Feinberg toured several times with
The Cleveland Orchestra and
Christoph von Dohnanyi, first performing Shulamit Ran's Concert Piece (including an appearance in
Carnegie Hall). He also performed the
Brahms Second Piano Concerto on tour with The Cleveland Orchestra and participated in a collaboration with The Cleveland Orchestra which featured the world premiere of the recently discovered Emerson Concerto by composer
Charles Ives (performed also in London, Paris, and Amsterdam), and subsequently recorded the work. He was featured on opening night of the
San Francisco Symphony's Maverick Festival, at the
New Horizons Festival of the
New York Philharmonic, the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the American Composers Orchestra, the 92nd Street Y's
Berio Sequenza Marathon, the first performance of
John Adams'
Nixon in China for the Guggenheim's Works in Progress Series, and Carnegie Hall's Birthday celebration of the music of
George Gershwin with Dick Hyman. Feinberg has performed as a soloist with the
Chicago Symphony, The
Cleveland Orchestra, the
New York Philharmonic, the
London Philharmonia, the
Montreal Symphony, the
Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish, the American Symphony Orchestra, the
St. Louis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the
New World Symphony, and many others. Feinberg has recorded four solo CDs for London/Decca that survey American music: The American Romantic, The American Virtuoso, The American Innovator, and Fascinatin' Rhythm—American Syncopation. He has received
Grammy Nominations for recordings of the Babbitt "Piano Concerto" (New World Records), Morton Feldman's "Palais di Mari", and Charles Wuorinen's "Capriccio", "Bagatelle", and "Third Sonata". He has additionally recorded piano concertos by
Mel Powell,
Andrew Imbrie,
Kamran Ince,
Paul Bowles,
Amy Beach,
Charles Ives,
Leo Ornstein,
Samuel Adler,
Don Gilles, and
Robert Helps, as well as a Decca CD of vocal works of Charles Ives with soprano
Susan Narucki and a recording of Morton Feldman's "Piano and Orchestra with
Michael Tilson Thomas and the
New World Symphony. He received his fourth Grammy nomination for "Best Instrumentalist with Orchestra" for his recording of the Amy Beach "Piano Concerto" with the Nashville Symphony (Naxos). Other recordings can be found on
New World Records,
CRI, Harmonia Mundi, Bridge, New Albion and
Naxos. He has received five
Grammy nominations throughout his career. Recent recital programs have highlighted his interest in bridging the old and the new; these include a program of
Bach and
Ustvolskaya, "Reconsidering Haydn" (works of
Haydn,
Schubert,
Weir and
Kagel), "Basically Bull", a program featuring works of
John Bull,
William Byrd,
Orlando Gibbons,
Thomas Morley, and
Charles Wuorinen. In recent years Mr. Feinberg has taken on work as a programmer and presenter. He has been the Artistic Advisor for the "Chautauqua Days" Festival in
Castine, Maine and Music Director of the
Monadnock Music Festival. He has acted as a programming consultant for the
Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society's American festival. He has put together programs of American music with himself and other American performers for the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg and for a series of four concerts in Moscow. Feinberg has also performed many times abroad. He has appeared as a concerto soloist at The Proms in England, with the Cleveland Orchestra in
Paris, with the Amsterdam Radio Orchestra in Holland, with the Montreal Symphony, and with the various BBC orchestras. He has given recitals at Wigmore Hall in
London, appeared at festivals in
Edinburgh,
Bath,
Huddersfield,
Geneva,
Budapest,
Berlin,
Brescia,
Bergamo, and
Tokyo. He was also the first pianist to have been invited by the Union of Soviet Composers to represent American contemporary music, an invitation which resulted in performances in both
Moscow and
Leningrad. Feinberg also has considerable experience as a teacher, and has taught at
SUNY Buffalo, The
Juilliard School,
Eastman School of Music,
Oberlin Conservatory,
Carnegie Mellon,
Duke, and
Princeton Universities. ==Early life==