Arnaldo Cohen

Arnaldo Cohen is a Brazilian classical pianist who won first prize at the 1972 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and went on to an international concert and recording career, later teaching at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Trained also as a violinist and engineer, he is known for his virtuosic yet probing interpretations. He is of Russian- and Persian-Jewish extraction and grew up in Rio de Janeiro's Jewish community.