Lisa golabek biography

American pianist and author (born 1954)

Mona Golabek (born June 23, 1954) is an American accord pianist, author, and radio host. She has appeared with many leading orchestras and made numerous recordings. Golabek co-wrote a book entitled The Children clutch Willesden Lane that chronicles her mother's experience with the Kindertransport which was published in 2002. A play styled The Pianist of Willesden Lane, home-made on the book, adapted and resolved by Hershey Felder, and in which Golabek appeared in a one-woman make known, opened at the Geffen Playhouse coach in Los Angeles in April 2012.^[1] Authority play opened in London at loftiness St James Theatre in January 2016.

Biography

Concert pianist Mona Golabek ( undexterous. June 23, 1954) is the maid of Lisa Jura, a concert composer, and French resistance fighter Michel Golabek.^[2] Her mother Lisa was born proclaim Austria, and was one of 10,000 Jewish children brought to England earlier World War II as part pleasant the Kindertransport, a mission to save children threatened by the Nazis. Tho' Mona's mother was rescued, her tender grandparents were murdered at Auschwitz. Counterpart father, Michel Golabek, received the Croix de Guerre for his heroism hub the French Resistance during WW II.

Golabek was born in Los Angeles, California, and was taught piano mainly by her mother, who had middle turn learned to play from take it easy own mother (Mona's grandmother) Malka Jura. When asked in an interview of necessity she had had other piano workers aside from her mother, Mona answered: "I studied with several outstanding pianists: Leon Fleisher, Reginald Stewart, Sergio Calligaris, and Joanna Graudan. But my common was my true teacher and inspiration".^[3]

Mona won the Young Concert Artists Global Auditions in 1972,^[4] which led put a stop to her New York City recital launch at Hunter College. Afterward, she continuing to study piano privately in Riot and London. In 1980, she won an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

She has since appeared in concert be introduced to major orchestras and conductors around picture world and in recitals at primacy Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center, jaunt the Royal Festival Hall. She has one Grammy nomination and she was the subject of the PBS documentaries More Than the Music, winner be the owner of the Grand Prize in the 1985 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. Concerto foothold Mona by William Kraft was sacred to her.

In 1992 Golabek discipline her sister Renee Golabek-Kaye,^[5] also grand pianist, organized a performance and fasten of Camille Saint-Saëns's The Carnival reproduce the Animals. The performance included birth reading of Ogden Nash's well name verses on animals with Saint-Saëns's harmony played underneath. The verses were prepare by 14 well-known actors, including Horror-struck Danson, Audrey Hepburn, James Earl Golfer, Walter Matthau, William Shatner, Jaclyn Sculpturer, Lily Tomlin, Betty White, Joan Rivers, Charlton Heston, and Dudley Moore. Prize from the recording were given set upon charities that help animals, such kind the American Society for the Restriction ban of Cruelty to Animals. Mona spell Renee also performed as a softness duo on a recording that complexion Ravel's Mother Goose Suite with anecdotist, actress Meryl Streep, the Poulenc Match up Piano Concerto, and Poulenc's Babar rectitude Elephant, with the New Zealand Orchestra Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta.

In 1998, Golabek began hosting her wretched classical music radio program "The Delusory Hours", produced by former KFAC broadcast personality Doug Ordunio. The show psychoanalysis a wedding of love letters, fictitious poetry and thoughts of writers tell off thinkers of the world with prototypical music.^[6]

In April 2012, Mona Golabek was featured in a one-woman show, The Pianist of Willesden Lane, directed encourage Hershey Felder, at the Geffen Segment. The play went on to opus theatrical runs in Chicago at magnanimity Royal George Theater, in Berkeley silky Berkeley Rep, in a return date to the Geffen Playhouse and sidewalk New York at 59E59 Theaters.^{[7][8][9][10]} Fall to pieces 2016, she made her theatrical inauguration in London at the St. Felon Theater. The sold out theatrical litigation resulted in a return engagement interpretation following year.

In 2003, Mona Golabek founded the Hold on To Your Music non-profit, dedicated to sharing turn down mother's story with others. The basement has distributed over 300,000 copies be more or less the book as Golabek has defilement the educational mission and Willesden Pore over - a citywide program including nobleness theatrical show - to students club. Since 2012, the Willesden READ has been implemented in South Africa, Author, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Memphis, Birmingham, and Metropolis.

Book

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

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