André Watts
Biography
André Watts (June 20, 1946 – July 12, 2023) was an American classical pianist. Over the six decades of his career, Watts performed as soloist with every major American orchestra and most of the world's finest orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, and London Symphony Orchestra. Watts recorded a variety of repertoire, concentrating on Romantic era composers such as Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, but also including George Gershwin. In 2020, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He won a Grammy Award for Best New Classical Artist in 1964. Watts was also on the faculty at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
263 releases · 41 albums · active 1963–2023
- Performance · 301
- Other credits · 19
Studios: Philharmonic Hall, New York · Manhattan Center · Carnegie Hall · American Academy Of Arts And Letters
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Liszt
- Tchaikovsky
- Brahms
- Franz Liszt
- Beethoven
- Watts
- Frédéric Chopin