This is a photograph of me, Dan Mizrahy, at the age of 24, playing the piano in an educational concert at Dalles Hall in Bucharest, on 21st March 1950.
I'm a pianist, a teacher, a composer, a member of the Union of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists. I loved to play and I have always found pleasure in playing. I loved the stage and respected it. From 1946, I gave numerous recitals and concerts as a soloist of the local philharmonics, playing Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Gershwin. I went on tours to Italy, the US, and Israel. A promoter of Gershwin, I was the first to introduce the entire work of the American composer to the Romanian public; in 2002, the 'Electrecord' Recording Company launched a double CD featuring my performance of Gershwin.
As a teacher, I was a founding member of the first secondary music school in the country, today’s 'Dinu Lipatti' High School in Bucharest. I taught at the People's School of Performing Arts from 1960-1999, and I was an associated professor at the National Music University in Bucharest in 2000. I mainly composed vocal music: lieder, romances, light music, choruses; most of my works were recorded by the National Radio Broadcasting Company. I wrote an autobiographical book entitled 'That’s How It Was', which is due to be published by the Hasefer Publishing Company in the fall of 2005.
