On Wednesday, April 2, 2003 at 11:35:44 AM UTC-8, Clovis Lark wrote:
> I regret to inform all of the recent death of the pianist Leonard
> Hokanson, who died on 21 March in Bloomington following a battle with
> pancreatic cancer. Mr. Hokanson will most likely be rembered by
> collectors for his extensive discography of lieder with the late Hermann
> Prey, a discography that spanned the entire 19th century lieder
> repertoire.
> Leonard Hokanson had an extensive European career earning him acclaim as a
> recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. He was a member of the faculty
> of the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington and was a
> permanent guest professor at the Tokyo College of Music. At Indiana
> University, he was a tireless teacher and advocate for the piano as a
> collaborative instrument in both lieder and chamber music.
> One of the last pupils of Artur Schnabel, he also studied with Karl-Ulrich
> Schnabel, Claude Frank and Julian DeGray. Hokanson lived for much of his
> professional life in Germany and Austria. Winner of the Steinway Prize of
> Boston and a prizewinner in the International Busoni Competition in
> Bolzano, Italy, he performed at the festivals of Aldeburgh, Berlin,
> Echternach, Lucerne, Prague, Ravinia, Salzburg, Schleswig-Holstein,
> Tanglewood and Vienna, among others. He performed as soloist with the
> Philadelphia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic,
> Vienna Symphony and other major orchestras.
>
> He was a founding member of the Odeon Trio and resident pianist for Bay
> Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine. He was a guest artist with the
> Vermeer Quartet, the Fine Arts Quartet, the Ensemble Villa Musica and the
> Wind Soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic, and he frequently performed duo
> recitals with violinist Miriam Fried, clarinetist James Campbell, and horn
> player Hermann Baumann. As a collaborator in song recitals, he played with
> Martina Arroyo, Grace Bumbry, Edith Mathis, Edda Moser, Hermann Prey and
> other renowned artists.
>
> A prolific recording artist, his recordings in the last few years
> include the complete piano works of Walter Piston, Haydn sonatas, Mozart
> concertos, Brahms intermezzi, Schubert's complete works for violin and
> piano with Edith Peinemann, Brahms' sonatas for clarinet and piano with
> James Campbell, Beethoven's complete songs with Hermann Prey and Pamela
> Coburn, and previously unrecorded early works of Schubert. He recorded for
> the Bayer, Capriccio, Denon, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Erato, Marquis,
> MDG, Naxos, Northeastern, Philips, RCA and Sony labels.
>
> He is survived by his wife Rona Hokanson.

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