Lev Natochenny

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Lev Natochenny (born January 26, 1950 in Moscow ) is a Russian-American pianist and piano teacher.

Life

He graduated from the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the title Dr. phil. from. Some of his teachers were for example Lev Nikolaevich Oborin and Elisso Wirsaladze . His exit from the Soviet Union was approved in 1978. At first he remained stateless. In 1981 Natochenny won second prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano . In the USA he worked at the Manhattan School of Music , the Mannes College of Music and the City University of New York . Between 1988 and 2004 he was the artistic director of the Meranofest festival , an international summer meeting place for young piano players.

From 1994 until his retirement in 2015, against which he tried to defend himself with an unsuccessful lawsuit before the Hessian Administrative Court, he taught as a professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and held masterclasses in piano there. Since 2015 he has been teaching at the private Swiss Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences .

One of his successful students is the German pianist Martin Stadtfeld , other students included Dirk Mommertz , Evgenia Rubinova and Christopher Park .

Natochenny lives (as of 2018) in both New York and Frankfurt am Main / Bad Homburg . He is the father of American actress Sarah Natochenny .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court sends piano professor Natochenny into retirement , focus.de, June 3, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2016
  2. ↑ Piano professor Natochenny: The court does not allow retirement to be postponed , musik-heute.de, June 3, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2016
  3. ↑ Lecturers HfMDK Frankfurt: Lev Natochenny ( Memento from May 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Frank-Thomas Mitschke: The "Natochenny Method" . Schweizer Musikzeitung, September 9, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2016
  5. ↑ The master maker . In: Picture from January 26, 2015, page 10
personal data
SURNAME Natochenny, Lev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American pianist and piano professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Soviet Union