Ivan Davis

Ivan Roy Davis, Jr. (February 4, 1932 – March 12, 2018)^[1] was an American classical pianist and longstanding member of the faculty at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music.

Early life

Davis was born in

Performance and recording career

External audio
You may hear Ivan Davis playing Étude No. 2 in F minor (La leggierezza) Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-flat major in 1961 Here on archive.org

He debuted at New York City's Town Hall in 1959.

• "Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2,Ivan Davis with Henry Lewis conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra", Decca Phase 4 stereo concert series, PFS 4214 1971
• "Davis Plays Czerny, Schumann, Liszt", Audiofon, CD 72004
• "The Wind Demon and other 19th century piano music", New World, 80257-2
• "Piano Music of Grieg – Ivan Davis", Audiofon, CD 72022
• "Liszt – Piano Concertos – Ivan Davis", Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Downes. Coupled with solo performances of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 and Paraphrase on Wedding March and Dance of the Elves from Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream. London Weekend Classics, 421-629-2
• "Souvenir de Porto Rico – Piano Music of Gottschalk – Ivan Davis", London Weekend Classics, 436-108-2
• "Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue – Cleveland Orchestra – Maazel", London Jubilee, 417-716-2
• "Digital George – Gershwin Classics", Musical Heritage Society, 513380w
• "Chopin – Favourite Piano Works – Ivan Davis", Castile Communications, CCD-106
• "Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Davis", Castile Communications, CCD-103
• "Liszt's Greatest Hits – Hungarian Fantasy with Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra, CBS-MLK-39450
• Great Galloping Gottschalk: America's First Superstar, London Records/Decca (1975) CS 6943
• "Music of George Antheil", Music Masters Classics (BMG), 67094-2 ^[8][11]

Family

• On August 6, 1960, in New Canaan, Connecticut, Davis married Betty Lou Saxton, who studied at the Juilliard School and Columbia University.^[12]

References

General references

• The Art of the Piano. Its Performers, Literature, and Recordings, third edition, by
  Amadeus Press
  , 2004
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, sixth edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995), London: Collier Macmillan Publishers
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Seventh edition, revised by
  Macmillan Publishing Co.
  , Schirmer Books, 1984
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Eighth edition, revised by
  Macmillan Publishing Co.
  , 1992
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Ninth edition, edited by Laura Kuhn, New York:
  Schirmer Books
  , 2001
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians, by
  Schirmer Books
  , 1997
• International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory, Ninth edition, edited by Adrian Gaster (1919–1989). Cambridge, England: International Who's Who in Music, 1980
• International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory. 12th edition, 1990–1991, Cambridge, England: International Who's Who in Music, 1990.
  Taylor and Francis International Publication Services, Bristol, Pennsylvania
• The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Four volumes, edited by
  Hugh Wiley Hitchcock (1923–2007) and Stanley Sadie (1930–2005) London: Macmillan Press
  , 1986
• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 20 volumes, edited by Stanley Sadie (1930–2005), London: Macmillan Publishers, 1980
• The Penguin Dictionary of Musical Performers. A biographical guide to significant interpreters of classical music – singers, solo instrumentalists, conductors, orchestras and string quartets – ranging from the seventeenth century to the present day, by
  Arthur David Jacobs (1922–1996) London: Viking
  , 1990
• Ivan Davis: Pianist and teacher (DMA Dissertation), by Jeffrey Scott Hodgson, University of Miami, 2001

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