Gideon Rubin has a multi-faceted career that encompasses performing as a soloist, as a chamber musician, as an orchestral keyboardist, and as a composer. As soloist, he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston’s Symphony Hall, with the Boston Classical Orchestra, with the Mannes Orchestra, several times with the New World Symphony (once conducting from the keyboard), with the New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra on a tour of Israel, with the Longy School Orchestra, and at the Eastern Music Festival where he teaches and performs in the Summers. His performance as soloist in John Adams’ “Grand Pianola Music” (with the composer conducting) in San Francisco’s Davies Hall in 2000 was featured on the “Jim Lehrer News Hour”. He has also performed on live radio broadcasts in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and in Israel.

He has performed solo and chamber music recitals throughout the United States and in Europe. During the 2001-2002 season, he was the pianist for the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, performing concerts in Virginia and on tour in Sicily, Italy. From 1997-2000 he was the pianist/keyboardist for the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, performing in Miami, New York’s Alice Tully Hall, and major venues in Paris, London, Amsterdam, and Vienna. In recent seasons, he has performed chamber music with Julia Fischer, David Jolley, Lynn Harrel, Corey Cerovsek, Timothy Fain, and William deRosa.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Harvard University, a Masters in Music from Boston University’s School of the Arts, and a Doctorate from the University of Southern California. He also spent time at Mannes School of Music as a visiting scholar. His main teachers have been Edward Aldwell, Russell Sherman, Benjamin Pasternack, and Norman Krieger. He has served as visiting professor at Pomona College, and now serves as Music Director and as piano faculty Member at the Los Angeles Music and Art School where he won the award for “Teacher of the Year” in 2005 and 2008.

He is the founder and Director of the LAPCA Youth Orchestra, which was chosen in 2009 to be a Los Angeles Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Partner, providing the orchestra with regular coaching from members of the LA Philharmonic. The orchestra performed in 2009 at the Hollywood Bowl for Gustavo Dudamel as part of the celebration welcoming him to his new position as Director of the LA Phil. In 2011, the LAPCA Youth Orchestra will be performing a 40-minute concert in Walt Disney Concert Hall (home of the LA Phil).

Dr. Rubin is an active supporter of new music. He has performed with new music ensembles in New York, Los Angeles, Fresno, at Harvard University, at Boston University, and with the New World Symphony. He has performed many new works in premieres, including some of his own compositions. His own works include compositions for voice, cello, chamber orchestra, piano, and electronic media. He has recorded a solo CD of 20th Century American music (available on cdbaby.com), and a CD of orchestral music by Steven Mackey on the RCA-BMG label as a member of the New World Symphony. His recording of piano quartets of Dvorak and Martinu with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet won “Best Classical Album of 2004” in the Just Plain Folks Music Awards.

In recent seasons, Dr. Rubin has performed at the American Church and American Cathedral in Paris, Symphony Space in New York City, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., at the Myra Hess Foundation Concerts in Chicago, and on the Los Angeles County Museum’s “Sundays Live” Radio Broadcast Series. In the summer of 2010, in addition to being a regular faculty member at the Eastern Music Festival, he will be a faculty member of the Beverly Hills Music Festival and a visiting performing artist at the Garth Newel Music Center in Virginia.

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