Menahem Pressler氏は、1923年ドイツのマグデブルグでユダヤ人Max Presslerとして生まれ、彼と両親は1939年にナチス迫害から逃れ、1940年に米国に入国しました。 1946年にサンフランシスコでのドビュッシー音楽コンクールで優勝し、其処で研鑽に励み、1955年にBeaux Arts Trioを結成、リーダーとして2008年迄に100回のコンサートと50回以上の演奏録音を残し、解散後はソロ活動を行っている。
Menahem Pressler was born as Max Pressler in the German city of Magdeburg in 1923. His family is Jewish. He and his parents fled Nazi rule in 1939; going first to Palestine, and then emigrating to the US in 1940. In the year 1946, the young Pressler won the Debussy International Piano Competition in San Francisco, studying thereafter in California. In 1955, he founded the world-famous “Beaux Arts Trio” and remained a member throughout its existence. The ensemble played some 100 concerts between 1955 and 2008 and released more than 50 recordings with different constellations of musicians, before performing its final concert in 2008. Menahem Pressler still gives solo performances to this day.