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Xak Bjerken, piano
Pianist Xak Bjerken has given solo and chamber music recitals throughout Europe and the United States. Orchestral solo appearances include Edinburgh with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Rome with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra and in Disney Hall, Los Angeles, with members of the LA Philharmonic. He has performed at the Royal Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall, and the Kennedy Center and has given recitals in Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Hungary.
Mr. Bjerken has held chamber music residencies at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, performed at the Olympic Music Festival, the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, and served on the faculty of the Eastern Music Festival. His first solo recording for CRI, released in 2001, was entitled "High Rise;" he has also recorded for Chandos, Albany Records, and Koch International and has made two recordings with violist Michael Zaretsky for the Artona label. Mr. Bjerken earned degrees from UCLA, as a student of Aube Tzerko, and the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with and was the teaching assistant of Leon Fleisher. He is Associate Professor of Piano at Cornell University.
Mr. Bjerken joined the Los Angeles Piano Quartet in 1998.
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