Nicholas Angelich
Nicholas Angelich (born 1970 ) is an American pianist.
Born in the United States of America he received from the age of five years piano lessons from his mother. He gave his first concert together as a seven year old with a chamber orchestra in the United States, where he ( K. 467 ) played Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major. At age 13, he became a student at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, where he studied with Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod, Michel Béroff and Marie -Françoise Buquet. Master classes he took with Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher and Maria Joao Pires.
In 1989 he won second place in the international Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition in Cleveland (Ohio ), 1994 he won first prize at the International Gina Bachauer Piano Competition. In 2002 he was awarded the " Young Talent Award" at the Ruhr Piano Festival. He also played with famous French orchestras under Myung- Whun Chung and David Robertson. In May 2003 he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur. In 2004 he went with the latter and the Orchestre National de France on tour in Japan. His recording of piano trios by Brahms with the brothers Renaud Capuçon and Gautier for Virgin Classics (now EMI) was first on the list 2004-3 by The German Record Critics.
Angelich is an avid chamber musician and has performed with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden -Baden. He has worked with conductors such as Sir Roger Norrington, Alexander Dimitrijew, Michael Gielen and Hugh Wolff, with musicians such as Maxim Vengerov, Dmitri Sitkowetsky, Joshua Bell, Gérard Causse and the Ysaye Quartet and the Prazak Quartet.
Angelich applies after a wunderkind career as a young star pianist guild was discovered by EMI Classics for the international music scene.
His repertoire includes masterpieces of Romanticism and Classicism, next to a 20th century music by Sergei Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartók, Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Boulez and Eric Tanguy.
The composer Pierre Henry was dedicated to the pianist, the "Concerto for piano without orchestra".