Pianist Jeanne Golan specializes in innovative programs that mix traditional and contemporary repertory. She has performed and recorded music of composers persecuted and killed in the Holocaust.
Golan was born on July 12, 1959, and grew up in Natick, Massachusetts. Her mother, Irene Soble Golan, was a music teacher and choir director at the local Temple Israel who programmed works by Jewish composers of the Renaissance. Golan attended Yale University, graduating in 1981. She went on for master's and doctoral degrees at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Golan...