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Victor Steinhardt
(541) 346-3781
victors@uoregon.edu
Victor Steinhardt is professor emeritus of
piano at the University of Oregon, where he
has been on the faculty since 1968. In 1972-73,
he taught at the University of Washington.
Steinhardt received the B.Mus. degree in piano
from Mount St. Mary's College in 1964 and the
M.A. degree in composition from UCLA in 1967.
He studied piano with Aube Tzerko and Rosina
Lhevinne and composition with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco,
Henri Lazarof, and Roy Harris.
Steinhardt has performed widely with a large
repertoire of concertos, solos, and chamber
music. He has been a featured artist at the
San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival in California,
the Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho, the
Chamber Music Northwest Series in Portland,
Bargemusic chamber series in New York, the
Mohawk Trail Concerts in Massachusetts, the
Grand Teton Music Festival and the Oregon Bach
Festival.
He has collaborated with cellist Leonard Rose,
violinists Joseph Genualdi, Stephanie Chase,
Pamela Frank and Arnold Steinhardt, flutist
Ransom Wilson, clarinetist David Shifrin, and
mezzo-soprano Milagro Vargas among others.
Steinhardt has recorded Songs of Bartok
and Kodaly with soprano Elizabeth Suderburg
on the Vox Turnabout label, Scenes from
Adolescence for flute, violin, clarinet,
cello, and piano by David Schiff on the Delos
label, and An American Sampler with
trombonist Stuart Dempster and ragtime piano
solos (Olympic Records), and music of Robert
Fuchs, with violinist/violist Arnold Steinhardt
(Biddulph).
Steinhardt has received broad recognition
for his own compositions, including Sonata
Boogie for violin and piano, Running
Blue for clarinet, violin, and piano, and
Ein Heldenboogie, a piano solo. In 1997,
the Oregon Arts Commission awarded him a fellowship
grant to aid in the production of a new CD
of his compositions, entitled "Sonata
Boogie" which is issued by TownHall
Records (THCD-52; phone orders: 1-800-327-4212).
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