Thomas Lanners

performer of Ned Rorem: The Three Piano Sonatas

November 4, 2015

Thomas Lanners, Professor of Piano, has appeared as a solo and collaborative pianist and clinician throughout the U.S. and abroad, presenting his New York solo debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in October 2004. His performances have been broadcast nationally and internationally on programs such as NPR's Performance Today and RTÉ Radio 1's Sunday Miscellany in Ireland. Lanners' latest recording, Ned Rorem: The Three Piano Sonatas, was released in 2007 on Centaur Records. The disc has received much critical praise, including the following quotes from critic Mark Lehman's review in American Record Guide: "It's especially pleasing to have all three of Rorem's sonatas on one disc, superbly played by Thomas Lanners, and in clear, vivid sound. Anyone who cares about mainstream 20th Century piano music should seek out this superlative recording."

Thomas was awarded a grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording in New York to record these works by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. His previous CD, Touches of Bernstein: The Complete Published Piano Music of Leonard Bernstein, was released by Centaur in 2005. Among recent solo appearances, Lanners performed in November 2007 on the Pianistes la Maison du Peuple series at the Centre Culturel Jacques Franck in Brussels, and at the Rode Pomp in Gent, Belgium. In October 2007, he performed on the Classical Mondays recital series in Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center, the city's preeminent recital venue. Lanners received his Master's and Doctoral degrees in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music as a student of Barry Snyder, after earning his Bachelor of Music degree at Florida State University as a student of Leonidas Lipovetsky. His feature articles have been published in American Music Teacher and Clavier magazines.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2008-honorees/thomas-lanners

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