Karl Georg Kohn (August 1, 1926 – November 18, 2024) was an Austrian-born American composer, teacher and pianist.
Kohn began playing the piano as a child in Vienna; after he emigrated to the United States at the age of 13, he continued his education at the New York College of Music (1940–1944)[1] and at Harvard (B.A., M.A.)
[3] His students at Pomona included Douglas Leedy, David Noon, Nancy Raabe (Miller), and Susan Morton Blaustein as well as, privately, Frank Zappa[4] and John McGuire.
With his wife, Margaret Kohn, he had a long career as a duo-pianist in the United States and in Europe, with a repertoire focused on major 20th century works by Debussy, Bartók, Berio, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Ligeti, Reich, and Boulez.
Kohn's own works have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestras, the Oakland Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, on the San Francisco Symphony's Musica Viva series, at the Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles (Kohn served for two decades on the board of directors of the Monday Evening Concerts), and in concerts and broadcasts throughout the United States and abroad.