Richard Kogan has a
distinguished career both as a concert pianist and as a
psychiatrist. He has been praised for his "eloquent,
compelling, and exquisite playing" by the New York Times and the
Boston Globe wrote that "Kogan has somehow managed to excel at the
world's two most demanding professions". He has gained renown for
his lecture/recitals that explore the influence of psychological
factors on the creative output of composers such as
Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, George Gershwin
and Leonard Bernstein. He recorded a DVD for
Yamaha entitled " Music and the Mind : The Life and Works of
Robert Schumann." Yo-Yo Ma wrote of this DVD : "Through a unique
combination of brilliant psychiatric insights and superb musicianship,
my musical colleague Richard Kogan presents a rich multidimensional
profile revealing some of the most intimate sources of Schumann's
enormous creativity, imagination and artistry." Dr. Kogan has won the
Concert Artists Guild Award and the Chopin Competition of the
Kosciuszko Foundation and received the 2005 Artsgenesis Creative
Achievement Award.
Dr. Kogan is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College,
Harvard College, and Harvard Medical School. He completed a
psychiatry residency and an academic fellowship at NYU. , He
has a private practice of psychiatry in New York City and is affiliated
with Weill-Cornell Medical School as Co-Director of its Human
Sexuality Program.
