Jacques Abram

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* Jacques Abram, born August 6, 1915 – October 5, 1998, Jack Gregory Abram, an American classical pianist, died in Tampa, Florida, and Abram began improvising at age 3 and appeared in public at age 6. * As a child, he worked with Ima Hogg and Ruth Burr of Houston. * At the behest of Ignace Jan Paderewski and Josef Hofmann, who had seen Abram in concert, his parents enrolled him in the Curtis Institute, where he studied with David Saperton. Abram began his studies at Juilliard School, where he continued his studies with Ernest Hutcheson at age 13. Arthur Shattuck, a well-known pianist and Leschetizky pupil, also mentored Abram for many years. In 1937, the National Federation of Music Clubs awarded Abram its Schubert Memorial Award. * As a result of winning these awards, Abram appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, performing the MacDowell D minor concerto. Abram was stationed in San Antonio, Texas, with a special services unit during World War II. * He was the artist in residence at Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha, Oklahoma, where he was numbered among his devoted students Margaret McConnell, Larry Graham, Karen Reynolds, and Leon Whitesell. * He began teaching at the University of South Florida in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Royal Conservatory of Music in 1960, and in 1963, he moved to Tampa, Florida, where he first appeared in Benjamin Britten's piano recitalo. * In 1949, he attended the work's premiere in New York under Leopold Stokowski's baton, and under Herbert Menges' leadership, he performed soloist in the work's first recording. *EMI has reissued the album on compact disc. * Abram gave Arthur Benjamin's 1949 Concerto quasi una Fantasia, both in English and American terms; in Benjamin's words, "Jacques Abram, the American pianist, gave it its first English appearance at the Cheltenham Festival in 1952 and the first American performance in San Antonio in 1953. "He married Christine Dorsey in 1955 and was the father of Jonathan, Gregory, and Nell Abram."

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