Claude Frank, piano

Frank debuted with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in 1959. He has recorded a Beethoven CD, featuring 32 of the composer's sonatas. He has been an internationally acclaimed soloist with: the New York Philharmonic; Chicago, Boston and National Symphonies; the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra; and orchestras of Toronto, Zurich, Brussels and Frankfurt. He has been faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale School of Music, Duke University, the University of Kansas and North Carolina School of the Arts. Frank joined the Sarasota Music Festival faculty in 2004.