Anton Kuerti wins Banff's National Arts Award
Last Updated: Monday, August 13, 2007 | 11:29 AM MT
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Anton Kuerti, one of Canada's most acclaimed concert pianists, will be honoured this week with the National Arts Award from the Banff Centre.
The musician, composer and teacher is a faculty member and frequent guest pianist at the Banff Centre, the arts and conference centre set in the Rockies.
The National Arts Award, first given in 1951 as the University of Alberta National Arts Awards and handed out by the Banff Centre since 1980, recognizes significant contributions to the development of the arts in Canada.
The prize includes $5,000 and a two-week residency at the Leighton Artists' Studio in Banff.
Past honourees include Margaret Atwood, Zacharias Kunuk, Timothy Findley, Denys Arcand, Maureen Forrester, Vincent Massey and A.Y. Jackson.
Kuerti was born in Vienna in 1938, and has been a Canadian citizen since 1984.
He has played around the world with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Vancouver Symphony. He has built an international reputation for his rendering of Beethoven's concertos and sonatas, the Schubert sonatas and the Brahms concertos.
As a chamber musician, he has performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, and the Guarneri and Tokyo string quartets.
Kuerti has been artistic director of Music Toronto and the first Carl Czerny Music Festival, and taught at the University of Toronto. Among his many awards is the Order of Canada.
He will be honoured Saturday at a concert, where he will perform Brahms's Piano Concert No. 2, with the festival orchestra conducted by Alain Trudel.
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