Acclaimed for the heartfelt intensity of his playing, pianist Joseph Kalichstein enthralled audiences throughout the United States and Europe, winning equal praise as orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Kalichstein was a founding member of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson piano trio, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2017. Mr. Kalichstein was also a frequent guest pianist with the world’s most beloved string quartets, including the Guarneri and the Emerson. He served as the Chamber Music Advisor to the Kennedy Center and was the Artistic Director of the Center’s Fortas Chamber Music Concerts. He held the inaugural Chamber Music Chair at the Juilliard School, where he also had a limited class for advanced piano students. Born in Tel Aviv, he came to the United States in 1962. His principal teachers included Joshua Shor in Israel and Edward Steuermann and Ilona Kabos at Juilliard. Prior to winning the 1969 Leventritt Award, he won the Young Concert Artists Auditions, and as a result he gave a heralded New York recital debut, followed by an invitation from Leonard Bernstein to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the New York Philharmonic in a nationally televised concert on CBS.