Todd Crow - The BBC Recordings (Piano Music by Mendelssohn, Moscheles & Schumann) (2010)

TODD CROW has been widely acclaimed for performances in North and South America and in Europe. He made his Carnegie Hall debut as soloist with the American Symphony in 1992 and his London orchestral debut at the Barbican Centre with the London Philharmonic in 1986. In recent years Mr. Crow has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, England, Italy, Israel, the Czech Republic and elsewhere, and in recital and chamber music at the Berlioz-Dutilleux Festival in Manchester, Washington’s National Gallery of Art, London’s Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall. He has been heard frequently on BBC Radio in both live and recorded performances and on numerous American stations.

Since 1996, Mr. Crow has been Music Director and pianist of the Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music in Northeast Harbor, Maine. In addition to many appearances at the Bard Music Festival, he has been heard at the Casals Festival, Music Mountain, Maverick Concerts and other festivals. He can be heard on the MSR, Bridge, Toccata Classics, ASV, New World, Albany Records, and Golden String labels, and among his CDs are works by Dohnányi, Haydn, Schubert and Taneyev; the complete works for cello and piano by Mendelssohn with cellist Mark Shuman, and Toch’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the NDR-Hamburg Symphony under Leon Botstein.

Born in Santa Barbara, California, Todd Crow is an honors graduate of the University of California and the Juilliard School, and has studied with Ernö Dániel, Ania Dorfmann and Emanuel Bay, among others. He is a recipient of UCal’s Distinguished Alumni Award and is currently Professor of Music on the George Sherman Dickinson Chair at Vassar College.