Soheil Nasseri
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Soheil Nasseri is an Iranian-American recital pianist based in New York and Berlin. He has performed at Carnegie Hall
, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Berliner Philharmonie
, among other venues. He has premiered over 2 dozen works by contemporary composers since 2001. Also notably, he performed the world premiere of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
's Sonata No. 0 (1917) at Carnegie Hall in 2002, and made the first commercial recording thereof. In the past seven years, he has performed twenty-eight of Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas at various major venues to fulfill his pledge to perform all of Beethoven's piano works (including chamber music and lieder) before his 250th birthday in 2020.
Born to Persian parents in Santa Monica, California, Soheil Nasseri began studying the piano at the age of five and at the age of twenty moved to New York to study with Karl Ulrich Schnabel (1909–2001). Following the death of Mr. Schnabel, Mr. Nasseri became a protégé of Jerome Lowenthal and Claude Frank. Other significant teachers include Irina Edelman, Anna Balakerskaia, Clinton Adams, Eva Pierrou, and Ann Schein.
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Berliner Philharmonie
Berliner Philharmonie
The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the building is acclaimed for both its acoustics and its architecture....
, among other venues. He has premiered over 2 dozen works by contemporary composers since 2001. Also notably, he performed the world premiere of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, music critic, pianist, and writer.-Biography:...
's Sonata No. 0 (1917) at Carnegie Hall in 2002, and made the first commercial recording thereof. In the past seven years, he has performed twenty-eight of Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas at various major venues to fulfill his pledge to perform all of Beethoven's piano works (including chamber music and lieder) before his 250th birthday in 2020.
Born to Persian parents in Santa Monica, California, Soheil Nasseri began studying the piano at the age of five and at the age of twenty moved to New York to study with Karl Ulrich Schnabel (1909–2001). Following the death of Mr. Schnabel, Mr. Nasseri became a protégé of Jerome Lowenthal and Claude Frank. Other significant teachers include Irina Edelman, Anna Balakerskaia, Clinton Adams, Eva Pierrou, and Ann Schein.
External links
- http://www.soheilnasseri.com/
- http://www.hughkaylor.com/ (Management)