Sally Pinkas is a

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, born and raised in Israel. She is Professor of Music at

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, and pianist-in-residence of the

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at Dartmouth.

Early life and education

Pinkas moved to the United States as a teenager to study piano. She studied at

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and the New England Conservatory of Music, and earned her Ph.D. in Composition and Theory from

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. She made her debut in London in 1983.

Career

Her principal teachers were

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, George Sebok, Luise Vosgerchian, Genia Bar-Niv and

Rami Bar-Niv Rami Bar-Niv ( he, רמי בר-ניב; born December 1, 1945 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine) is an Israeli pianist, composer, author, and instructor of master classes. Bar-Niv is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he st ...

(piano),

Sergiu Natra Sergiu Natra (12 April 1924 – 23 February 2021) was an Israeli composer of classical music. (Print version: Sadie, Stanley (ed.), ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', Macmillan, 1980, Vol. 13 p. 76. ) Among Natra's creations: ...

(composition), and Robert Koff (chamber music). She explores contemporary music as well as the traditional repertoire, including chamber music. She performs with her husband Evan Hirsch as the Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo. Pinkas has released a number of solo and duo recordings. Her recording of Fauré's ''Thirteen Nocturnes'' was named one of the 2002's best CDs by ''

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.'' American composers

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and

George Rochberg George Rochberg (July 5, 1918May 29, 2005) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Long a serial composer, Rochberg abandoned the practice following the death of his teenage son in 1964; he claimed this compositional technique ...

wrote duo piano works for the Hirsch-Pinkas Duo. ''

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'' noted her “exquisite performance” in her “superlatively well-played” recording of

Harold Shapero Harold Samuel Shapero (April 29, 1920 – May 17, 2013) was an American composer. Early years Shapero was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1920. He and his family later moved to nearby Newton. He learned to play the piano as a chi ...

’s Piano Music, released on the UK label Toccata Classics.

References

External links

Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo websiteDartmouth Music Department faculty website
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