2:10 - Louisiana: Louis Moreau Gottschalk 2:56 - Indiana: Jonathan Biss 3:11 - New Jersey: Seymour Bernstein 3:29 - Colorado: John Browning 4:03 - Ohio: Art Tatum 4:55 - California: Leon Fleisher 5:39 - South Dakota: Abby Whiteside 6:01 - Alabama: Julian Martin 6:18 - Maine: Henry Kramer 6:35 - Illinois: Rosalyn Tureck 7:25 - Rhode Island: Wendy Carlos 7:45 - Connecticut: Charles Ives 8:36 - Virginia: Bruce Hornsby 9:12 - Florida: Michelle Cann 9:21 - Arkansas: Florence Price 10:08 - Delaware: Matthew Shipp 10:22 - Maryland: Sara Davis Buechner 11:02 - New Hampshire: Amy Beach 11:43 - Utah: Desirae Brown, Deondra Brown, Gregory Brown, Melody Brown and Ryan Brown 12:01 - Nebraska: Roger Williams 12:22 - Nevada: Władziu Valentino Liberace 12:41 - Kansas: Stan Kenton 12:57 - Minnesota: Kenneth Broberg 13:10 - Massachusetts: Leonard Bernstein 13:15 - Georgia: Mary Lou Williams (the state, not the country) 13:40 - Oregon: Thomas Lauderdale 13:54 - Idaho: La Monte Young 14:13 - West Virginia: George Crumb 14:55 - Puerto Rico: Jesús María Sanromá 15:18 - Oklahoma: Louis Wayne Ballard 15:44 - Missouri: Dominic Cheli 15:59 - Wisconsin: Lynne Arriale 16:20 - Alaska: Susan Wingrove-Reed 16:40 - Pennsylvania: Keith Jarrett (Byron Janis is good too) 17:03 - South Carolina: Eskew Reeder "Esquerita" 17:22 - North Dakota: Frank Scott 17:42 - New Mexico: John Lewis (the pianist, not the department store) 17:52 - Mississippi: Hank Jones 18:50 - New York: Garrick Ohlsson 19:33 - Michigan: Geri Allen 19:45 - Kentucky: Bobbe Gorin "Beegie" Adair 20:01 - Wyoming: Richard Kermode 20:10 - Washington: Charlie Albright 20:25 - Arizona: Connor Chee 20:40 - District of Columbia: Sarah Cahill 20:56 - Vermont: Adam Tendler 21:11 - Iowa: Bruce Brubaker 21:30 - North Carolina: Nina Simone 22:08 - Montana: Nelita True 22:22 - Tennessee: Hargus "Pig" Robbins 22:45 - Hawaii: Betty Loo Taylor 22:55 - Texas: Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn

I think I would have chosen Murray Perahia for New York. If given the choice to go to either an Ohlsson concert or to see Perahia, I would pay to see Perahia.

Watching from Nigeria. Always a big follower of classical music and tonebase piano. Love you all

I think Earl Wild or Byron Janis deserves the mention for Pennsylvania over Keith Jarret.

I'd love to see a follow up video with the "best pianist" from every EU country 🙂

Thelonious Monk deserves a spot. Such a unique way of interpreting the piano

Appreciate Leon Fleisher!

You got Georgia right - Mary Lou Williams !

Nice video!

Weird Al Yankovic is back! Seriously, good, informative video, and thanks for explaining why the title is what you chose. It made the rest of the video feel less arbitrary.

Pennsylvania -Earl Wild

I love Seymore Bernstein but over Bill Evans? And Garrick is great and genius, but Duke Ellington had a bigger impact on piano.

Dale gribble sighting ☝️

I really believe Fats Waller should have been the best pianist from New York.

You omitted the great pianist Earl Wild (1915-2010), born in Pittsburgh, PA. Read his Wikipedia page. He played for five US presidents. On YT you can hear him play his arrangements of some Rachmaninoff and Gershwin songs, as well as his recordings of Liszt's "Reminiscences of Robert le Diable" and the Rachmaninoff piano concerti.

I vote Cecil Taylor for New York!

I would definitely take a video all about Gottschalk. This was such a great video though - fun to learn a tidbit about the pianists you chose and fun to see how many I had heard of!!

Watching from Ukraine. Thanks for an incredible cascade of glimpses of American pianism. Perhaps for me as a person who was largely introduced to American musical tradition by Rhapsody in Blue, the New York choise was a little bit surprising, but at the end it is all the game of preferences)

I come from the "state" of Poland, and we had some quite decent pianists... Chopin, Paderewski, Rubinstein, Mikuli, Tausig, Friedman, Hofmann, Koczalski, Michałowski, Rosenthal, Ekier, Horszowski, Szpilman, Czerny-Stefańska, Harasiewicz, Zimerman, Blechacz, Anderszewski, Możdżer.

Scott Joplin ? For Texas ?

I'm glad there was even a passing mention of MacDowell (11:09), who has had the strange privilege of being my favorite composer for about six years. His music is just as original as any of the major European romantics when performed by a professional. (Think Van Cliburn's interpretation of MacDowell's 2nd Concerto, which will forever be among his best recordings. Oh, and I see Cliburn got a mention as well at 23:05. Bravo!) Leave it to an amateur and it sounds just-well, not very good. Greetings from Michigan.

Thank you for mentioning Puerto Rico and Jesús María Sanromá!

It’s a bit unfair to have Liberace for Nevada when other composers were included for states that they had little connection to outside of their birth. Liberace learned the piano in Wisconsin and was heavily inspired by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, whom he saw perform at the Pabst Theater in his hometown of Milwaukee in the late 20s. He debuted with the Chicago Symphony, under Frederick Stock, at the Pabst in 1940.

Ontario: Glenn Gould Quebec: Oscar Peterson Alberta: Jan Lisiecki BC: Manitoba: Nova Scotia: … ?

Great list. I've been lucky enough to meet several of the pianists you featured... Biss, Fleisher, Bernstein, Jarrett and played for Tureck in a masterclass. Nelita True was a personal friend for 30+ years... I'm so glad you included her. I'm in Michigan and while we have many great pianists here most are from elsewhere. For me, the best pianist from Michigan would have to be someone I know and studied with for a short time and that's Penelope Crawford.

I wonder what would be a list for Canada. Glenn Gould for Ontario, obviously, and Oscar Peterson for Quebec (or Hamelin?). I would love to discover the one from other provinces.

Nice pull for La Monte Young for Idaho! My home town Boise, Idaho claims Gene Harris, even though Gene was born in Michigan.

There a large number of excellent jazz and classical pianists presently residing in Colorado. I don't know where they were born.

Can someone tell me who from Illinois got named

California -> Ruth Slenczynska

Listening from Italy, where the piano was invented.

Liberace was from Wisconsin!

Bernstein (from MA) was more a conductor than a pianist, so I would swap him out for Robert D. Levin.

1:45 scotland!!!

Who’s the best pianist from your home state?

Kentucky has Sylvia Kersenbaum. While she was born in Argentina, she's been in Kentucky for over 40 years. Contemporary of Argerich, studied with the same teacher, was recognized by EMI as having one of the best 100 recordings of the century. Georgia was wrong too. Surely that's got to be Virsaladze 😊.

Is this list based on where they were born, or resided? I think it's supposed to be born, but Liberace is from Wisconsin, not Nevada. I think he lived in Las Vegas. If it's resided, Rubinstein lived in Beverly Hills and would easily be the greatest pianist who lived in California. (Some might say Rachmaninoff by that criteria, but I would not). I like Ohlsson a lot, but Perahia would have to be a greater pianist from New York. Many great ones from Pennsylvania: Wild, Susan Starr, Byron Janis…

Natalie Hinderas! You left out Ohio's Natalie Hinderas. A gorgeous pianist

Love the concept but the video is too concise, you should write a book

Interesting project, and of course there is classical culture in the US. To name just one example, the music of Mahler may not have survived antisemitism the way it has without the enthusiasm of American music lovers, American Mahler societies etc.

This list better be diverse, equitable, and inclusive or I'm going to have a fit!!!!

This is ridiculous, but you got my click, bravo.

Interesting - but silly. One pianist per state is click bait but dumb. Earl Wild from PA gets no mention. William Kapell NY no mention. Michael Tilson Thomas CA, Murray Perahia NY, Stephen Kovacevich CA, Emmet Cohen FL, Leonard Pennario NY, George Gershwin NY, Julius Katchen NJ..and on and on and on and on. Like I say - your list is fun but silly.

i received lessons from henry kramer for a year and he was one of the worst teachers i ever had. he could not control his temper, often crossing boundaries with huge outburst, lobbing insults and making students uncomfortable. He formally apologized on several occasions but continued to be a horses ass. Being a great pianist (he is) does not make you a great educator and he is the perfect example. His entire studio was uncomfortable, we took our concern to admin and they did nothing (though he left after a year), and when he taught doctoral keyboard lit it had no direction whatsoever, he gave us a playlist of 3 hours of music and just told us to memorize it. This is my own personal experience, and i wouldn't recommend him to anyone.

Why in the world wouldn't you edit them alphabetically by state name, so viewers can "find" their state. Seems you mixed the states up to "force" us to watch the whole thing.

Meh