Susana Kasakoff

Susana Kasakoff (born in Buenos Aires in the 20th century ) is an Argentine pianist.

Kasakoff began her musical training with Betty Grinjot . She studied at the Carlos López Buchardo Conservatory and continued her studies with Antonio de Raco at the Juan José Castro Conservatory , where she is professor of piano. In 1975 she won first prize at the international competition for young pianists of the Asociación Filarmónica de Mendoza , where she performed Sergei Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of the University of San Juan under the direction of Mario Benzecry . In 1981 she played works by 20th century composers with Gerardo Gandini .

In concert cycles at the Teatro Colón , the Goethe-Institut in Buenos Aires, the Centro Cultural Recoleta and the Fundación San Telmo she played works a. a. by György Ligeti , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Pierre Boulez , Charles Ives and Arnold Schoenberg as well as by Argentine composers such as Germán Cancián , Marta Lambertini , Julio Viera , Juan Carols Paz and Gerardo Gandini. Her interpretation of Charles Ives' Sonata Concord , which she performed for the first time in 1983, became famous.

In 1987 she played at the Teatro Colón with the Orquesta Filarmón ica de Buenos Aires under the direction of Pedro Ignacio Calderón Béla Bartók's First Piano Concerto. In 1997 she performed Nacionál Ligeti's piano concerto with the Orquestra Sinfonica , and in 2001 with the same orchestra conducted by Guillermo Scarabino, Aaron Copland's piano concerto. In 2001 her CD Kasakoff plays Senanes was released , for which she received the 2001 Tribuna de Música Argentina Prize of UNESCO . In the same year she performed Olivier Messiaena Oiseaux exotiques with the Orquestra Filarmonica de Buenos Aires under the direction of Alejo Pérez Pouillieux at the Teatro Colón.

At the Festival de Tango de la ciudad Buenos Aires 2002 she performed works by Claudio Alsuyet and Martín Liut in the concert program Las dos orillas . In 2003 she was invited to the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media in Seattle to play Ives' Sonata Concord and Juan Pampín's electroacoustic composition Oíd . She also recorded the latter on the CD Susana Kasakoff - Piano ex Machina .

Web links

• Susana Kasakoff's homepage
• Compositores & Intérpretes - Susana Kasakoff
• CDeMusic - Susana Kasakoff - Piano Ex Machina