C.W. Post Professor Nominated for Grammy Award

February 17, 2003 - Pianist David Holzman, a Manhattan resident and adjunct music professor at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, has been nominated for a 2003 Grammy award for his CD titled Stefan Wolpe: Compositions for Piano (1920-1952) released on Bridge Records. Holzman is nominated in the category Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra). The Grammy winners will be announced on February 23, 2003.

Holzman has earned international acclaim for his recitals, recordings and writings. Among his honors and awards have been recording grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Reader's Digest-Meet the Composer and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Holzman has premiered hundreds of keyboard compositions by twentieth century composers from around the world and has made first recordings of many of them. Among his recordings are masterpieces by composers from Schoenberg and Bloch to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and the younger generation of American composers.

Holzman has performed at New York’s Merkin Hall, New Jersey’s African Museum, and at festivals around the world such as the Darmstadt Festival in Germany, the Leningrad Spring Festival in Russia, Alternativa Festival in Moscow, the Schoenberg Festival in Austria and the Wolpe Festival in Canada. Future appearances include concerts at the Center for Jewish History in New York City and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

Born in New York in 1949, David Holzman received his BM magna cum laude from Mannes College of Music where he studied with Paul Jacobs and completed his studies with Nadia Reisenberg at Queens College. He was a finalist in the Carnegie Competition of St. Germaine-en-Laye. As a chamber musician, he has played with most of New York's major ensembles under conductors such as Gerard Schwarz, Arthur Weisberg and Charles Wuorinen. An active lecturer, his essay "On Performing Battle Piece" is scheduled for publication in a collection honoring Stefan Wolpe's centennial. Holzman’s introductory essays to Wolpe’s piano works appear in editions published by PeerMusic Classical. His liner notes for the Bridge recording have been nominated for the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, given for best writings on music of the year.

Holzman is the organizer of an upcoming day-long celebration of the life and music of Stefan Wolpe, under whom he studied piano as a child. The celebration "Stefan Wolpe: Three Lands, One Language," will take place at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, New York on Sunday, April 6, 2003. It will include panel discussions and musical performances, including performances by Holzman. The event is part of a series of commemorations being held around the world by the Stefan Wolpe Society in celebration of the centennial of Wolpe’s birth.

For additional information, call the C.W. Post Office of Public Relations at (516) 299-2333.