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Karl Kohn
Karl Georg Kohn (born August 1, 1926 in Vienna, Austria) is an American composer, teacher and pianist.
== Biography ==
Kohn began playing the piano as a child in Vienna and, after he, at the age of 13, immigrated to the United States, continued his education at the New York College of Music (1940-1944) and at Harvard (B.A., M.A.) where he studied composition with Walter Piston, Irving Fine, and Randall Thompson.〔Pollack, Howard (1992). Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and His Students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2493-0.〕 He is W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Pomona College where he taught for over forty years.〔http://www.music.pomona.edu/faculty/kohn.shtml〕 His students at Pomona included Douglas Leedy, David Noon and Susan Morton Blaustein as well as, privately, Frank Zappa〔http://www.pomona.edu/magazine/pcmwin01/MUmilieu.shtml〕 and John McGuire.
With his wife, Margaret Kohn, he has had a long career as a duo-pianist in the United States and in Europe, with a repertoire focused on major 20th century works by Debussy, Bartók, Berio, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Ligeti, Reich, and Boulez. Kohn played in the US premier of Boulez's ''Structures'' together with the composer.
Kohn's own works have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestras, the Oakland Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, on the San Francisco Symphony's Musica Viva series, at the Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles (Kohn served for two decades on the board of directors of the Monday Evening Concerts), and in concerts and broadcasts throughout the United States and abroad.
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