Mikhail Voskresensky

Mikhail Sergeyevich Voskresensky (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Воскресенский, also Mikhail Voskresensky; born June 25, 1935 in Berdyansk, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) is an international Russian pianist and professor of music.

Life

Voskresensky attended the Moscow Conservatory and was trained by Lev Nikolayevich Oborin, who himself was the first winner of the first Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1927. He finished 1956 with the first Robert Schumann Competition, at that time in Berlin, together with the Polish pianist Lidia Grychtołówna the third place, as well as both first Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He was in 1957 the pianist in the presence of the composer at the first performance of the Second Piano Concerto, opus 102 by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich outside the Soviet Union in the framework of the Prague Spring.

1966 Voskresensky was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR and in 1989 with the title People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Voskresensky is 2011 professor at the Moscow Conservatory and was in the years 2011 to 2004 Visiting Professor at the Japanese Taho Gakuen School of Music in Chofu near Tokyo. He is also " Artist-in -Residence " at the Juilliard School in New York.

2011 Voskresensky was a juror at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Repertoire

To Woskressenskis repertoire includes the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas, all the works of Chopin and more than 50 piano concertos. He worked with quartets such as the Borodin Quartet and conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur and Franz Konwitschny.