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Harvey Wedeen is a renowned Israeli pianist who has been performing for over 70 years. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 23, 1927. He began playing the piano at the age of five and was soon performing in public. He studied at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and later at the Juilliard School in New York. Wedeen has performed with some of the world's leading orchestras, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. He has also performed in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout the world. Wedeen has received numerous awards and honors, including the Israel Prize in Music in 1998, the Wolf Prize in Music in 2000, and the Israel Music Prize in 2004. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science. Wedeen is currently 96 years old. He is married to his wife, Miriam, and they have two children. He is estimated to have a net worth of over $1 million.

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Age 97 years old
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Born 23 March, 1927
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2011

Harvey Wedeen was the husband of American violinist and string teacher Helen Kwalwasser. In 2011, they together received the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, one of the oldest musical societies in the U.S. One of their two daughters, Lisa Wedeen, is the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College and co-director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at The University of Chicago.

1927

Harvey D. Wedeen (March 23rd, 1927 - March 13th, 2015) was an American classical pianist and piano teacher. He served as the chair of the keyboard department at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia for 51 years until 2012. Wedeen's early musical training includes piano studies with renowned French pianists Robert Casadesus and Gaby Casadesus, as well as music theory and composition studies with legendary French composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher Nadia Boulanger. After receiving a degree in French literature at Columbia University, he studied under the tutelage of Adele Marcus at the Juilliard School, obtaining a master's degree in piano performance in 1951. Wedeen began to teach at Temple University in 1964, and he played a vital role in establishing and developing the performance, pedagogy, and early music programs at the keyboard department at Temple. Musicians he recruited to the keyboard department include classical pianists Lambert Orkis, Alexander Fiorillo, and harpsichordist and early music scholar Joyce Lindorff. He retired in 2012 and continued to teach shortly before his death. His notable students include Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, American pianist Charles Abramovic, Durch/Israeli pianist and early keyboard performer Michael Tsalka, Canadian pianist Marc Durand, and Italian-American pianist Robert Durso.