Eugene List

He made his debut at the age of twelve with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Artur Rodziński, who recommended that he be sent to train with Olga Samaroff. He studied with Samaroff at the Philadelphia Conservatory and then moved to the Juilliard School in New York. In 1934, with the Philadelphia Philharmonic, he gave the first American performance of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1. He also gave the first performance in the US of Carlos Chávez’s Piano Concerto. In 1945, he performed for the participants in the Potsdam Conference. With his wife, the violinist Carroll Glenn, he performed several times for President Harry Truman. After the Second World, he taught piano at the Eastman School of Music in New York, and then at the University of New York and at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.