A piano prodigy who debuted at age 15, he was known for his interpretations of Liszt and Beethoven. He also taught for decades at the New England Conservatory.
Pianist Russell Sherman in 2010. He was a longtime instructor at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Russell Sherman, a concert pianist known for his boldly expressive interpretations of virtually everything he played — especially works by Beethoven and Liszt — and for influencing generations of young musicians as a teacher at the New England Conservatory in Boston, died Sept. 30 at his home in Lexington, Mass. He was 93.
“Whether because of his elusiveness or in spite of it,” New York Times music critic Bernard Holland wrote, reviewing a performance at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, “the aura left behind is strong: first a fierceness of imagination that makes us rethink what we know by heart, and then a physical technique allowing the most difficult music a confident sense of order and repose.”Mr.
Mr. Sherman completed another epic recording project in 2000, when he released the last in a five-volume set of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, a body of work that the German conductor Hans von Bülow once likened to the New Testament of piano repertoire. From Steuermann, he learned that music was about joy and play, not just technical mastery, and developed an aversion to commercial piano playing. He took lessons while also studying the humanities at Columbia University, receiving a bachelor’s degree at age 19, in 1949.
Mr. Sherman’s marriage to Natasha Koval, a pianist from present-day Ukraine, ended in divorce. In 1974, he married Korean-born pianist Wha Kyung Byun, one of his students. She later joined him on the faculty of the New England Conservatory.
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