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Morton
Estrin
Adjunct Star Professor of Music
Room 211 Emily Lowe Hall
Office:
(516) 463-5493
Fax: (516) 463-6393
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Education
Master in Performance
Juilliard: Rosina Lhevinne
Bachelors in Education
New York University
Piano Studies
Vera Maurina-Press
Composition Studies
Meyer Kupferman
Professional Positions
Hofstra University
Piano Instruction, Introduction to Music, Music Appreciation, Eartraining,
Piano Literature
First performance of the complete set
of Twelve Etudes, Opus Eight by Alexander Scriabian for Connoisseur
Society which was awarded Best of the Year recognition
by the New York Times and High Fidelity Magazine.
Suite in D minor, Opus 91 by
Joachim Raff.
Six Etudes Opus 23 by Anton
Rubinstein.
Works by American composer Meyer Kuperman
including hi Sonata on Jazz Elements, Little Sonata, and Variations,
all of which were composed especially for Porfessor Estrin and given
their first performances by him.
Known for his interpretations of Romatic
music, Estrin has presented on records, tapes and Compact Discs well
over 100 works by many composers, including Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninoff.
Honors and Memberships
Pi Kappa Lambda
American Federation of Musicians
College Music Society
American Assocation of University Professors
Bohemian Club of New York
Biographical Innformation
Morton Estrin was born in Burlington,
Vermont where he received his earliest training at the Mt. St. Mary's
Academy. He was widely known from the age of nine as a performer on
stage and radio. From the age of fourteen he resided in Brooklyn, New
York and studied first with Yetta Posnak-Wendt and later with Vera Maurina-Press,
who became his principal teacher. Mme. Press instilled in him the Russian
tradition, herself having studied at the Imperial Conservatory at Moscow
under Busoni, Friedman and Sutter.
Professor Estrin made his official
debut in New York in 1949 at Town Hall launching his career. This included
performances throughout the United States and Europe and many recitals
and appeatances with orchestras in New York at all the major concert
halls including : Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Alice
Tully at Lincoln Center. In 1985, a historic performance at Alice Tull
Hall of the complete Twenty-four Preludes by Sergei Rachmaninoff
was been presented at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Professor Estrin also gives recitals annually at Hofstra for the benefit
of the Music Department Scholarship Fund. He was also soloist with the
Hofstra Symphony in the fall of 1998, performing the Rachmaninoff Concerto
no. 2 in C minor
Professor Estrin has always maintained a dual
career as both performer and teacher, and, as the latter, numbers hundreds
of students whom he has taught. Among them are many who have made successful
careers of their own, including John Mauceri, symphony conductor; Seth
Carlin, Artist-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis; and
John Strauss, chairman of the Music Department at Luther College in Decorah,
Iowa. His students also comprise many teachers in school systems throughout
the United States, and, perhaps best known of all, Billy Joel and Deborah
Gibson, whose early training they owe to Morton Estrin.
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