page_title: David M. Arden
hierarchical_section_title: David M. Arden
caption_attribution_description: English: David Arden with Henryk Górecki at Kosciuszko Foundation concert.
context_page_description: David M. Arden is an American concert pianist whose performing and recording career has focused predominantly on contemporary and American classical repertoire, including premiere performances and first recordings of piano works by a number of notable contemporary composers, such as Henryk Górecki, Luciano Berio, Earle Brown, Carson Kievman and David Lang. The Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya named Arden's recording of her 12 Preludes for Piano as her preferred recording of that work.
  In addition to his performing career, Arden has been active as a music pedagogue, authoring the early-years piano instruction book Creative Music-Making at the Piano, establishing the New School of Piano in San Francisco, and founding Keys to Achievement Foundation, a nonprofit organization that places music keyboard instruction programs in US public schools.
context_section_description: David M. Arden (born September 6, 1949) is an American concert pianist whose performing and recording career has focused predominantly on contemporary and American classical repertoire, including premiere performances and first recordings of piano works by a number of notable contemporary composers, such as Henryk Górecki, Luciano Berio, Earle Brown, Carson Kievman and David Lang. The Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya named Arden's recording of her 12 Preludes for Piano as her preferred recording of that work.
  In addition to his performing career, Arden has been active as a music pedagogue, authoring the early-years piano instruction book Creative Music-Making at the Piano, establishing the New School of Piano in San Francisco, and founding Keys to Achievement Foundation, a nonprofit organization that places music keyboard instruction programs in US public schools.
caption: David Arden (rt.) with Henryk Górecki at Kosciuszko Foundation concert New York City
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