Marc Edward Neikrug (born September 24, 1946) is a contemporary American composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in New York City, the son of cellists George Neikrug and Olga Zundel. He is best known for a Piano Concerto (1966), the theater piece ''Through Roses'' (1980), and the opera ''Los Alamos'' (1988). Among his notable recent compositions are the orchestral song cycle '' Healing Ceremony'' (2010), his Concerto for Orchestra (2012), a

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(2013), and the '' Canta-Concerto'' (2014). He studied with

Giselher Klebe Giselher Wolfgang Klebe (28 June 19255 October 2009) was a German composer, and an academic teacher. He composed more than 140 works, among them 14 operas, all based on literary works, eight symphonies, 15 solo concerts, chamber music, piano wor ...

at the

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from 1964 to 1968, and composition at

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( M.M., 1971). In 1978 he was appointed as consultant on contemporary music to the

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. Since the late 1990s he has been artistic director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. He is also known for collaborations with violinist

Pinchas Zukerman Pinchas Zukerman ( he, פנחס צוקרמן, born 16 July 1948) is an Israeli-American violinist, violist and conductor. Life and career Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv, to Jewish parents and Holocaust survivors Yehuda and Miriam Lieberman Zuk ...

Selected recordings

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto ...

, ''Sonata N 1 in D minor for violin and piano,'' Cèsar Franck, Sonata in A for violin and piano,

, violin, Marc Neikrug, piano. CD Philips 1984.

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