Jay Gottlieb
Jay Gottlieb is a musician who has been hailed by the New York Times for his "adventurous brilliance"; it also described his playing as "beautifully colored and technically formidable". Pierre Boulez has said of him: "extremely interesting, he gives evidence of a sure originality and the best qualities in the domain of execution."
The Career
Born in New York, Gottlieb studied at the High School of Performing Arts, Juilliard School and at Harvard University, and in France with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, Yvonne Loriod, Robert Casadesus, and in Germany with Aloys Kontarsky.
He won the Master Award at the Tanglewood Festival and since has appeared in major international music festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron International Piano Festival , International Keyboard Festival in New York ,Messiaen Festival, Autumn Festival in Paris, Autumn Festival in Warsaw, Biennale in Venice, Musica in Strasbourg, Almeida Festival in London, Extasis in Geneva, Amplitudes Festival in Copenhagen, etc., concertizing and giving lecture-concerts and master classes throughout the world.
Institutions such as the Juilliard School, Indiana University in Bloomington, Paris Conservatory, Ecole Normale and Schola Cantorum in Paris,American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, Centre Acanthes of the Avignon Festival regularly invite him as a pedagogue. He is regularly invited to be a jury member for international piano competitions, and is Chairman of the Jury for the International Contemporary Piano Competition for Youth in Fribourg, Switzerland. In 2006, he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation, for which he is a regular performer and speaker.
He has appeared as soloist with many orchestras and ensembles including the Boston Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Percussions de Strasbourg, London Sinfonietta, the Group for Contemporary Music in New York, National Symphony of China, Polish National Radio Orchestra, Orchestra della R.A.I, Hessicher Rundfunk Orchestra, etc., working with conductors Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Kent Nagano, Michael Tilson Thomas, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller, Robert Craft,John Nelson, Ronald Zollman...
Many composers have written works for him: Magnus Lindberg, Franco Donatoni, Sylvano Bussotti, Maurice Ohana, Ralph Shapey, Luis de Pablo, Gilbert Amy, Betsy Jolas, Bruno Mantovani,Régis Campo, Oscar Strasnoy,Yan Maresz, Barbara Kolb, Stuart MacRae, Lukas Ligeti, Alessandro Solbiati, Antonio Chagas Rosa...
Jay Gottlieb has been selected to represent the USA worldwide through the Arts America Program of the USIA, a division of the State Department. His name is included in "The World Who's Who of Musicians", "Who's Who in American Music", "American Keyboard Artists" and "Outstanding Young Men of America".
Awards
Laureat of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation Grant, National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize, French Government Grant, First Prize in the International Improvisation Competition in Lyons, the Festival Estival de France Prize, Master Award for Excellence in Performance at the Berkshire Music Festival, Tanglewood. His recordings of piano music by John Adams, Philip Glass, John Cage and Charles Ives were awarded the "Choc" in Le Monde de la Musique in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001 respectively, while in January 2001 his John Cage recording won a "Diapason d'Or". He was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque by the French Recording Academy in 1995, 2002, 2004 and 2005.
Publications
A comprehensive series of articles on twentieth-century piano music for Piano magazine Co-author of "Ten Years With the Piano of the Twentieth Century", published in Paris by the Cité de la Musique .
Film Soundracks
"Sonate" by George Allez and "La Discrète" by Christian Vincent
Discography
John Adams--China Gates/Phrygian Gates (Pianovox)
John Cage--Music for Non-Prepared Piano (Ogam)
Philip Glass--Piano Music (Ogam)
Charles Ives--Piano Music (Pianovox)
Maurice Ohana--Trois Contes de l'Honorable Fleur (Philips)
Maurice Ohana--Lys de Madrigaux (Erato)
Maurice Ohana--Avoaha et Lys de Madrigaux (Opus 111)
Jay and Gordon Gottlieb--Piano et Percussions (Auvidis)
Bande sonore du film "La Discrète" (Milan CD)
Barbara Kolb--Appello (CRI)
Michèle Reverdy--Figure (Harmonia Mundi)
Olivier Messiaen--Harawi (ADDA-Universal)
Olivier Messiaen--The Complete Songs (ALM)
Vinko Globokar--Les Emigrés (Harmonia Mundi)
Allain Gaussin--Arcane (Salabert Actuels/Harmonia Mundi)
Alessandro Solbiati--Piano Sonata (Stradivarius)
Bruno Mantovani--Jazz Connotation & D'Un Rêve Parti (Aeon)
Jay Gottlieb Récital: “Continents” with R.Campo, B.Delbecq, F.Lagnau, L.Ligeti, C.Koechlin, F.Poulenc, D.Lang (Signature/Radio-France)
Régis Campo--Concerto pour piano et orchestre (Aeon)
Giacinto Scelsi--Sonata for Violin and Piano (Solstice)
Berio, Ohana, Ravel, Lorca, Mompou (ALM)