Emile Naoumoff, Professor on the artist piano faculty of the Jacobs School, has been likened to both Horowitz and Rubinstein, displaying, as one critic remarked, the fire of the former and the poetry of the latter. A child prodigy, he took up piano at 5 and composition at 6, studying for a decade with the great Nadia Boulanger and the distinguished musicians in her circle while concurrently pursuing studies at the Paris Conservatoire, where he was later appointed professor.
Naoumoff has been a featured soloist with many of the world’s premier orchestras, and has collaborated with eminent musicians including Jean-Pierre Rampal, Gerard Souzay, Yo-Yo Ma, Gary Hoffman, Dominique de Williencourt and the Fine Arts Qt. In recent years he has been a guest at numerous summer festivals and residencies in the U.S. and abroad. He is an avid composer of French melodies, and greatly admired for his mastery in transcribing music for the piano.