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Seymour Lipkin 1927-2015
Seymour Lipkin with Rui Shi (Pre-College '99; BM '04, MM '06, piano).
(Photo by Peter Schaaf/Juilliard Archives)Seymour Austen Lipkin, piano prodigy, acclaimed conductor, and beloved member of the Juilliard faculty for almost 20 years, died on November 16 at the age of 88 in Blue Hill, Me., where he was the artistic director of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival.
Born on May 14, 1927, Lipkin grew up in Detroit and at age 11 went by himself to Philadelphia, where he, and later his sister, began studying at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Seymour Lipkin - Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand
In 1948, he won the Rachmaninoff Fund Piano Contest, beating out Gary Graffman and launching a high-octane career as a recitalist. But since childhood he had always been conducting, and he started his apprenticeship in the 1940s, working under Serge Koussevitsky at Tanglewood, George Szell in Cleveland, and Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic.
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