Dmitry Bashkirov

Dmitri Alexandrovich Bashkirov (Russian Дмитрий Александрович Башкиров; born 1 November 1931 in Tbilisi ) is a Russian pianist.

Bashkirov studied in Tbilisi in Anastasia Virsaladze ( grandmother of Elisso Virsaladze ) and Alexander Weiser gold at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1955 he won first prize at the piano competition Marguerite Long in Paris. In 1957 Bashkirov increasingly devoted himself to teaching and became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1980, the Soviet government forbade him his performances abroad, what Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988 picked up. In 1991 he became Head of the Department of Piano at the newly founded Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid. Among his many students from Moscow and Madrid years include Dmitri Alexeyev, Boris Bloch, Nikolai Demidenko, Kirill Gerstein, Jonathan Gilad, Stanislav Ioudenitch, David Kadouch, Eldar Nebolsin and - now best known - Arcadi Volodos.

Bashkirov has recorded for Melodiya, EMI and Erato.

Bashkirov support the Russian young musical talent and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Rotary Music Competition in Moscow.

Baschkirows daughter Jelena Bashkirova, also a pianist and student of Bashkirov, since 1988 the second wife of Daniel Barenboim.