Meet a Member Speculum Musicae – Aleck Karis
June 16, 2009
For over thirty years Aleck Karis has been one of the leading pianists in the New York contemporary music scene. Particularly associated with the music of Elliott Carter, Mario Davidovsky, and John Cage, he has championed their works all over the world. He has released four solo piano discs on Bridge Records featuring music by Mozart, Stravinsky, Chopin, Schumann, Carter and John Cage. Other solo and chamber music recordings appear on Nonesuch, Tzadic, New World, Neuma, Centaur and CRI Records, featuring music by Glass, Babbitt, Martino, and Feldman, among many others. His most recent disc, Late Piano Music of Frédéric Chopin, on Roméo, was released in March 2009.
Karis has studied with William Daghlian, Artur Balsam and Beveridge Webster and holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School. Currently, he is a Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego.
