Jorge Bolet—Classical Pianist
Birth
Jorge Bolet was born in Havana, Cuba on November 15, 1914, and began serious study of the piano at age five under the direction of his sister Maria.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/IPAM/IPAMbolet.html
Jorge Bolet was born on November 15th, 1914, in Havana, Cuba.
http://soundfountain.org/rem/rembolet.html
Fame
Jorge Bolet came to prominence in 1974 with a stupendous recital at Carnegie Hall, which set a seal on his reputation.
http://bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Bolet-Jorge.htm
His third prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw was a highlight in his career and at the same time the beginning of a series of further prizes at competitions: in 1988 – first award and prize for the best performance of a piece by Chopin at the Second International Competition at Palm Beach, first prize at the Tenth International Rina Sala Gallo Competition in Mons and second prize at the International Competition GPA in Dublin, in 1989 – gold medal and third prize at the sixth International Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel-Aviv, in 1992 – special Jorge Bolet prize at the International Competition of the Walter Naumburg Foundations in New York and second prize at the International Esther Honens Competition in Calgary.
http://free.art.pl/hofmann/english/achievements/jablonski.html
Work
Cuban-born pianist Jorge Bolet was one of the great exponents of Romantic keyboard literature, reviving works by forgotten masters and specializing, above all, the music of Liszt.
http://www.avaxhome.ru/music/liszt_etudes.html
He played his first public recital at age nine and appeared as soloist with the Havana Sinfonica at age ten. ... This was followed by his New York recital debut at Town Hall in 1937 as winner of the Naumburg Award. He returned to Town Hall in 1940 as the first and only winner of the Josef Hofmann Award given by the Curtis Institute. At the outbreak of World War II, Bolet joined the Cuban army and as a lieutenant served at the Cuban Embassy in Washington under regime of President Batista. After the Batista government fell, Bolet joined the United States Army and became an American citizen. While stationed in Tokyo with the Army of Occupation, Bolet conducted the Japanese pr?iere of "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan, and made several appearances as soloist with the Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/IPAM/IPAMbolet.html
Jorge Bolet (November 15, 1914–October 16, 1990) was a pianist and conductor. Bolet was born in Havana in Cuba and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he himself taught from 1939 to 1942. His teachers included Leopold Godowsky, David Saperton, Moriz Rosenthal and Fritz Reiner. In 1942 Bolet joined the US Army and was sent to Japan. While there, he conducted the Japanese premiere of The Mikado. ... Bolet is particularly well remembered for his performances and recordings of large-scale Romantic music, particularly works by Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin. He also specialised in piano transcriptions and unusual repertoire, including the fiendishly difficult works of Godowsky, many of which Bolet had studied with the composer himself.
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Jorge Bolet is here presented playing four different makes of pianos (Baldwin, Steinway, Bechstein, and Hamburg Steinway) in varying states of regulation and tuning.
http://www.marstonrecords.com/bolet/bolet_liner.htm
Jorge Bolet while a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, Nadia Boulanger, Gaby Casadesus, Martin Canin and Marion Zarzeczna.
http://www.rider.edu/887_3933.htm
Jorge Bolet↗'s recording (Transcendental Etudes, 1999, Ensayo) (amazon.com↗) and Claudio Arrau↗'s renderings (Liszt: The Complete Etudes, Philips, 1997) (amazon.com↗) Jorge Bolet is precise with clarity. I love it.
http://www.xahlee.org/ClassicalMusic_dir/naxos_liszt.html
