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Around the QuadsEmanuel Ax ’70 To Receive Hamilton MedalEach fall, the Columbia College Alumni Association presents the Alexander Hamilton Medal to an alumnus or faculty member for distinguished service and accomplishment in any field of endeavor. On Monday, November 17, Emanuel Ax ’70, an esteemed pianist, will be honored at a black-tie dinner in the Low Library Rotunda.
Renowned for his poetic temperament and unsurpassed virtuosity, Ax also is known for the exceptional breadth of his performing activities. Each season, his distinguished career has included appearances with major symphony orchestras worldwide, recitals in celebrated concert halls, a variety of chamber music collaborations, the commissioning and performance of new music and additions to his acclaimed discography on Sony Classical. Born in Lvov, Poland, Ax began studying piano at 6, and moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. His studies at The Juilliard School were greatly supported by the sponsorship of the Epstein Scholarship Program of the Boys Clubs of America, and he subsequently won the Young Concert Artists Award. He majored in French at the College. Ax captured public attention in 1974 when, at 25, he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. His releases during the past few years have included a two-piano program of works by Rachmaninoff, period-instrument performances of Chopin’s complete works for piano and orchestra, and the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2. Other notable recordings are a Grammy-award winning album of Haydn Piano Sonatas, the two Liszt concertos paired with the Schoenberg Concerto, three solo Brahms albums, an album of tangos and a recording of John Adams’s Century Rolls. Devoted to chamber music literature, Ax regularly works with Young Uck Kim, Cho-Liang Lin, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Serkin and Jaime Laredo, and he was a frequent collaborator with the late Isaac Stern. He has made a series of acclaimed recordings with Ma, and as a duo, they have won three Grammy awards. Ax lives in New York City with his wife, pianist Yoko Nozaki. They have two grown children, Joseph and Sarah. L.P.
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