David Dubal

Dubal has given piano recitals and master classes worldwide, and has also judged international piano competitions (including the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition). He recorded several albums jointly with pianist Stanley Waldoff for the Musical Heritage Society,[https://www.discogs.com/search?q=dubal+waldoff&type=all Dubal & Waldoff MHS releases (Discogs.com)] and four compact discs of these recordings have been released on the ArkivCD label. (His album of Aram Khachaturian solo piano works[http://www.discogs.com/Aram-Khachaturian-David-Dubal-Piano-Music/release/3306048 'Aram Khachaturian -- David Dubal -- Piano Music' info at Discogs.com] has never been given a compact disc release, although it has been archived at YouTube.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNLNSHUBFX4 Khachaturian Piano Music Recital by David Dubal, archived at YouTube.com]) Dubal appeared in the 2013 Dutch film Nostalgia: The Music of Wim Statius Muller, commenting on the musical compositions of Wim Statius Muller, who was Dubal's teacher at Ohio State University.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821553/?ref_=nm_flmg_com_1 Nostalgia: The Music of Wim Statius Muller (2013) at imdb.com] Dubal taught at the Juilliard School from 1983 to 2018, and at the Manhattan School of Music from 1994 until 2015.

Dubal's drawings[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyiV6cEkH2g Drawings at YouTube] and paintings[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-R62W0K2Ms Paintings at YouTube] have garnered attention and praise.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X5FjQ4Ofus Reception of paintings and drawings at YouTube]{{Cite web|date=2007-12-14|title=The Other Side of David Dubal|url=http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/other-side-david-dubal|access-date=2021-12-08|website=The Juilliard School|language=en}} In 2020, a book titled Selected Paintings and Drawings of David Dubal was published by TIMP Universal, New York.[https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Paintings-Drawings-David-Dubal/dp/0578786362/ref=sr_1_1? 'Selected Paintings and Drawings of David Dubal' at Amazon.com]

Dubal has written several books, including The Art of the Piano, Evenings with Horowitz, Conversations with Menuhin, Reflections from the Keyboard, Conversations with Joao Carlos Martins, The Essential Canon of Classical Music (an encyclopedic guide to the prominent composers of the Western canon), and Remembering Horowitz (with 125 essays by accomplished pianists and a disc of Vladimir Horowitz and Dubal in conversation).[https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001H6SFXK David Dubal's page at Amazon.com] He also wrote and hosted The Golden Age of the Piano, an Emmy Award-winning documentary produced by Peter Rosen.[https://www.peterrosenproductions.com/productions/goldenage/ 'The Golden Age of the Piano' webpage (at Peter Rosen Productions website)][http://www.nyemmys.org/media/files/files/372c59d1/nyemmyawards38.pdf 38th Annual New York Emmy Awards] Several of his articles on music have appeared in The Wall Street Journal,[https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324577904578559401212056738 Dubal on Gottschalk in Wall Street Journal (2013)][https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204555904577169271863013882 Dubal on Liszt in Wall Street Journal (2012)][https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703447004575449732019362448 Dubal on Chopin's 'Preludes' in Wall Street Journal (2010)][https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324355904578159630271361080 Dubal on Debussy in Wall Street Journal (2012)] and The New Criterion.[https://newcriterion.com/search_gcse/#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=david+dubal&gsc.sort= Dubal pieces written for 'The New Criterion']

Dubal is currently the host and instructor of the weekly Piano Evenings with David Dubal series, held at Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church in New York City. Dubal "provides historical and musical context for each week's repertoire selections, performed by a rotating lineup of acclaimed pianists."[https://pianoevenings.com/ Piano Evenings with David Dubal homepage]

Dubal has lectured numerous times at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art since the 1980s, to include lectures on Beethoven,[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=David+Dubal+%26+David+Syme+at+the+Met%3A+Beethoven Lectures on Beethoven, 11/27/85 & 12/11/85] a 200th birthday lecture on Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann in 2010, three lectures in 2011 on Russian Romantic composers, and four lectures in 2012 on La Belle Époque.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4jw27ujyRI&t=22s Dubal on "La Belle Epoque" at the Met, 2012] He gave three lectures (on Chopin, Liszt, and the history of the piano[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeR0rQmrLvw Lecture on the history of the piano] at the 1993 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition) at the 1993 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Dubal has given interviews on the subjects of the great pianists, music history and tradition, and the century of social change to the Snapshots Music and Arts Foundation, and these interviews are available to hear at their website.[http://snapshotsfoundation.com/index.php/articles/63-david-dubal-history-interview David Dubal on history and tradition at SnapshotsFoundation.com][http://snapshotsfoundation.com/index.php/articles/111-david-dubal-the-great-pianists David Dubal on the great pianists at SnapshotsFoundation.com][http://snapshotsfoundation.com/index.php/articles/112-david-dubal-the-century-of-social-change David Dubal on the century of social change at SnapshotsFoundation.com]

Dubal is the host of The Piano Matters, a program of comparative piano performances that can be heard on WWFM and other US radio stations.[http://wwfm.org/programs/piano-matters-david-dubal#stream/0 Archived episodes of The Piano Matters at WWFM.org] He also hosts Reflections from the Keyboard,[https://www.wqxr.org/shows/keyboard/ Reflections from the Keyboard] a weekly exploration of piano recordings, heard on WQXR-FM.

In the late 1990s, Dubal hosted a series of radio programs titled The American Century, focusing on musical works of the 20th century written by American composers. Many episodes of this series have been archived at YouTube.

From 1971 to 1994, Dubal served as music director of New York City classical music radio station WNCN-FM. In 1975 and 1976, he hosted a regular program of comparative performances titled A Musical Offering, focusing on the piano music of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Liszt, and more than a hundred of these programs have been archived at YouTube. In 1980, his series of interviews with Vladimir Horowitz, Conversations with Horowitz, was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award.[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/institutional-award-wncn-radio-for-overall-performance "Institutional Award: WNCN Radio for Overall Performance as Exemplified by 'Conversations with Horowitz'"] (peabodyawards.com)

In the early 1980s, Dubal interviewed Claudio Arrau for a series titled Conversations with Arrau consisting of six programs on the great pianist's life and career. In 1985, he interviewed Yehudi Menuhin at the WNCN-FM studios; much of this conversation was used in the book Conversations with Menuhin. Dubal also hosted a series of WNCN-FM programs titled For the Love of Music, in which he interviewed pianists, including Murray Perahia, Mitsuko Uchida, and Alexis Weissenberg, composers, including John Corigliano, Phillip Ramey, William Mayer and Laurent Petitgirard, and other prominent people in the arts, including Quentin Crisp, Shlomo Mintz, and Wanda Wiłkomirska. More than a hundred of these interviews have been archived at YouTube.

Dubal was honored by composer Virgil Thomson with a musical portrait titled "David Dubal: In Flight"; it has been recorded by pianist Jacquelyn Helin,[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0045EDQYE "David Dubal: In Flight" recorded by Jacquelyn Helin] pianist Craig Rutenberg,[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBCQNYGL "David Dubal: In Flight" recorded by Craig Rutenberg] and a version orchestrated by Thomson was also recorded.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwjbST3uRe4 Version of "David Dubal: In Flight" orchestrated by Virgil Thomson][http://www.folklib.net/oso/oso_discog.shtml#THOMSON "David Dubal: In Flight", Oshkosh S.O., Henri B. Pensis, conductor] An analysis of "David Dubal: In Flight" can be found in Anthony Tommasini's book Virgil Thomson's Musical Portraits.[https://www.amazon.com/Thomsons-Musical-Portraits-Thematic-Catalogues/dp/0918728517 'Virgil Thomson's Musical Portraits' by Anthony Tommasini] In 1986, Dubal was recognized for his work at WNCN-FM with an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for broadcasting.[https://www.ascapfoundation.org/programs/awards/award-recipients/deems-taylor/1986 19th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Award Recipients] In 2006, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the State University of New York.{{Cite web |url=http://www.albany.edu/academics/honorary.degree.shtml |title=State University of New York (SUNY) Honorary Degrees |access-date=2013-11-15 |archive-date=2015-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918135348/http://www.albany.edu/academics/honorary.degree.shtml |url-status=dead }}

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• [https://pianoevenings.com/events/ Piano Evenings with David Dubal] website
• [http://wwfm.org/programs/piano-matters-david-dubal#stream/0 Archived episodes of The Piano Matters] (at WWFM.org website)
• [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUYG7SHGvudE5ZvVHevK7XewcPfrf_WcS Archived episodes of 'For the Love of Music' (and more)] at YouTube
• {{YouTube|HVB_vTy-6zE|David Dubal discussing Artur Schnabel with Claude Frank}}, IKIF, 20-Jul-2008
• [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNXjZzwMqcB8RV76zI2aAhgFxRzuWIB3u Episodes of 'A Musical Offering' devoted to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier] at YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNXjZzwMqcB-OybV48F3FBhS-cY3jkRQP Episodes of 'A Musical Offering' devoted to Beethoven's piano sonatas] at YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNXjZzwMqcB_eT9d5oIyoi5T27RLlNsiC Episodes of 'A Musical Offering' devoted to Brahms's solo piano music] at YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNXjZzwMqcB_UR6Ix-GzPvkcYnv0Bf0bg Episodes of 'A Musical Offering' devoted to Chopin's music] at YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNXjZzwMqcB9ekdOlGqYRwgdUApBD2sCE Episodes of 'A Musical Offering' devoted to Liszt's piano music] at YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNXjZzwMqcB-5AlqDyaTye5DL3NeEL15X Episodes of 'The American Century', devoted to 20th century American music] at YouTube
• David Dubal on Discogs{{Cite web |title=David Dubal |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/2550328-David-Dubal |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=Discogs |language=en}}

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