Michael Chertock

Assistant Professor of Piano
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
P0 Box 210003
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003
telephone: 5l3-556-9523
fax: 513-556-9641
Michael.Chertock@uc.edu

Michael Chertock has performed in more than 100 orchestral appearances in the United States, Canada and Europe. His concerts have included performances with l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, the Boston Pops, Toronto Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Cleveland's Blossom Music Festival, Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras, and the Indianapolis Symphony. He recently made his Carnegie Hall debut in a recital with clarinetist Ricardo Morales, with whom he has recorded an album of French music. Mr. Chertock has toured Asia with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, and violinist Alyssa Park.

Professor Chertock has recorded several albums of contemporary American piano music on various independent record labels, and in 1994 he released his first CD on the Telarc label, a collection of piano music from movies entitled Cinematic Piano. Telarc released Chertock's second recording, Palace in the Winds, in 1997.

Mr. Chertock's credits include the 1991 Cincinnati premiere of the recently discovered Third Piano Concerto by Franz Liszt, the Boston premiere of the Leroy Anderson Piano Concerto in 1993 under the direction of Erich Kunzel, and the Cincinnati premiere of the Lutoslawski Piano Concerto in l996. In New York City in 1994 he performed, with pianist Frank Weinstock and the Percussion Group Cincinnati, the world premiere of Notta Sonata by Jonathan Kramer.

Mr. Chertock first performed in public at the age of 11, and when he was 14 he performed on live television in Guam. At 17 he performed the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 with Andrew Litton and the Arlington Symphony Orchestra. He holds a M.M. degree from the College-Conservatory of Music where he studied with Frank Weinstock. He has garnered numerous awards at major competitions, among them the top prize in the 1989 Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition (Brahms Division) and the grand prize in the 1993 St. Charles International Piano Competition. He also shared the silver medal in the 1991 World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association.

 From l996-1998 Mr. Chertock was a member of the piano faculty at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He joined the CCM piano faculty in 2004.