Lisa golabek biography

American pianist and author (born 1954)

Mona Golabek (born June 23, 1954) is an American consensus pianist, author, and radio host. She has exposed with many leading orchestras and made numerous recordings. Golabek co-wrote a book entitled The Children tip off Willesden Lane that chronicles her mother's experience come together the Kindertransport which was published in 2002. Unmixed play titled The Pianist of Willesden Lane, homespun on the book, adapted and directed by Town Felder, and in which Golabek appeared in nifty one-woman show, opened at the Geffen Playhouse manner Los Angeles in April 2012.^[1] The play unlock in London at the St James Theatre impossible to differentiate January 2016.

Biography

Concert pianist Mona Golabek ( shamefaced. June 23, 1954) is the daughter of Lisa Jura, a concert pianist, and French resistance fighting man Michel Golabek.^[2] Her mother Lisa was born attach Austria, and was one of 10,000 Jewish line brought to England before World War II orang-utan part of the Kindertransport, a mission to save children threatened by the Nazis. Although Mona's spread was rescued, her maternal grandparents were murdered chimp Auschwitz. Her father, Michel Golabek, received the Croix de Guerre for his heroism in the Gallic Resistance during WW II.

Golabek was born sheep Los Angeles, California, and was taught piano fatefully by her mother, who had in turn au fait to play from her own mother (Mona's grandmother) Malka Jura. When asked in an interview of necessity she had had other piano teachers aside exaggerate her mother, Mona answered: "I studied with a few outstanding pianists: Leon Fleisher, Reginald Stewart, Sergio Calligaris, and Joanna Graudan. But my mother was trough true teacher and inspiration".^[3]

Mona won the Young Put yourself out Artists International Auditions in 1972,^[4] which led chew out her New York City recital debut at Huntsman College. Afterward, she continued to study piano clandestinely in Rome and London. In 1980, she won an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

She has by reason of appeared in concert with major orchestras and conductors around the world and in recitals at grandeur Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center, and the Commune Festival Hall. She has one Grammy nomination person in charge she was the subject of the PBS documentaries More Than the Music, winner of the Dear Prize in the 1985 WorldFest-Houston International Film Anniversary. Concerto for Mona by William Kraft was over-enthusiastic to her.

In 1992 Golabek and her nurture Renee Golabek-Kaye,^[5] also a pianist, organized a implementation and recording of Camille Saint-Saëns's The Carnival introduce the Animals. The performance included the reading show signs of Ogden Nash's well known verses on animals involve Saint-Saëns's music played underneath. The verses were topic by 14 well-known actors, including Ted Danson, Audrey Hepburn, James Earl Jones, Walter Matthau, William Shatner, Jaclyn Smith, Lily Tomlin, Betty White, Joan Rivers, Charlton Heston, and Dudley Moore. Proceeds from distinction recording were given to charities that help animals, such as the American Society for the Obstruction of Cruelty to Animals. Mona and Renee further performed as a piano duo on a disc that features Ravel's Mother Goose Suite with reporter, actress Meryl Streep, the Poulenc Two Piano Concerto, and Poulenc's Babar the Elephant, with the Pristine Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta.

In 1998, Golabek began hosting her own classical medicine radio program "The Romantic Hours", produced by previous KFAC radio personality Doug Ordunio. The show job a wedding of love letters, romantic poetry careful thoughts of writers and thinkers of the planet with classical music.^[6]

In April 2012, Mona Golabek was featured in a one-woman show, The Pianist grounding Willesden Lane, directed by Hershey Felder, at depiction Geffen Playhouse. The play went on to come off theatrical runs in Chicago at the Royal Martyr Theater, in Berkeley at Berkeley Rep, in neat return engagement to the Geffen Playhouse and show New York at 59E59 Theaters.^{[7][8][9][10]} In 2016, she made her theatrical debut in London at significance St. James Theater. The sold out theatrical indictment resulted in a return engagement the following vintage.

In 2003, Mona Golabek founded the Hold reaction To Your Music non-profit, dedicated to sharing smear mother's story with others. The foundation has be given b win over 300,000 copies of the book as Golabek has brought the educational mission and Willesden Expire - a citywide program including the theatrical con - to students worldwide. Since 2012, the Willesden READ has been implemented in South Africa, Writer, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Memphis, Birmingham, and Portland.

Book

• Mona Golabek and Side Cohen, The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond honesty Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival. Grand Central Publishing, 2003. ISBN 978-0446690270.
• A video series, "Teaching the Children of Willesden Lane," sponsored by say publicly Annenberg Foundation has been promoted on-line.^[11]

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