David William Garvey (March 13, 1922 – February 14, 1995)[2] was an American pianist and academic. He is known as the regular accompanist of Leontyne Price and other performers, including violinists Itzhak Perlman, Michael Rabin and Wanda Wiłkomirska.
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Born | (1922-03-13)March 13, 1922[1] Reading, Pennsylvania |
Died | February 14, 1995(1995-02-14) (aged 72) New York City |
Education | Juilliard School |
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Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, he studied at the Juilliard School with Beveridge Webster, graduating in 1948.[3] He met Leontyne Price there, and began in 1953 to perform with her regularly on tours abroad and in the White House.[4] In concerts with her, he was announced as pianist, not as accompanist.[5]
He also collaborated with singers William Blankenship,[6] Elizabeth Mannion, Mary O'Hara,[7] Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey,[8] and Jennie Tourel, and with violinists Joseph Fuchs, Itzhak Perlman, Michael Rabin,[3] Charles Treger,[9] and Wanda Wiłkomirska,[10] among others.[3]
Garvey taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1976. He died in New York City.[3][11]
Garvey recorded the three Violin Sonatas by Frederick Delius with Wanda Wiłkomirska in 1987. A review in Gramophone noted that their rendition was the best of this music until then, saying: "Both ... have the secret of preserving the music's heartbeat and keeping it moving forward, no matter how slow the tempo might be, and however flexibly they may phrase within a basic pulse."[10]
A recording of the first recital that Leontyne Price gave at Carnegie Hall on 28 February 1965 was issued first in 2002, and reviewed as exceptional.[12] The program included a variety of styles, mostly unfamiliar repertory: arias from operas by Handel, Giordano, Puccini and Cilea, songs by Johannes Brahms, Francis Poulenc, Samuel Barber and Lee Hoiby, spirituals and Gershwin's "Summertime". While a reviewer described the singer's part in detail, he summarily acknowledged that "Miss Price is sensitively accompanied throughout by David Garvey – a true musical partnership, this".[12]
Pianist David Garvey ... takes bows with opera star Leontyne Price. A graduate of Juilliard School in New York, professor David Garvey has been piano accompanist for opera star Leontyne Price since 1953.
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