# Peter Basquin

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'''Peter Basquin''' is an American [pianist](/source/pianist) and a winner of the [Montreal International Music Competition](/source/Montreal_International_Music_Competition). He attended both [Carleton College](/source/Carleton_College) and [Manhattan School of Music](/source/Manhattan_School_of_Music) where his teachers were [Dora Zaslavsky](/source/Dora_Zaslavsky) and William Nelson. He was the pianist of the [American Composers Orchestra](/source/American_Composers_Orchestra) and is Professor Emeritus at the [Hunter College](/source/Hunter_College).

He had solo appearances at the [American](/source/American_Symphony_Orchestra) and [Boston Symphony Orchestra](/source/Boston_Symphony_Orchestra)s as well as [Minnesota](/source/Minnesota_Orchestra), the [Westchester Philharmonic](/source/Westchester_Philharmonic) and the [Hunter Symphony](/source/Hunter_Symphony). His conductors during those times were [Dennis Russell Davies](/source/Dennis_Russell_Davies), [Paul Lustig Dunkel](/source/Paul_Lustig_Dunkel), [Michael Tilson Thomas](/source/Michael_Tilson_Thomas), and [Gunther Schuller](/source/Gunther_Schuller) among others. He also collaborated with [Lewis Kaplan](/source/Lewis_Kaplan), [Jaime Laredo](/source/Jaime_Laredo), [Charles Neidich](/source/Charles_Neidich), [Nathaniel Rosen](/source/Nathaniel_Rosen), [Jacques Thibaud Trio](/source/Jacques_Thibaud_Trio), and [Frederick Zlotkin](/source/Frederick_Zlotkin) and played with [Cassatt Quartet](/source/Cassatt_Quartet).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bowdoinfestival.org/ai_peter_basquin.php|title=Peter Basquin, Piano|publisher=[Bowdoin International Music Festival](/source/Bowdoin_International_Music_Festival)|accessdate=February 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212063330/http://bowdoinfestival.org/ai_peter_basquin.php|archive-date=December 12, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1978 he recorded [Marga Richter](/source/Marga_Richter)'s 1954 ''Sonata'' which was published by [Grenadilla Records](/source/Grenadilla_Records) the same year. (Richter's Sonata was first recorded in 1956 by [Menahem Pressler](/source/Menahem_Pressler) for MGM recordings.) <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zlfUz0xROOAC&dq=Peter+Basquin&pg=PA34|author=Sharon Mirchandani|title=Marga Richter|year=2012|publisher=[Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois](/source/Board_of_Trustees_of_the_University_of_Illinois)|page=34|isbn=978-0-252-07891-0}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://pianolessons.co.uk/ Piano Lesson]

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