Degrees:

Bio:

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

Notable Performances

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.