Orchestra Seattle | Seattle Chamber Singers
George Shangrow, music director
OSSCS
PO Box 15825
Seattle, WA 98115

206-682-5208
osscs@osscs.org

 
PERFORMERS
JUDITH COHEN
 
piano

Pianist Judith Cohen began her keyboard career at the age of five and studied at the Chicago Musical College until the age of eighteen. She was First Prize winner in the 1984 Pacific International Piano Competition, prompting jury chairman Bela Nagy to call her "one of the five best pianists I have heard in the last fifteen years." In 1985, Ms. Cohen made her Community Concerts debut with recitals in Idaho, Washington and Montana, and her international debut with a recital in Mexico under the sponsorship of the Insituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. Critic Robert Somerlott of the Mexico City News hailed her as "an artist of unusual talent who captivated the audience with both her musicianship and stage presence." Since 1989, Judith Cohen has served as Artistic Director of the Governor's Chamber Music Series, planning and performing in chamber music concerts throughout the Pacific Northwest. She has also appeared at the Abbey Bach Festival, the Second City Chamber Music Series, the Ernest Bloch Music Festival and the Mostly Nordic Chamber Music Series.

In 1996 Ms. Cohen released a CD featuring the solo piano music of Béla Bartók. Of this recording, Fanfare reported: "On this attractive Bartók collection — in which some of his most popular piano music rubs up against less standard fare — [Cohen] shows herself to be a persuasive advocate for his gentler side…her light, treble-tilted tone and her transparent textures show her chosen repertoire off to good advantage. Her deft swing through the Roumanian Folk Dances is especially refreshing." Ms. Cohen recently signed an exclusive recording contract with Pear Records of Los Angeles, who recently released three solo and chamber music CDs featuring her at the piano.


Judith Cohen


Recent performances:
Russian Fantasy