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Concert Artist/Fidelio Recordings
Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 7EG, England
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Concert Artist/Fidelio Recordings Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 7EG, England
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Featured Artists Ozan Marsh
Ozan Marsh coupled an outstanding performing career with an equally distinguished academic one. He served on the faculties of such major institutions as The Indiana University, Manhattan School of Music, Butler University, St.Lawrence University, University of Arizona and the Chautauqua Institution. He participated in judging various international piano competitions including the Van Cliburn, the Franz Liszt, the National Federation of Music Clubs and many others. He was also the President of the Pianist’s Foundation of America, an organisation devoted to furthering of the careers of promising young pianists and gave a great deal of his time to that much needed project. Ozan
Marsh was one of the leading champions and interpreters of the music of Dimitri
Kabalevsky. The composer’s Second Piano Concerto in G minor was always a
particular favourite with Ozan Marsh and he never tired of appearing as soloist
in the work. Witness to this was a remarkable tour with the Boston Pops, under
their conductor Arthur Fiedler, in which Ozan Marsh gave 61 performances of the
concerto in 59 days! Over a number of years Kabalevsky sent the pianist
‘minor’ revisions to the score. The accumulation of these revisions
ultimately resulted in a completely revised version of the concerto and the new
score was utilised when Ozan Marsh made the premičre recording with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra which was released on the Concert Artist label. A
worldwide touring artist, in 1980, Ozan Marsh made a major concert tour of the
Soviet Union. The following year he toured again in Europe, this time playing in
Poland, West and East Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and France. In 1982 he toured
Taiwan before spending a month touring in the Peoples Republic of China. In 1984
he played extensively in Iran, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Nepal Burma,
Indonesia, Japan and Alaska. In
1985, making a rare appearance in London to play with the London Symphony
Orchestra he chose the occasion to introduce an early version of the Liszt Piano
Concerto in E flat as well as the Totentanz. Later Ozan Marsh made the first
recording of the Liszt Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and
coupled this with the Busoni orchestration of Liszt’s Spanish Rhapsody. These
performances, together with the artist’s own reconstruction of Liszt’s
original arrangement of the Totentanz for solo piano also feature among this
artists recordings in the Concert Artist Catalogue. Ozan
Marsh has recorded for RCA, CBS, VLR Records, the Voice of America and the
Boston Symphony Transcription Library. Concert Artist was indeed delighted that
this considerable pianist agreed to make several recordings for the label.
His unexpected death robbed us all of a fulfillment of these fascinating plans.
However, Ozan Marsh did complete some sessions and we are preparing these for
eventual release on Compact Disc.
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A
disciple of such pianistic giants of this century as Rachmaninoff, Horowitz,
Egon Petri, Casadesus and Emil Sauer, the late Ozan Marsh has received the
plaudits of audiences and critics around the world-particularly for his
performances of Liszt and Chopin. For more than four decades Ozan Marsh has won
critical acclaim in recital appearances and as soloist with the world’s most
distinguished orchestras. Among these are the New York Philharmonic, Boston
Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic,
Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic,
London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestras