Soheil Nasseri

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Soheil Nasseri (* 1978 in Santa Monica ) is an American pianist living in Berlin.

Life

Soheil Nasseri is the child of Iranian emigrants. He began playing the piano at the age of five and moved to New York at the age of twenty to study with Karl Ulrich Schnabel (1909–2001). After Schnabel's death Soheil Nasseri became a student of Jerome Lowenthal and Claude Frank . Other important teachers included Irina Edelman , Anna Balakerskaia , Clinton Adams , Eva Pierrou and Ann Schein .

Concerts

Soheil Nasseri has performed in Carnegie Hall , Kennedy Center , Lincoln Center , Konzerthaus Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonie , among others .

Since 2001 he has performed over two dozen works by contemporary composers. Nine composers have composed works especially for him. It is also worth mentioning the world premiere of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Sonata No. 0 (1917) in Carnegie Hall 2002, from which Nasseri's first commercial CD was made. Since 2000 he has performed thirty of Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas at various performance locations in order to fulfill his plan to perform all of Beethoven's works up to his 250th birthday (including chamber music and lieder). The video recording of his performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Alexander Dmitriev and the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra in January 2013 was viewed more than 500,000 times on youtube.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jan Brachmann: A little elf, a donkey and a wheel with a dent . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 29, 2008; review
  2. ↑ nytimes.com
  3. ↑ Portrait of a musician. Zeit Online , April 2009
  4. ↑ Event information . In: Berliner Morgenpost
  5. ^ A Young Pianist With a Big Appetite . nytimes.com
  6. ^ Pianist Soheil Nasseri: Local Boy Does Pretty Good . washingtonpost.com
  7. ↑ Patricia M. Murret: He took a risk, but former RM student returns with honor. ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) gazette.net, February 13, 2008.
  8. ^ Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Alexander Dmitriev and the Academic Symphony Orchestra . youtube.com
personal data
SURNAME Nasseri, Soheil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica