Viktor Alexandrovich Pikaisen
Wiktor Pikaisen ( Russian Виктор Александрович Пикайзен ; born February 15, 1933 in Kiev ) is a Russian violinist and music teacher .
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Pikaisen started playing the violin at the age of five. From 1939 to 1941 he was taught at the Kiev Conservatory , from 1941 to 1944 in the evacuation in Alma-Ata , then from 1945 at the Moscow Gnessin Music School in the class of David Oistrach . He then entered Oistrach's class at the Moscow Conservatory , from which he graduated in 1960 with an aspirantur . Pikaisen is the only student of Oistrach who studied with him from music school to graduation at the conservatory. He began an international concert career in the early 1960s.
Pikaisen won second prize in the competitions in Prague (1949), Paris (1957) and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958; he won the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1965. From 1966 to 1986 and again since 2006 he has taught at the Moscow Conservatory, and since 1993 in Ankara, further at the Moscow Schnittke Institute and at the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory . From 1987 he also taught in Kirchheim unter Teck in Swabia . He is a member of the juries of numerous competitions. He has a daughter, the US-based pianist Tatjana Pikaisen.
His complete recording of the Paganini Capricci from the sixties is considered to be one of the best.
Web links
- Wolfgang Wendel: Viktor Pikaisen (accessed May 3, 2013)
literature
- Harald Eggebrecht : Great violinists. Piper 2000, ISBN 978-3492042642 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Wendel: Podium Wendel: Pikaisen Victor. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pikaisen, Viktor Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Пикайзен, Виктор Александрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |