AUSTRALIAN PIANIST'S BROADCASTS
Max Pirani Has Travelled Widely
| flaig broadcasts by Max Pirani filled into programmes already featuring Ignaz Friedman, listeners will enjoy a feast of first class piano playing. Pirani’s first recital will be given "from 3YA’s_ studio on November 11. This Australian pianist has travelled widely playing on the concert platform, broadcasting, and examining for the Royal Schools of Music. He was born in Melbourne-in 1898 and began to study music at an early age. He made his first public appearance at the age of 10. After three years’ study as a scholarship student at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, he went to London early in 1914. He studied with Max Vogrich in London and in New York. After a short period as pianistassistant to Leopold Auer in 1917, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces and served in France in 1918. In Australia in 1919-1920, he led a concert-tour with Leila Doubleday, violinist, and returned to England .in 1920, to settle in London, performing and teaching. In 1923, with Leila Doubleday and Charles Hambourg, he formed the Pirani Trio, which had a permanent place in English musical life until 1940. In 1925 he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Academy of Music as professor of. pianoforte and was awarded the degree of Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in 1932. His tours as Examiner for the Royal Schools of Music have taken him to Australia in 1927. In 1931 and 1937 he was in South Africa, in 1935 in India, and in 1940 Canada and New Zealand.
Between 1920 and 1940 he has been very active as a concert-pianist. He played throughout the British Isles, in Holland, Switzerland, Italy, and Scandinavia, in South Africa, India and Australia. He has broadcast regularly from BBC stations, and in South Africa, India, Finland, and Norway. He married Leila Doubleday in 1923 and has two children: Felix aged 12, and Gina aged 6, who with Mrs, Pirani are now in Christchurch,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 71, 1 November 1940, Page 12
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334AUSTRALIAN PIANIST'S BROADCASTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 71, 1 November 1940, Page 12
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