Pianist AUDREY AXINN appears regularly throughout the United States and Europe performing on early and modern keyboard instruments. Since her debut as a fortepianist in 1999 at the Boston Early Music Festival, Ms. Axinn has become a sought-after specialist in eighteenth-century music. She has performed at the 92nd Street Y “Meet the Virtuoso” series and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the Vleeshuis Museum in Antwerp; the Cappella de’Turchini in Naples; the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy and the Willet-Holthuysen Museum in Amsterdam, Bargemusic and the Edinburgh International Festival. Ms. Axinn performs as part of a four-hand keyboard duo with fortepianist Bart van Oort. As a modern pianist and collaborative artist, Ms. Axinn has performed at major New York venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Caramoor Festival. Ms. Axinn has partnered with numerous exceptional performers including Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Eugene Fodor, Matt Haimovitz and Daniel Heifetz. She has recorded works of Ibert, Milhaud, and David Amram with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra for the Koch International and Newport Classics labels, and was a featured soloist in a recording of Vaughan Williams for BMG. Ms. Axinn currently teaches fortepiano, chamber music and collaborative piano at The Juilliard School. She lectures and gives master classes in all three disciplines. She holds a Masters degree and a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School, as well as degrees from The Curtis Institute of Music and Manhattan School of Music. Her teachers have included Zitta Zohar, Samuel Sanders, Margo Garrett and Vladimir Sokoloff. She lives in New York City.
