is an internationally renowned pianist, teacher, writer and programme maker. His reputation as an expert on the history of piano music is mostly due to books like Reflections from the Keyboard (1986), Conversations with Menuhin (1992), Evenings with Horowitz (1994), The Art of the Piano (1995), The Essential Canon of Classical Music (2001) and numerous essays and introductions to CD recordings. Dubal made the documentary The Golden Age of the Piano (2003), which won him an Emmy Award. Since 1983 he teaches at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York, and from 1995 also at the Manhattan School of Music. In Nexus 50 he makes a plea for the arts as a remedy against the cultural and social decay in the United States. His own website: www.daviddubal.com.