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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

Jewish pianists

During the pandemic, Navah Perlman Frost pivoted from being a professional musician to running her own cake business. And yes, those are cupcakes -- not flowers. (Courtesy photos/Design by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)
December 20, 2021, 4:23 am
Switching keys after COVID, Jewish pianist in NYC designs cakes that strike a chord
Navah Perlman Frost’s ‘extraordinary’ buttercream creations have to be seen to be believed, and have made her an instant hit in the Big Apple’s competitive baking scene
By Rachel Ringler
Israeli-American pianist Yael Weiss plays the piano during an AFP interview at The Mansion at Strathmore on January 23, 2019, in North Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by OLIVIA HAMPTON / AFP)
February 5, 2019, 6:26 am
Israeli-American pianist premieres Beethoven-inspired works from conflict zones
Yael Weiss commissions modern takes on sonatas ahead of composer’s 250th birthday, written by 32 musicians, including from Syria and Iran
By Olivia Hampton
Nelly Ben-Or sitting by one of her two pianos in her London home, December 13, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
January 5, 2019, 5:30 am
Nelly Ben-Or risked all to play the piano. It helped her survive the Holocaust
International concert pianist releases her acclaimed autobiography ‘Ashes to Light,’ a story of betrayal, hunger and self-sacrifice, and the will to continue an artistic life
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Russian-Jewish pianist Mikhail Klein (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 6, 2017, 5:35 pm
Russian-Jewish pianist dies during performance
Mikhail Klein, who worked for Irkutsk Philharmonic Orchestra for 45 years, collapses onstage while playing his own piece
By JTA
Evgeny Kissin with Russian conductor Dmitry Kitayenko and piano mentor Anna Kantor at the rehearsal of his debut with two Chopin concerti in Moscow. (Courtesy)
July 29, 2017, 6:59 am
Noteworthy piano virtuoso trumpets his Jewish heritage
World-renowned pianist Evgeny Kissin holds three passports, but the one that defines him has a menorah on it
By Jenni Frazer
Mona Golabek reincarnates her mother, Lisa Jura, in her 90-minute one-woman show, 'The Pianist of Willesden Lane,' which recounts the true story of her mother’s adolescent experience during World War II. (courtesy)
January 20, 2016, 5:50 pm
This Holocaust survivor’s tale has music at its heart and soul
A London homecoming for Mona Golabek’s ‘The Pianist of Willesden Lane,’ the story of the concert pianist’s mother, who was saved by the Kindertransport at age 14
By Anne Joseph
Andreja Preger, a noted concert pianist and Jewish communal activist who survived the Holocaust as part of Yugoslavia’s anti-Nazi partisans, in 2011. (YouTube screenshot)
December 21, 2015, 3:33 am
Andreja Preger, Jewish anti-Nazi partisan, dies at 104
A noted concert pianist, the communal leader was ‘always torn between Jewish public work and music’
By JTA
Russian-German pianist Igor Levit (Felix Broede)
October 21, 2015, 12:51 am
Variation is the spice of life for young ‘pianist of the century’
As Igor Levit’s third album hits the shelves ahead of his world tour, he speaks about finding a personal path to great composers’ well-known masterpieces
By Anne Joseph
Norbert Stern in Brussels in about 1940. (Courtesy Roger Peltzman/JTA)
October 18, 2014, 4:45 pm
Echoes of prodigy’s music strike chord with lost family
Pianist nephew records and dedicates CD in memory of his musician uncle killed in the Holocaust
By Hillel Kuttler
Evgeny Kissin in concert in 2010 (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)
From the WebFebruary 22, 2014, 9:24 am
Kissin offers Jewish composers, Yiddish poets in striking concert departure
The Washington Post: World’s leading pianist Evgeny Kissin, a Russian Jew who’s normally tight-lipped, is ‘surprisingly effusive’ when it comes to his people and Israel
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