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Minuetta Kessler (Minuetta Shumiatcher) was born on 5 September, 1914 in Gomel, Russian Empire, is a Russian-born Canadian and later American musician and educator. Discover Minuetta Kessler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As Minuetta Shumiatcher
Occupation Composer, concert pianist, music teacher, author
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 5 September, 1914
Birthday 5 September
Birthplace Gomel, Russian Empire
Date of death 30 November, 2002
Died Place Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality Russia

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1914

Minuetta Shumiatcher Borek Kessler (September 5, 1914 – November 30, 2002) was a Russian-born Canadian and later American concert pianist, classical music composer, and educator.

A child prodigy, she performed her first composition at a recital at the age of 5 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and went on to study at the Juilliard School in New York City.

She composed hundreds of pieces, including music for piano, violin, voice, flute, clarinet and cello, as well as for chamber ensembles.

She performed all over Canada and in Boston and New York, including performances at Carnegie Hall and The Town Hall, and with the Boston Civic Symphony and the Boston Pops.

The New York Times called her "a rare phenomenon among the younger pianists of today – more musician than pianist".

She also taught musical composition to young children, creating and patenting a game called "Staftonia" for this purpose.

She was born Minuetta Shumiatcher in Gomel, Russia, the eldest child of Abraham Isaac Shumiatcher, a lawyer who attended the University of Alberta Faculty of Law and was appointed a Queen's Counsel, and his wife, Luba Lubinsky, a graduate of the University of Warsaw who worked as a tutor for children in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Her parents had moved to Calgary before her birth, but her mother was visiting her native country when Minuetta was born.

Her paternal grandfather, Judah Shumiatcher, is said to have brought the first Torah scroll to Calgary.

A paternal uncle, Morris Shumiatcher, founded SmithBilt Hats, which manufactured the famed white cowboy hats that became a symbol of Calgary.

She had a younger brother, Dr. Morris C. Shumiatcher, QC, who became a noted Canadian lawyer.

Minuetta was recognized as a child prodigy at the age of 5, when she performed her own composition in a piano recital held by the studio of John M. Williams and Shaylor Turner.

According to a reviewer, her performance was "one of the surprises of the evening", as she "played her own composition in a most expressive manner".

The following year, at age 6, she performed another original composition at the annual recital, which also featured her aunt, 10-year-old Bella Shumiatcher.

At the latter recital, a reviewer wrote, "The precocity of this six year old is surprising".

She went on to study piano under Gladys McKelvie Egbert in Calgary.

At the age of 15 she received a full scholarship to study at the Juilliard School in New York City, where she studied under Ernest Hutcheson and Ania Dorfmann.

She also studied composition under Ivan Langstroth at Juilliard.

1934

She graduated from Juilliard in 1934 and engaged in post-graduate studies until 1936, as well as taught piano at Juilliard for several years.

1940

She became a naturalized U.S. citizen around 1940.

1945

Kessler made her U.S. debut at The Town Hall in New York City in 1945.

She went on to perform more than 50 solo concert programs on WNYC.

She played at Carnegie Hall with the Boston Civic Symphony and with the Boston Pops.

1947

One of her most acclaimed compositions was the Alberta Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, which she premiered on CBC Radio in 1947 and went on to perform with orchestras across Canada and in Boston.

After the 1947 premiere of her Alberta Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, the L'Événement-Journal wrote that she "plays with a power rarely attained by women pianists".

1952

Kessler moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1952; the following year she and her second husband, Dr. Myer M. Kessler, relocated to Belmont, Massachusetts, where she lived the rest of her life.

She operated her own publishing company, Music Resources, from her home.

1960

She specialized in teaching musical composition to young children, creating and patenting a game called "Staftonia" (1960) for this purpose.

1962

In March 1962 she performed in a program featuring all of her own compositions at the Boston Conservatory of Music.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation featured her performances in its Distinguished Artists and Masters of the Keyboard series.

1970

In the late 1970s and early 1980s she published numerous composition books, including Savory Suite (1980), The Improper Grasshopper (1980), Cat 'n Mouse Tails (1981), Playful Squirrels (1981), A Day in the Park (1981), Jewish Easy Piano Pieces (1981), My Toys (1982), and Come to the Circus! (1984).

1975

In 1975 she performed the piece with the Century Calgary Symphony Orchestra in honor of Calgary's centennial celebrations.

The Boston Globe described her keyboard technique as "formidable" and The Christian Science Monitor praised her "dash and verve" and "ear for color".

Her 1975 reprisal of the Alberta Concerto with the Calgary Century Symphony Orchestra generated this review by the Calgary Albertan:

She also used a "simplified notational system" called "Dash-a-Notes" in her music primer, Piano Is My Name (1975).

1978

She was recorded playing her own compositions on "Music for Solo Instruments" (1978, AFKA SK-288) and "Childhood Cameos" (1981, AFKA SK-4663).

She continued to perform into her seventies.

Kessler composed hundreds of pieces, including music for piano, violin, voice, flute, clarinet and cello, as well as for chamber ensembles.

1998

She taught piano in her home in Belmont until 1998, when she began experiencing memory problems.

2019

"Minuetta Kessler is a most refined pianist and her own Alberta Concerto is in every sense a work of great magnitude. It is a kind of 19th-century romantic piece in four movements in which Kessler's hands were most effectively used. She played with authority, feeling and sensitivity."