Boris Berman

Boris Berman ( Russian Борис Берман ; born April 3, 1948 in Moscow ) is a Russian pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher.

Berman studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Lev Oborin and received his master's degree in the subjects of harpsichord and piano in 1971. He made his debut as a pianist in Moscow in 1965, joined an early music ensemble as a harpsichordist and gave concerts in the Soviet Union with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, among others . In the field of contemporary music, he worked with composers such as Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov , and gave Russian premieres of works by Arnold Schoenberg , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Luciano Berios , György Ligetis and John Cages .

In 1973 Berman emigrated to Israel, where he taught at the Rubin Music Academy at the University of Jerusalem and in 1975 founded the Music Spectrum concert series . In 1979 he went to the USA and until 1981 artist in residence at Brandeis University . He then taught at Indiana University Bloomington and Boston University and was professor at Yale University from 1986 to 1997 . During this time he directed the Yale Music Spectrum concert series and was founding director of the Yale Summer Piano Institute (1990–1992) of the International Summer Piano Institute in Hong Kong (1995–1997). He gave international master classes and became an honorary professor at the Shanghai Conservatory in 2005 and at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen in 2013 .

Berman has recorded numerous CDs, including all of Alexander Scriabin's piano sonatas , three piano concertos by Sergei Prokofiev with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Neeme Järvi , piano works and Claude Debussy in Igor Stravinsky , chamber music by Leoš Janáček , works for prepared piano by John Cage, piano quintets by Shostakovich and Schnittke and Ragtimes by Scott Joplin . He worked with musicians like Mischa Maisky , Heinz Holliger , Aurèle Nicolet , Shlomo Mintz , György Pauk , Ralph Kirshbaum , Frans Helmerson , Claude Frank , Peter Frankl , Natalia Gutman , the Tokyo Quartet , the Vermeer Quartet and The Netherland Wind Ensemble .

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SURNAME	Berman, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Берман, Борис (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow