Mikhail Rudy

Mikhail Rudy (born April 3, 1953 in Tashkent , USSR ) is a French pianist .

Life

Rudy took piano lessons at the age of five, which he continued at the Moscow Conservatory at the age of ten and graduated there at the age of twenty-two. In 1971 he was awarded the Bach Prize and in 1975 the Long Thibaud Prize . In 1977 Rudy decided not to return to his home country on a guest tour in France. Instead, he eventually settled in Paris.

The following years were characterized by concert activity, among others with the violinist Isaac Stern , the cellist Mstislaw Rostropowitsch and the conductors Herbert von Karajan and Lorin Maazel . In 2001, Rudy became known with the performance of all four piano concertos by Sergei Rachmaninoff on two consecutive piano recitals in Berlin. Since then he has entered into a musical partnership with the jazz pianist Misha Alperin , with whom he also worked in the field of improvisation . In 2007 he initiated a reading of Władysław Szpilman's autobiography by the actor Peter Guinness , during which he played plays by Frédéric Chopin , which Szpilman himself had played in the Warsaw ghetto in order not to lose his self-discipline , which is essential for survival.

Recordings

• Works by Sergei Rachmaninow (Prix de l'Academie du Disque Français), Johannes Brahms (Gramophone - Classical Good CD Guide 1999), Dmitri Shostakowitsch ( German Record Critics' Prize ), Modest Mussorgski and Richard Wagner , as well as CD Journey for 2 pianos: Improvisations beyond Jazz , which documents his artistic collaboration with Misha Alperin. The latter was named Best Record of the Month by Gramophone magazine in 2004 .

Web links

• Sound carrier by Mikhail Rudy in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Staging the Pianist . Article by Mikhail Rudy in The Guardian newspaper . Retrieved September 10, 2010.