Haydn: Variations in F Minor - Gilbert Kalish, 1974 - Nonesuch H-71328

Gilbert Kalish (born July 2, 1935) is an American pianist and leading Professor and Head of Performance Activities at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was born in New York and studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabelle Vengerova. He was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a pioneering new music group that flourished during the 1960s and ’70s. He was a pianist of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players from 1969 to 1998. He is noted for his partnerships with other artists, particularly his thirty-year collaboration with mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani, but also including cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, and soprano Dawn Upshaw.