David Dubal

David Dubal presents a program entitled, Glory of the Piano. The renowned Emmy and ASCAP award-winning journalist and radio host of WQXR's (93.9 FM) Reflections from the Keyboard will discuss the piano with On the Rise curator Thomas Osuga, and in addition will present three up-and-coming pianists: Michael Brown, Irene Wong, and Kimball Gallagher. This is a celebration of the piano as we approach the 300th anniversary since it's invention. (1709-2009).

David Dubal is internationally known as a pianist, teacher, writer, and broadcaster. An acknowledged authority on the piano literature, Mr. Dubal’s books. The Art of the Piano, Evenings with Horowitz, Reflections from the Keyboard, and Conversations with Menuhin are highly acclaimed and have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, etc. He has also written numerous articles in journals, liner notes, and CD booklets for the Nimbus Grand Piano Series. He edited American Piano Music from the Civil War through World War I for International Music. David Dubal’s video, The Golden Age of the Piano has been seen worldwide on Philips Classics VCR and DVD in four languages and won him an Emmy award. He also presented a multi-media show on Horowitz for Steinway and Sons using Horowitz’s piano. Recipient of the first ASCAP Deems Taylor award for broadcast journalism, David Dubal has won numerous awards including the coveted George Foster Peabody award.

Mr. Dubal has been on the faculty of the Juilliard School since 1983 and the Manhattan School of Music since 1995. Currently Mr. Dubal is heard every Wednesday night at 10:00PM on WQXR in his program: Reflections From The Keyboard, The Piano in Comparative Performance. His book, The Essential Canon of Classical Music was recently published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.>