JOSHUA PIERCE PLAYS BRAHMS & STRAUSS
Recorded Live at the Reduta

JOSHUA PIERCE

SLOVAK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Czech National Symphony Orchestra
PAUL FREEMAN

  MS1346  ~  $14.95  

One of the outstanding pianists of his generation, JOSHUA PIERCE is well-known for dynamic interpretations of a wide range of repertoire from the Classical, Romantic and Modern periods. Over the course of his career, Mr. Pierce has garnered outstanding reviews from a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Gramophone, The Strad, London Telegraph, Billboard and dozens more. 

His career has included solo performances and appearances with a long list of major international orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestra in Great Britain, as well as the Berlin Radio Symphony, Moscow State Philharmonic, Czech National Symphony, Slovak Philharmonic, Luxembourg Philharmonic, RAI Orchestra of Rome, and Capella Istropolitana in Slovakia. In the United States, he has appeared with the Utah Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Missouri Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta and at most of the major concert venues and series in New York. 

In the chamber music setting, Mr. Pierce has performed with Russia’s Leontovich String Quartet, the Pierce-Aomori Duo, the New York Empire Trio and Chamber Players International. His 30-year collaboration with pianist Dorothy Jonas as part of the two-piano team Pierce & Jonas has resulted in numerous prize winning recordings and acclaimed performances, including a command performance for Britain’s Royal Family. A well-known contemporary music performer, Mr. Pierce is a Board Member and Official Pianist of the American Festival of MicroTonal Music, Inc. 

As a recording artist, Joshua Pierce has a long list of Grammy nominations to his credit, and has documented nearly 200 works on more than 55 CDs, including the complete piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms and Liszt and all of Gershwin's works for piano and orchestra. He has also recorded concerted works by Bach, Britten, Casella, Chopin, Gould, Khachaturian, Mendelssohn, Milhaud, Piston, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Respighi, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Tansman. His discography includes recordings on MSR Classics, EMI Classics, Sony Classical, Wergo, Pickwick, Koch, PITCH, Fanfare, Pro Arte, Albany, Varèse Sarabande, MMC, Phoenix and other labels.

Mr. Pierce has been a judge for many piano competitions and has served on the Board of the Fulbright Foundation. He is a winner of the GermanMusic Critics Prize, Fono Forum award, and Grand Prize of the IBLA International Competition for Contemporary Music and a nominee for the 23rd International Franz Liszt Grand Prix du Disque Prize of Hungary. Mr. Pierce has also performed extensively for public radio and television in the United States as well as in Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and South Korea.

Joshua Pierce was born in New York City and studied at the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University. His principal teachers and mentors were Dorothy Taubman, Victor Babin, Arthur Loesser and Robert Goldsand. He also studied chamber music performance with pianist Artur Balsam and cellist Bernard Greenhouse of the famed Beaux Arts Trio.