Alan Gampel

Alan Gampel's recent performances have included engagements with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Irish National Symphony, and Czech Chamber Orchestra. In the past few years he has appeared in recital at London's Wigmore Hall, in Paris at the Theatre du Chatelet, Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Auditorium du Louvre, and Musee d'Orsay, in Rome at the Teatro Ghione, and in the United States at the Kennedy Center, Chicago's Ravinia Festival, and New York's Frick Collection Series and Mostly Mozart Festival.

Born into an artistic family that includes the legendary harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, Alan Gampel made his debut playing Beethoven variations at the age of seven at the Hollywood Bowl. He was honored with the Presidential Scholars Award at the White House at age sixteen and then went on to graduate from Stanford University at age nineteen. In 1995, Alan Gampel was awarded the coveted Chopin Prize at the Artur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel. He received a top prize at the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York and was unanimously awarded the Special Mozart Bicentenary Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition in 1991.

In 1999, Alan Gampel gave an extensive international recital tour celebrating Chopin's 150th anniversary. He also incorporated numerous informal appearances at public schools in conjunction with this tour. Over the years, Alan Gampel's passion for introducing classical music to young people and his extraordinary ability to connect with and excite children have led him to make these voluntary children's concerts a staple of his regular concert tours.

Reviews

"An exciting Richterish ferocity"

The Irish Times, 1991
 

"The dexterity of a wizard and his tone quality that of velvet."

The Post and Courier, 1993
 

"Masterly reading. Breathtaking performance. Dazzling."

Musical Opinion (U.K.), 1993
 

"Velvety sound and virtuoso assurance."

New York Times, 1993
 

"Forget mere words. They fall short, Next time hear Gampel play Chopin."

Grand Rapids Press, 1993
 

"Lyricism - special even by Chopin's standards."

New York Times, 1995
 

"Gampel displayed his most sensitive and poetic nature and an intimate understanding of his own Polish tradition."

Tachonic Press, 1996
 

"Through his hands notes lift off the board and transmute to distillations of romantic reverie, revolutionary passion and tenderness."

Woodstock Times, 1997
 

"Alan Gampel, a gifted pianist with a debonair command of the idiom (Bernstein: 'Age of Anxiety'), dispatched the solo part as well as it can be played."

Chicago Tribune, 1998
 

"Alan Gampel's recital was a polished gem that brought new luster to Chopin's music."

The Desert Sun, 1999

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