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Born: October 12, 1929 - Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: June 30, 2014 - Loveland, Colorado, USA |
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The American pianist and music poedagogue, Howard Karp, received his early musical training in his native Chicago with Isador Buchhalter and Felix Borowski. He then studied with Jack Radunsky at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Rosina Lhevinne at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Further study took him to Vienna for work at the Akademie für Musik as a Fulbright scholar, and to Positano for L.v. Beethoven studies with Wilhelm Kempff.
Returning to the USA, Howard Karp taught at the University of Kentucky before securing a full professorship at the highly regarded Music School of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a teaching career of more than 45 years at the Universities of Kentucky, Illinois and Wisconsin-Madison (1972-2000), he became Emeritus Professor of Music at the latter institution in 2000. A master teacher, he has former students on the faculties of numerous colleges and universities throughout North America and Asia.
As a performer, Howard Karp has won acclaim for solo and chamber music recitals throughout USA and Europe. Concerto partners have included the Minnesota Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Hague Philharmonic Orchestra.
His recording with the Pro Arte String Quartet of the piano quintets of Ernest Bloch (Laurel Records) received high critical praise. Other recordings of note include a 2-CD set of solo concert recordings; a 4-CD set of concert recordings of music for two pianos and piano four-hands with Frances Karp; Late Romantic Music for Cello and Piano with Parry Karp (all, University of Wisconsin Press); a 6- CD set of solo concert performances (Albany Records, May 2014); and, with the Karp Trio, the piano trios of Joel Hoffman (Albany Records). |
