Peter Serkin
Peter Serkin (1947-2020) was an American pianist, born in New York, the son of pianist Rudolf Serkin. He studied at the Curtis Institute with his father, Mieczysław Horszowski and Lee Luvisi. In 1973 he co-founded the chamber group Tashi with Ida Kavafian, Fred Sherry and Richard Stoltzman. His repertoire ran from Bach to new works by Toru Takemitsu and Peter Lieberson, and he recorded late Beethoven sonatas on fortepiano.
Piano Works
Pianist Peter Serkin is renowned for his performances and recordings of contemporary music. He has worked closely with composers such as Olivier Messiaen, Toru Takemitsu, Luciano Berio, and Peter Lieberson; he also was a founding member of the chambe…
Piano Concerto
The Piano Concerto was Peter Lieberson's first orchestral work and was, from the outset, conceived with Peter Serkin in mind as the soloist. He wrote it after a long period of immersion in the study of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. Throughout what Lieb…
Mozart / Reger / Busoni: Music for Two Pianos
András Schiff and Peter Serkin, two pianos, in Mozart's Fugue K. 426 and Sonata K. 448, Reger's Beethoven Variations Op. 86 and Busoni's Fantasia contrappuntistica. Recorded November 1997 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Two CDs…