Howard Karp

Howard Karp retired in Spring 2000 as Professor of Music from the University of Wisconsin after a forty-six-year college teaching career that earlier saw him hold positions at the Universities of Illinois and Kentucky. He has performed throughout the United States, in China and in Europe, including concerto performances with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Amsterdam Philharmonic. His recordings include the two Bloch piano quintets with the Pro Arte Quartet for Laurel Records.

Mr. Karp is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and the Juilliard School of Music. He attended the Vienna Academy of Music as a Fulbright Scholar. His teachers were Jack Radunsky, Rosina Lhevinne, and Wilhelm Kempff, with whom he pursued Beethoven studies. Mr. Karp’s students hold college teaching positions in the United States and Asia.