Researching Joseph Villa
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 20 people with the Villa surname? In that year Villa was ranked number 3559 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Joseph means "God shall add (another son)" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Joseph Villa on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Joseph Villa and the Villa Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 33421 people with the Villa surname in the USA? Villa is ranked number 146 for popularity in the USA. |
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Joseph Villa
Joseph Emil Villa (August 9, 1948 – April 13, 1995) was an American pianist.
He was born in Garfield, New Jersey. He studied at the Juilliard School under Sascha Gorodnitzki and made his recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in 1972 with and all Liszt program. Many of his public appearances were as an accompanist for artists like soprano Jessye Norman and violinist Eugene Fodor, and his high reputation rests on a small number of recordings, one of which was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque in 1978. Joseph specialized in the Romantic repertory.
He made his first public appearance at Juilliard at the age of ten. By the age of 18, he was touring extensively, accompanying violinist Joseph Fuchs. He won the 1968 Kosciuszko Foundation's annual Chopin Competition, as well as Liszts's Second Piano Concerto in A Major competition with the Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall in 1970. In 1970, he appeared on the Piano Seminar series for the Juilliard Institute of Special Studies. Villa was also invited by Gyorgy Cziffra to perform at the Festival de la Chaise Dieu in France. On television, he's played programs such as CBC's Camera Three and NBC's Today Show. He worked at the University of Connecticut. Much of his praise comes from that of Arthur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau, Alicia de Larrocha, and André Previn.
Villa died on April 13, 1995, aged 46, at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in Greenwich Village. The cause was AIDS, said Steven Gray, his companion.
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