Events
Thursday April 14, 2022
12:00-1:00 pm
NHB 5th floor atrium
or via Zoom
A special concert to commemorate the generous donation of the Baldwin piano to the Department of Neuroscience
featuring
Anton Nel, piano
Winner of the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall, pianist Anton Nel tours internationally as recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. He holds the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair at the University of Texas at Austin where he heads the Division of Keyboard Studies; he is currently also a Visiting Professor at the Manhattan School of Music and annually presents masterclasses at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto. During the summers he is on the artist-faculties at the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Orford Music Academy in Quebec and at the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival. Mr. Nel frequently performs as harpsichordist and fortepianist. His recordings include solo and chamber music (including the complete Beethoven Piano and Cello Sonatas and Variations, and the Brahms Sonatas with Bion Tsang), and works for piano and orchestra by Franck, Faure, Saint-Saens and Edward Burlingame Hill. Born in Johannesburg, Mr. Nel is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, where he studied with Adolph Hallis, and the University of Cincinnati where he worked with Bela Siki and Frank Weinstock.
About the piano:
The Baldwin R piano is a gift from Mr. Joseph R. Mann on behalf of his late parents, Dr. Rudolph (Rudy) Keimowitz and Carol Mann-Keimowitz. Carol completed her PhD in musicology and went on to teach music at University of Wisconsin and eventually became the executive director of the La Crosse Symphony orchestra. In La Crosse, she met and married Rudy with whom she shared a lifelong passion for music and the arts. Rudy performed in plays while in medical school at the University of Vermont and sang in local performances within the La Crosse community. During his medical career as a hematologist/oncologist at Gunderson clinic in La Crosse Wisconsin, Rudy was an avid researcher. Always trying to find new and better ways to serve his patients, he undertook a sabbatical at Vanderbilt University which launched a multi-year study on the application of transdermal aspirin for cardiovascular therapy. Even after retiring, and while fighting a personal battle with carcinoma, Rudy took a position at university of Minnesota medical center in Minneapolis and helped form the first palliative care practice within the system. Rudy worked until he was almost 80 years old and through two major surgeries at Mayo Clinic for his cancer.
Mr. Mann believes his parents would love nothing more than to see this beautiful instrument used for the research and medical benefit of others.
