Anton Emil Kuerti, OC (born July 21, 1938) is an Austrian-born Canadian[1] pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor.
As a child, he immigrated to the United States and studied piano under Edward Goldman in Boston.
[2] Kuerti performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops Orchestra at age eleven.
He won the 1976 Juno Award for best classical recording for his album The Beethoven Sonatas, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, and has been nominated 7 times.
[7] Kuerti is the artistic director emeritus of Mooredale Concerts, and of the Mooredale Youth Orchestras, a small Toronto-based set of three orchestras for children and teen-agers founded by his late wife, cellist Kristine Bogyo.
A longtime peace activist, Kuerti signed a tax resistance vow in 1966 to protest the Vietnam War[10] and was registered as a conscientious objector.