阿比·西蒙 Abbey Simon

简介Biography

阿贝·西蒙（Abbey Simon，1922 -2019 ），美国著名钢琴家，于1922年1月8日出生于纽约，在布朗克斯区长大，父母是牙医所罗门·西蒙（Solomon Simon）和维拉·谢尔丁（Vera Sheldin）。

经历

3岁时，他可以完美地在钢琴上弹奏出他在收音机中听到的任何音乐。他从5岁开始上正式课。

他在2014年接受曾任教多年的休斯敦大学的校刊《每日美洲狮》采访时说：“我是一个非常幸运的孩子，谁会在三岁时知道自己未来会怎样呢？而我从小就都知道将成为钢琴家。”
10岁时，他获得费城柯蒂斯音乐学院奖学金。次年他和母亲一起搬到费城，并开始随霍夫曼学习。

西蒙于1940年获得沃尔特·纳姆伯格基金会（Walter W. Naumburg Foundation）比赛的冠军，这是一项享有声望的比赛，不久之后他在在市政厅举行了首次独奏会。在第二次世界大战中他曾一度服役，之后恢复职业生涯在全国巡回演出。在40年代的大部分时间里，他每年都会在卡内基音乐厅举办独奏音乐会。

1949年，西蒙首次欧洲巡回演出取得成功后，他旅居欧洲十多年，在瑞士呆了很长一段时间。罗伯特·谢尔曼（Robert Sherman）1965年在《泰晤士报》上写道：“具有这种技术水平、气质和音乐敏感性的艺术家应当经常举办音乐会。只可惜他在美国登台的机会太少。”
西蒙长期在欧洲居住，这里音乐氛围似乎对不完美更为包容，对音乐精神的传达却更为重视。这种氛围给他提供了成长的机会。

1960年，他在纽约接受采访时对《泰晤士报》表示：“离开美国让我有机会实现自我思考，发展了自己的个性，有机会发现自己，甚至能有机会给出错误的演奏！我是说我有试错的机会，能以某种特别方式演奏作品看看是否可行，然后发现行不通，必须以其他方式才行。而在美国那将是一场灾难，人们简直无法获得机会。”

西蒙先生曾在印第安纳大学和茱莉亚音乐学院任教多年，在休斯敦和日内瓦都有家。他的妻子迪娜莱文森（Dina Levinson）于2014年去世。除儿子外，他还有两个孙子。
他说：“我一生都很忙...许多杰出钢琴家都已经离去，只有我还活着。”

摘自：https://www.sin80.com/artist/abbey-simon

Abbey Simon (born January 8, 1922) is an American concert pianist, teacher, and recording artist. He was a pupil of Josef Hofmann at the Curtis Institute of Music and a winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition in 1940. He has been called a "supervirtuoso" by The New York Times.

Simon began lessons with David Saperton at the age of five. At the age of eight, Simon was accepted by Josef Hofmann as a scholarship student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he trained with classmates Jorge Bolet and Sidney Foster. Simon also took lessons from Leopold Godowsky[1] and Harold Bauer. Shortly after graduation, he debuted at the Town Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City. He was the winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition in 1940.

Simon has performed to critical acclaim. The critic Harold C. Schonberg of the New York Times once hailed Simon as a "supervirtuoso." Boston Globe critic Richard Dyer wrote, "Simon's recital offered more than a glimpse into the fabled golden age of piano playing... His virtuosity is marked not only by speed, power, lightness and accuracy but also by intricate interplay of voices and lambent colors."

Simon has toured in Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Trenton Symphony Orchestra.

Simon has given masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and the Geneva Conservatory. He has served on the faculties of Indiana University, Manhattan School of Music, Hunter College, and the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. His students include pianists Frederic Chiu, Karen Shaw, John Kamitsuka, Erika Nickrenz, Richard Dowling, Roger Wright, Andrew Cooperstock, David Korevaar, Terence Yung and Martha Argerich.

In addition to performing, teaching, and recording as a musical artist, Abbey Simon has served jury member of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the Geneva International Music Competition, the Leeds International Piano Competition, the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, the Sydney International Piano Competition, and the South Africa International Piano Competition.

Simon currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland and Houston, Texas where he is currently Distinguished Cullen Professor of Piano at the Moores School of Music.

Abbey Simon is a Yamaha Artist.

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