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Piotr Poland |
One of the most outstanding Polish pianists and professors, five international competitions laureate. He completed piano studies at the Chopin Music University in Warsaw. His success at the 8th Chopin Piano Competition opened him the doors of the best world concert halls. On 5 November 2001, Piotr Paleczny was invited to be a soloist of the Gala Concert to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Warsaw National Philharmonic. He has gained a great recognition as a juror at the competitions in Warsaw, Leeds, Moscow, Paris, Tel Aviv, London, Cleveland, Genève, Toronto, Dublin, Seoul, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Hamamatsu, Montreal, Astana, Valencia, Santander, Tokyo, Sendai, Taipei, Weimar, Manchester, Los Angeles. In 2007, he led the jury at the piano competition in Cleveland, being the first and only Pole invited as a Jury chairman at the USA international piano competitions. Read more |
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Boris Russia |
Boris Petrushansky started playing piano at the age of five and had among his teachers the eminent Heinrich Neuhaus. After studying with Lev Naumov, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1975, having already distinguished himself in major international competitions, for example at Leeds in 1969, Munich in 1971, and Terni in 1975 where he won the first prize. Ever since the summer of 1975 when he gave two unforgettable recitals at the Festival dei due Mondi at Spoleto and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (substituting Richter), Petrushansky has not looked back. His performances have taken him to Italy, Finland, Sweden, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Czechoslovakia, USA, Hungary, Israel, Egypt, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong-Kong and South Africa. Read more |
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Valeri Russia |
The central place in the life of Valery Piassetski is occupied by pedagogy. Among his students it is sufficient to mention the name of the winner of XI International Tchaikovsky Competition, Laureate of Russia Government award Denis Matsuev. More than 120 times the students of Piassetski became laureates of international and all-Russian competitions. To his credit are victories and laureate titles of major youth competitions. Also his students are: The III Prize laureate of the XV Tchaikovsky Competition Daniil Kharitonov, the winner of Busoni Competition Dinara Klinton, the winner of the I Stanislav Neuhaus Competition Arseny Aristov, the winner of the IV Rachmaninoff Competition in Moscow and the winner of the Competition in memory of Vladimir Horowitz Alexander Sinchuk. Read more |
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Vladimir Russia |
A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory where he studied with Aleksey Nasedkin, he is the only pianist ever to win the top prizes at both the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1982, first prize not awarded, he received a joint 2nd prize with Peter Donohoe) and the Leeds International Piano Competition (1987). Mr. Ovchinnikov is also a laureate of the Concours International de Montréal (1980). Read more |
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Pavel Russia |
A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory where he studied with Sergey Dorensky, he was invited to join the faculty upon graduating in 1987 with maximum marks. For more than 25 years Pavel Nersessian has been assisting his teacher. He has worked with such talented pupils as Victoria Korchinskaya-Kogan, Olesya Tutova, Stepan Simonian, Zlata Chochieva, Elena Popkova, Karina Magakian, Alexey Sychev, Leon Bernsdorf and many others. He has given masterclasses in the USA, Russia, Ireland, Serbia, Germany, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Spain and Korea. Read more |
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Pascal France |
Music! – Pascal Escande has been immersed in music since childhood. From his first musical experiences he retains a memory of the musical colour and hieratic image of the organ at the church of Saint-Eustache in Paris, with the organist André Marchal. The latter taught Robert Valette who, in his turn, introduced Pascal Escande to the organ while he was a pupil at Saint-Martin de France in Pontoise. However, if there is one instrument especially akin to him, it is the piano. One of his first great pianistic experiences was a performance of Brahms’s Concerto n°1 in D minor by the famous pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Here again, we can see in it a faithful reflection of a personality like his composer: romanticism, daring and audacity. After his Baccalaureate, he met Eliane Richepin in an encounter that was to prove decisive. Read more |
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