Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov

Nikolai Petrov Arnoldovich (Russian Николай Арнольдович Петров, scientific transliteration Nikolai Petrov Arnol'dovič; born April 14, 1943 in Moscow, † August 3, 2011 ) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher.

Life

Nikolai Petrov was born in 1943 into a family of outstanding musicians and took his mother 's surname. His father was a cellist Arnold Jakowljewitsch Ferkelman, who was a friend of Dmitri Shostakovich. His grandfather, Vasily Rodionowitsch Petrov, was a famous Russian bass and sang at the Bolshoi Theatre, among others, with the likes of Chaliapin.

1961 graduated from the Central Music School in Moscow Petrov, where he studied with Tatiana E. Kestner. Between 1962 and 1968 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Yakov Sak.

First public attention gained Petrov, when he in 1962 the second prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, behind Ralph Votapek and before Mikhail Sergeyevich Voskresensky won. Two years later, the second prize at the International Piano followed the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, where he was placed behind Yevgeny Mogilewski.

His repertoire included about 50 recital programs and 50 concerts with orchestra.

He played between 70 and 100 concerts a year, with about ten of them in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in the cycle Nikolai Petrov plays took place.

Nikolai Petrov was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where many famous pianists studied with him. He also held senior positions in several major Russian cultural societies. Like his teacher Yakov Sak was Nikolai Petrov People's Artist of the USSR.