About Edmund Arkus, Pianist

Edmund Arkus studied with an array of renowned teachers including
Rosina Lhévinne, Wolfgang Rose, and Leopold Mittman.  Mr. Arkus has performed for many years in the United States, Japan and England to high critical acclaim. He has been presented in solo recitals, as soloist with orchestras and he has collaborated in many chamber music concerts and sonata recitals. Mr. Arkus has also performed on radio in New York on WNYC, WFUV, WQXR, as well as live performances broadcast over National Public Radio from Washington DC, WGBH Boston, BBC radio in England, and NHK-TV in Japan.

Over the last fifteen years he has collaborated regularly with Keisuke Wakao, Assistant Principal Oboist of the Boston Symphony. Among the numerous concerts they have presented, Edmund and Mr. Wakao have performed together at Jordan Hall in Boston, at Opera City Recital Hall and Hillside Terrace Plaza Hall in Tokyo.

For the last ten years Edmund Arkus has performed chamber concerts with Mr. Wakao and members of the Boston Symphony, NHK Orchestra (Tokyo), Berlin Philharmonic and Orchestre de Paris in Tokyo, Hakodate, Osaka and Ogaki, Japan and South Korea, as well as in Cleveland, Ohio, the Berkshires and Boston, Massachusetts. Edmund was a piano double in Mozart in The Jungle from Amazon. 

 Edmund Arkus has also been sought out as a piano teacher for many years.  Along with his many private students, he has taught piano at Queens College Music Department and the Third Street Music School Settlement.  He also had the great opportunity to present many Master classes in Japan.