Walter Nowick

Male, Person

1926 –

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Who is Walter Nowick?

Walter Nowick was an American former teacher of Rinzai Zen. He was a Juilliard-trained pianist and a veteran of World War II. He studied Zen in Japan for sixteen years while teaching university-level piano and voice there, then returned to the United States to teach music and Zen in Surry, Maine, where he founded Moonspring Hermitage. He founded the Surry Opera Company in the mid-1980s and retired from formal Zen teaching in 1985.

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Born
Jan 29, 1926
Education
  • Juilliard School
Died
Apr 29, 2024

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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