Maria Yudina Date of birth 09.09.1899 Date of death 19.11.1970 Profession pianist Country the USSR Maria Yudina is one of the most colorful and original figures in our pianistic firmament. To the originality of thought, the unusualness of many interpretations, the non-standard of her repertoire was added. Almost every performance of hers became an interesting, often unique event. Piano music in the online store OZON.ru And every time, whether it was at the dawn of the artist’s career (the 20s) or much later, her art caused fierce controversy among the pianists themselves, and among critics, and among listeners. But back in 1933, G. Kogan convincingly pointed to the integrity of…

Naum Shtarkman Date of birth 28.09.1927 Date of death 20.07.2006 Profession pianist, teacher Country Russia, USSR Igumnovskaya school has given our pianistic culture many talented artists. The list of students of an outstanding teacher, in fact, closes Naum Shtarkman. After the death of K. N. Igumnov, he no longer began to move to another class and in 1949 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, as it is customary to say in such cases, “on his own”. So the teacher did not have to, unfortunately, rejoice at the success of his pet. And they soon arrived… It can be said that Shtarkman (unlike most of his colleagues) entered the now obligatory…

Arthur Schnabel Date of birth 17.04.1882 Date of death 15.08.1951 Profession pianist Country Austria Our century marked the greatest milestone in the history of the performing arts: the invention of sound recording radically changed the idea of ​​performers, making it possible to “reify” and forever imprint any interpretation, making it the property of not only contemporaries, but also future generations. But at the same time, sound recording made it possible to feel with renewed vigor and clarity how exactly performance, interpretation, as a form of artistic creativity, is subject to time: what once seemed like a revelation, as the years go by inexorably grows old; what caused delight, sometimes leaves…

Seong-Jin Cho Date of birth 28.05.1994 Profession pianist Country Korea Son Jin Cho was born in Seoul in 1994 and began learning to play the piano at the age of six. Since 2012 he has been living in France and studying at the Paris National Conservatory under Michel Beroff. Laureate of prestigious music competitions, including the VI International Competition for Young Pianists named after. Frederic Chopin (Moscow, 2008), Hamamatsu International Competition (2009), XIV International Competition. P. I. Tchaikovsky (Moscow, 2011), XIV International Competition. Arthur Rubinstein (Tel Aviv, 2014). In 2015 he won the XNUMXst prize at the International Competition. Frederic Chopin in Warsaw, becoming the first Korean pianist to win…

Aldo Ciccolini Date of birth 15.08.1925 Profession pianist Country Italy It was in Paris in the summer of 1949. The audience greeted with a storm of applause the decision of the jury of the Third Marguerite Long International Competition to award the Grand Prix (together with Y. Bukov) to a handsome, slender Italian who signed up for the competition at the last moment. His inspired, light, extraordinarily cheerful playing captivated the audience, and especially the sparkling performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto. Piano music in the online store OZON.ru The competition divided the life of Aldo Ciccolini into two parts. Behind – the years of study, which began, as often happens,…

Dino Ciani Date of birth 16.06.1941 Date of death 28.03.1974 Profession pianist Country Italy The creative path of the Italian artist was cut short at a time when his talent had not yet reached the top, and his entire biography fits into a few lines. A native of the city of Fiume (as Rijeka was once called), Dino Ciani studied in Genoa from the age of eight under the guidance of Marta del Vecchio. He then entered the Roman Academy “Santa Cecilia”, from which he graduated in 1958, receiving a diploma with honors. Over the next few years, the young musician attended the summer piano courses of A. Cortot in…

Igor Tchetuev Date of birth 29.01.1980 Profession pianist Country Ukraine Igor Chetuev was born in Sevastopol (Ukraine) in 1980. At the age of fourteen he received the Grand Prix at the Vladimir Krainev International Competition for Young Pianists (Ukraine) and improved for a long time under the guidance of Maestro Krainev. In 1998, at the age of eighteen, he won first place at the IX International Piano Competition. Arthur Rubinstein and received the Audience Choice Award. In 2007, Igor Chetuev accompanied the brilliant bass Ferruccio Furlanetto on the stage of La Scala; played three concerts with the Cologne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov and triumphantly performed at the festival…

Halina Czerny-Stefańska Date of birth 31.12.1922 Date of death 01.07.2001 Profession pianist Country Poland More than half a century has passed since the day when she came to the Soviet Union for the first time – she came as one of the winners of the 1949 Chopin Competition that had just ended. First, as part of a delegation of masters of Polish culture, and then, a few months later, with solo concerts. “We do not know how Czerny-Stefanska plays the music of other composers, but in the performance of Chopin, the Polish pianist showed herself to be a filigree master and a subtle artist, who is organically close to the…

Shura Cherkassky Date of birth 07.10.1909 Date of death 27.12.1995 Profession pianist Country UK, USA At the concerts of this artist, listeners often have a strange feeling: it seems that it is not an experienced artist who is performing before you, but a young child prodigy. The fact that on the stage at the piano there is a small man with a childish, diminutive name, almost childish height, with short arms and tiny fingers – all this only suggests an association, but it is born by the artist’s performing style itself, marked not only by youthful spontaneity, but sometimes downright childish naivete. No, his game cannot be denied a kind…

Angela Cheng Profession pianist Country Canada Canadian pianist Angela Cheng became famous for her brilliant technique and incredible musicality. She performs regularly with almost all the orchestras in Canada, many US orchestras, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2009, Angela Cheng took part in the tour of the Zukerman Chamber Players in China, and in the fall of 2009 – in the tour of the band in the United States. Angela Cheng regularly performs solo concerts in the US and Canada. She collaborates with numerous chamber ensembles, including the Takács and Vogler Quartets, the Colorado Quartet and others. Angela Cheng won the Gold Medal at the…