Sally Pinkas
Piano, Musical Artist
Who is Sally Pinkas?
Sally Pinkas is a pianist, born and raised in Israel.
She moved to the United States as a teenager to study piano. She earned performance degrees from Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Ph.D. in Composition and Theory from Brandeis University. She made her debut in London in 1983. Pinkas currently serves as Professor of Music at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and also as pianist-in-residence of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, performing for the local audience each season.
She explores contemporary music as well as the traditional repertoire. She is a passionate chamber musician, and actively performs with her husband Evan Hirsch as the Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo. Pinkas has given concerts and master classes throughout the United States and the world—she has traveled to Europe, Israel, Nigeria and China. She currently resides in Massachusetts.
Pinkas has released a number of notable solo and duo recordings. Her recording of Fauré's Thirteen Nocturnes was named one of the 2002's best CDs by The Boston Globe. American composers Daniel Pinkham and George Rochberg wrote duo piano works for the Hirsch-Pinkas Duo.
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- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Brandeis University
- Employment
- Dartmouth College
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on July 23, 2013
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