Emanuel Ax
American pianist
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- Bachelors Piano Juilliard School
- Masters Piano Juilliard School
- Doctorate Piano Juilliard School
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Emanuel "Manny" Ax is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is a teacher at the Juilliard School. Early life Ax was born to a Polish-Jewish family in Lviv, Ukraine, to Joachim and Hellen Ax. Both parents were Nazi concentration camp survivors. Ax began to study piano at the age of six; his father was his first piano teacher. When he was seven the family moved to Warsaw, Poland , and then two years later to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he continued to study music, including as a member of The Junior Musical Club of Winnipeg. In 1961, the family moved to New York City and Ax continued his studies at the Juilliard School under Mieczysław Munz. In 1970, he received his B.A. in French at Columbia University and became an American citizen. The same year, he received an honorable mention at the VIII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. In 1973 he won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions.
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