Thomas Lorango [SEP] date of death
Thomas Lorango
Thomas Lorango, American pianist, was born on June 8, 1959 in Buffalo, New York; he died of AIDS on December 30, 1992 in New York City.
Life.
Lorango studied piano at the Curtis Institute of Music, where his teachers included Leon Fleischer, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, and Seymour Lipkin. He won prizes including the Leventritt Foundation Award, a Young Recitalist's Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the first piano prize at the 1979 G.B. Dealy Awards Competition, and
Warum", no. 3 from "Phantasiestücke", Op. 12; and no. 1 from "Gesänge der Frühe", Op. 133). According to the label, this recording was the first of the concerto to feature period instruments.
NCD 60108, "Thomas Lorango: The Debut Album" (Brahms, "Sonata No. 3 in F minor", op. 5; Robert Schumann, "Etudes Symphoniques", op. 13)
NCD 60133, "Richard Wagner: Original Piano