Mikhail Sergeyevich Voskressensky

Mikhail Sergejewitsch Voskressenski ( Russian Михаил Сергеевич Воскресенский ; also Mikhail Voskresensky; born June 25, 1935 in Berdyansk , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union ) is an internationally active Russian pianist and music professor.

Life

Voskressensky attended the Moscow Conservatory and was trained by Lev Nikolayevich Oborin , who himself was the first winner at the first Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1927 . In 1956 he took third place at the first Robert Schumann Competition , then still in Berlin, together with the Polish pianist Lidia Grychtołówna , as well as at the first Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1962 in Fort Worth , Texas , USA. In 1957 he was the pianist in the presence of the composer at the first performance of the Second Piano Concerto opus 102 by Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakowitsch outside the Soviet Union as part of the Prague Spring .

In 1966 Woskressenski was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR and in 1989 the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Voskressenski is Professor of Piano at the Moscow Conservatory and from 2001 to 2004 was visiting professor at the Japanese Toho Gakuen School of Music in Chofu near Tokyo . He is also “Artist-in-Residence” at the Juilliard School in New York .

In 2011 Voskressensky was a juror at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

repertoire

Woskressenski's repertoire includes the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas, all of Chopin's works and more than 50 piano concertos. He has worked with quartets like the Borodin Quartet and conductors like Charles Dutoit , Kurt Masur and Franz Konwitschny .

Web links

• Website of the pianist (en.)
• Moscow Conservatory (en.)