Mark Anderson (pianist)

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Mark Anderson (* 1964 in the San Francisco Bay Area ) is an American pianist and university professor . He won a third prize in the 1993 Leeds Piano Competition and first prize in the 1994 William Kapell Competition in the United States.

life and work

Mark Anderson received his Batchelor of Music after graduating from San José State University with Aiko Onishi . Then he studied with Ryszard Bakst at the Northern College of Music in Manchester. He completed his studies privately with Benjamin Kaplan in London. In 1984 he won first prize at the Young Keyboard Artist International Piano Competition and the Clara Wells National Scholarship Competition . He also won prizes at the International Piano Recording Competition in 1986 and at the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition in 1986 and 1987, and at the GPA Dublin International Piano Competition in 1988 . In 1993, Mark Anderson received a third prize in the Leeds Piano Competition and first prize in the 1994 William Kapell Competition.

Mark Anderson has made an international career as a concert soloist, as a chamber musician and as an orchestral soloist. He has given concerts in Japan, the former Soviet Union, Europe, Great Britain, Ireland and North America. He has worked with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle , Nicholas McCegan , William Boughton , George Cleve and Ádám Fischer . Anderson has given solo concerts in New York's Alice Tully Hall and Weill Hall , the Kennedy Center and the Phillips Gallery in Washington, DC , as well as in London's Wigmore Hall and the Zurich Tonhalle . Mark Anderson supplements his solo and concert appearances with chamber music performances, often with the newly founded Röntgen Piano Trio. Sometimes he gives piano duo concerts with his current wife, the Canadian pianist Michelle Mares . He had already published duo piano recordings with his former wife Tamriko Siprashvili before 2009 . Mark Anderson is Assistant Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the University of British Columbia School of Music in Vancouver.

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  1. ↑ Year of birth according to information in Newport International Competition.
  2. ↑ The Leeds (leedspiano.com): winner of the International Piano Competition of Leeds. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical pianist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco Bay area