Focus on Piano
Literature
Two Great Romantics:
Mendelssohn and Schumann
Richard Kogan
piano
Lecture-Recital
“Schumann,
Bipolar Disorder,
and the Creative Process”
Friday, June 4, 2010
8:00 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
In the course of this lecture-recital Dr. Kogan will perform numerous excerpts from the
Schumann piano repertoire, including Carnaval in its entirety.
Carnaval: Scènes mignonnes sur quatre notes, Op. 9 (1834-35) Robert Schumann
Préambule (1810-1856)
Pierrot
Arlequin
Valse noble
Eusebius
Florestan
Coquette
Replique
Papillons
A. S. C. H. _ S. C. H. A. (Lettres dansantes)
Chiarina
Chopin
Estrella
Reconnaissance
Pantalon et Colombine
Valse allemande
Paganini
Aveu
Promenade
Pause
Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins
Richard Kogan has a distinguished career both as a concert pianist and as a psychiatrist.
He has been praised for his "eloquent, compelling, and exquisite playing" by the New York
Times, and the Boston Globe wrote that "Kogan has somehow managed to excel at the
world's two most demanding professions."
Dr. Kogan has gained renown for his lecture/recitals that explore the role of music in
healing and the influence of psychological forces and psychiatric illness on the creative
output of composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, George
Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. He has given these presentations at music festivals,
concert series, medical conferences, and scholarly symposia throughout the world. He
performed Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and delivered an address entitled "The Power of
Music in Healing Mind and Body" at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland. Dr. Kogan has recorded the DVD "Music and the Mind : The Life and Works
of Robert Schumann" for Yamaha/Touchstar Productions. In a review of this DVD, Yo Yo
Ma wrote : "I came away from this extraordinary lecture and performance deeply moved by
a fascinating presentation that only Dr. Kogan, psychiatrist and concert pianist, can
deliver...Through a unique combination of brilliant psychiatric insights and superb
musicianship, my musical colleague Richard Kogan presents a rich multidimensional profile
revealing some of the most intimate sources of Robert Schumann's enormous creativity,
imagination and artistry." Dr. Kogan has won numerous honors including the Concert
Artists Guild Award and first prize in the Chopin Competition of the Kosciuszko Foundation
Dr. Kogan is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music Pre-college (piano studies with
Nadia Reisenberg), Harvard College, and Harvard Medical School. He completed a
psychiatry residency and academic fellowship at NYU. He has a private practice of
psychiatry in New York City and is affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College as Co-
Director of its Human Sexuality Program. He is also Co-Chairman of the recently
established Weill Cornell Music/Medicine Initiative.
