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Jorge Bolet
Born in Havana, Cuba on November 15, 1914, Jorge Bolet was a classical virtuoso
pianist and educator. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, in 1937, he gave his first solo recital and won
the Naumburg Competition in New York. As part of the Army of Occupation, he was
sent to Japan, where he conducted the Japanese premiere of the opera The Mikado.
Jorge Bolet recorded Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 16 with the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra, which was released in 1953 on the Remington label. That same
year, he released Recital Favorite...
