº 7). Pour accompagner Menahem Pressler, le chef assistant de l’Orchestre philharmonique de New York , Joshua Weilerstein, qui du haut de ses 28 ans dirigera l’ONL.   Reportage : O. Denoyelle / A. Henry / L. Cortial Le 16 décembre prochain, Menahem Pressler aura 92 ans. C’est peu dire que sa vie aura été bien remplie et surtout guidée par une sorte de bonne étoile qui a veillé sur ce génie du piano. Enfant, Menahem Pressler veut faire du violon mais quand son frère tombe malade, c’est lui qui va suivre les cours à domicile du professeur de piano. Il fuit l’Allemagne nazie avec ses parents juste avant la Nuit de cristal. Direction l’Italie, puis la Palestine où la pianiste Eliyahu Rudiakow puis le français Paul Loyonnet  le prennent sous leurs ailes. C’est Loyonnet qui organise le départ de Menahem pour les Etats-Unis. En 1946, à 23 ans, le jeune homme remporte le Premier Prix du concours Debussy à San Francisco. Il entame une carrière solo avant de créer en 1955 le Beaux Arts Trio avec le violoniste Daniel Guilet et le violoncelliste Bernard Greenhouse. Une belle aventure menée en parallèle de son activité de professeur de l’université d’Indiana. Après l'arrêt du trio Beaux Arts en 2008, Menahem Pressler n'a pas pas cessé de jouer pour autant. Malgré une opération suite à une rupture d'anévrisme, il a commencé à enregistrer une série d'albums consacrés à l'intégrale des Sonates de Mozart (17 au total). Le premier opus est sorti en mars 2015. On attend la suite avec impatience. ****       ebay5073 folder 188