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~ TODD CROW, Music Director ~
Todd Crow has been widely acclaimed for performances in North and South America, and
Europe. The New York Times has described his playing as "heroic,
[showing] endless flair, color, and stamina." The Times of London has
called his playing "spine-chilling" and "exhilarating," and The Wall Street Journal raved that his playing exhibited "stunning control and a wonderful sense of musical architecture." He has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, England, Germany, the
Czech Republic, Venezuela, and elsewhere, and in recital or chamber music at
Washington’s National Gallery of Art, London’s Wigmore Hall, and New York’s
Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at
Lincoln Center. Most recently, he performed with the Jerusalem Symphony in
Israel and with Milano Classica and I Solisti Aquilani in Italy. He made his Carnegie Hall debut as soloist with the American
Symphony in 1992 and his London orchestral debut at the Barbican Centre with the
London Philharmonic in 1986. He performs regularly in the major halls of New
York and London and is heard frequently on BBC Radio in both live and recorded
performances. He has been heard at the Bard Music Festival, Casals Festival, Music Mountain, Maverick Concerts, and other
festivals. His CDs include sonatas by Haydn and Schubert, Liszt’s
piano solo transcription of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, works of
Sergei Taneyev, Erno Dohnányi, and with cellist Mark Shuman, the complete works for cello and
piano by Mendelssohn. He has also recorded Ernst Toch’s Piano Concerto (New
World Records) with the North German Radio Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein.
His most recent CD, "Todd Crow: The BBC Recordings" (MSR label), contains solo
piano works by Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn/Liszt, Moscheles, and Schumann
originally recorded for BBC Radio. Born in Santa Barbara, California, he is an honors graduate of the University of California
and the Juilliard School. He also attended the Music Academy of the West. His teachers have included Erno Daniel, Ania Dorfmann,
and Emanuel Bay. At the age of thirteen, he was awarded an indefinitely
renewable scholarship for the study of music composition from the Epstein
Foundation of Chicago, and as a teenager won prizes for his works including a
competition sponsored by the National Society of Arts and Letters. At age
fifteen, he won the Santa Barbara Symphony Young Artists Competition.
Additionally, he is editor of the volume Bartók Studies (Detroit, 1976) and the author of articles on Bartók. In 1986 he received the University of
California’s Distinguished Alumni Award and is currently the George Sherman
Dickinson Professor of Music at Vassar College.
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Pianist Todd Crow
assumed the post of Music Director of the Mt. Desert Festival of Chamber Music in 1996, having taken the reins from founding music director Matthew Raimondi. He had appeared at the festival nearly every summer as a guest artist since 1973.
