Jerome Lowenthal fascinates audiences, who find in his playing a youthful intensity and an eloquence born of life-experience. He is a virtuoso of the fingers and the emotions. He made his debut with the New York Philharmonic playing Bartók's Concerto No. 2 in 1963.  Since then, he has performed more-or-less everywhere, from the Aleutians to Zagreb. Conductors with whom he has appeared as soloist include Barenboim, Ozawa, Tilson Thomas, Temirkanov, and Slatkin, as well as such giants of the past as Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, Pierre Monteux, and Leopold Stokowski. In chamber music he has participated in innumerable festivals and has performed piano duets with his late wife Ronit Amir and his daughter Carmel Lowenthal. His recorded repertoire is vast and includes the complete Années de pèlerinage of Liszt, the complete concerti of Tchaikovsky, the Beethoven Fourth Concerto with 11 different cadenzas, the Gershwin Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue, Ned Rorem’s Concerto No. 3 (written for him), Liszt Concerti, and solo discs of the music of George Rochberg and Christian Sinding, as well as two-piano and four-hand music (Messiaen, Debussy, Rzewski, and Corigliano) with his partner, Ursula Oppens. Teaching, too, is an essential part of his life: last year he completed 50 summers at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and this year is his 30th on the faculty of The Juilliard School. Lowenthal studied with Olga Samaroff-Stokowski, William Kapell, Edward Steuermann, Alfred Cortot, and Artur Rubinstein.