“GABRIEL CHODOS – GREAT PIANIST.  This recital was masterful and gripping from beginning to end.  He belongs among the great interpreters and best pianists of this day.”

–De Tijd, Amsterdam

 

“Gabriel Chodos is an artistic personality combining true musicality, great piano playing, and a mighty capacity for personal and poetic expression.”

–Ha’aretz, Tel Aviv

 

“A GLIMPSE OF THE ULTIMATE … In the first movement of the Schubert B-flat Sonata the pianist risked everything.  No one can play this music at such a slow tempo, you would think – and, crucially, “hold” it, keep it from fragmenting – unless he is Schnabel or Richter.  Chodos did.

–Boston Globe

 

“ … Pianists like Schnabel, Edwin Fischer, and Myra Hess, the dress circle to which this artist belongs.”

–Clavier

 

GABRIEL CHODOS is Emeritus Professor of Piano at the New England Conservatory of Music.  He was Chairman of the Piano Department at the New England Conservatory for 25 years, and he was also a member of the artist faculty of the Aspen Music Festival for many years.  His students have included the renowned Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei and Peter Sykes, who is a member of the faculty of the Juilliard School.

 

Mr. Chodos has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has been soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Holland, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Aspen Chamber Symphony.  A winner of the Concert Artist Guild competition in New York, Mr. Chodos also received a Fulbright Scholarship, Martha Baird Rockefeller grants, and a Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Chodos has performed at the 92nd Street Y, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Symphony Hall, and the Library of Congress.  Mr. Chodos’s performances of works by Schubert, Chopin and Brahms have been broadcast nationwide by National Public Radio.  He has recorded for Fleur de Son, Victor/Japan, CRI, Orion, and Centaur.

 

Mr. Chodos has given master classes throughout the world, including the Guildhall School of Music in London, the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig, the Estonia Music Academy in Tallinn, the Central Conservatory in Beijing, the Toho Gakuen School of Music, the Kunitachi School of Music in Tokyo, Seoul National University, Yale University, Indiana University, the Aspen, Chautauqua and Atlantic Festivals, the Aldwell Center at the Jerusalem Academy, and the Tel-Hai master classes in Israel.

 

Mr. Chodos’s principal teacher was Aube Tzerko, a student of Artur Schnabel. His undergraduate studies at the University of California at Los Angeles were in Philosophy, and he holds a Master’s degree in Music from UCLA and a Diploma in Piano from the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna.