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Distinguished Professor Menahem Pressler has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the North Carolina School of the Arts.

He has received four Grammy Award nominations and a lifetime achievement award from Gramophone magazine. Professor Pressler was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, received the German Critics "Ehrenurkunde" award (in recognition of 40 years of setting the standard by which chamber music is measured); received the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal of Merit for lifetime achievement in music; won the Record of the Year Award in England; was honored as part of the Ensemble of the Year by Musical America in 1997; won the German Recording Award; and was first prize winner of the Debussy Competition. He served as juror at the Van Cliburn and Queen Elisabeth competitions.

He has taught master classes in Germany, France, Canada, and Argentina, and is internationally active as a soloist and chamber musician. Professor Pressler has performed solo concerts with the Chicago Symphony and other orchestras.

He is co-founder and continuing member of the Beaux Arts Trio and has recorded almost the entire chamber literature with piano for Philips.

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