Thomas Lorango

Thomas Lorango, American pianist, was born on June 8, 1959, in Buffalo, New York. He died of AIDS on December 30, 1992 in New York City.

Life

Lorango studied piano at the Curtis Institute of Music, where his teachers included Leon Fleischer, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Seymour Lipkin. He won prizes including the Leventritt Foundation Award, a Young Recitalist's Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the first piano prize at the 1979 G.B. Dealy Awards Competition and the 1985 First Prize in the Liederkranz of [the City of New York|Liederkranz Foundation] Competition.
Lorango made his debut at age 16 performing Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He again performed with that orchestra two years later as soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 3 of Béla Bartók. He also performed with the Dallas Symphony, the St. [Louis Symphony] and the Buffalo Philharmonic and gave solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall, Coolidge Auditorium at the US Library of Congress, and other halls in the United States and Europe. A participant in the Marlboro Music Festival, Lorango toured with Music from Marlboro.

Lorango appeared on three compact disc recordings issued by the Newport Classic label:
NCD 60034, Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, performed on an 1871 Streicher piano with the New Brandenburg Collegium under Anthony Newman. According to the label, this recording was the first of the concerto with period instruments.
NCD 60108, Thomas Lorango: The Debut Album
NCD 60133, ''Richard Wagner: Original Piano Works''