Alan Feinberg

Alan Feinberg (b. New York City) is an American classical pianist. He has considerable experience with contemporary classical music and has premiered over 300 works among them Mel Powell's Pulitzer Prize winning Duplicates, as well as works by such composers as John Adams (composer), Milton Babbitt, John Harbison, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen. He performed the world premiere of the recently-discovered "Emerson" Piano Concerto by Charles Ives, with Christoph von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra, and subsequently recorded the work. He is also the first pianist to have been invited by the Union of Soviet Composers to represent American contemporary music, an invitation which resulted in performances in both Moscow and Leningrad.

He has recorded many CD's including four discs for the Decca/Argo Discover America series focusing on repertory of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a Decca CD of vocal works of Charles Ives with soprano Susan Narucki. Other recordings can be found on New World Records, CRI, Harmonia Mundi, Bridge, New Albion and Naxos. In 1997, Alan Feinberg's received his third Grammy Award nomination for his recording of Morton Feldman's Palais di Mari and Charles Wuorinen's Capriccio, Bagatelle and Third Sonata. Other recordings include the Grammy-nominated Babbitt Piano Concerto (New World Records), Morton Feldman's Piano and Orchestra with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, and the Amy Beach Piano Concerto with the Nashville Symphony (Naxos). He has received five Grammy nominations throughout his career.

He holds a bachelor's and master's degrees from the Juilliard School and did doctoral work at the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Robert Helps. He is Visiting Professor at the Juilliard School.