Famous Piano Teachers Page 1 Rubinstein was considered to be in the same league as Liszt as a pianist. His most famous student was heinrich neuhaus, but he also took interest in http://www.pedaplus.com/famous_a.html
Famous Piano Teachers Page 2 heinrich neuhaus. neuhaus was a highly respected teacher in Russia. Emil Gilels,and the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu. Links neuhaus Home Page http://www.pedaplus.com/famous_b.html
International Piano-e-competition Edmund Battersby, American born and trained, is a pianist of international reputation . One of the last pupils of the great heinrich neuhaus (Moscow http://www.piano-e-competition.com/screeningjury.htm
Extractions: The Screening Jury reviewed 53 Disklavier Audition competitors, narrowing the field to 24 contestants, who have been invited to Minneapolis and St. Paul for the 2004 International Piano-e-Competition. Screening rounds took place at Sundin Hall at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota during the dates of Sunday, January 11 - Tuesday, January 13, 2004. Rees Allison Accomplished performer and academic Rees Allison is Professor of Piano and Chair of the Music Department at Hamline University. Allison came to the United States in 1965 as a Fulbright Commission and English Speaking Union scholarship recipient after completing his undergraduate study at London's Royal Academy of Music. Since attaining a Ph.D. at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1970, Allison has continued to perform as well as teach. Currently, Allison performs with The Musical Offering and with The Hill House Chamber Players, and has performed as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Edmund Battersby Edmund Battersby, American born and trained, is a pianist of international reputation. He has performed with many of the country's top orchestras including Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, New Jersey Symphonies and has played recitals in major capitols around the world. He has recorded for Musical Heritage Society, Koch International, Marco Polo and most recently Naxos. A versatile chamber musician also, he has played with groups such as the Tokyo Quartet, Orion Quartet and at festivals including Library of Congress, Santa Fe, La Jolla, Mostly Mozart (NY) and the Seattle Chamber Music Festival.
Lazar Berman, Transart Uk, Piano Until his first visit to the West, he was known only by name a pianist of incredible are heinrich neuhaus, Richter, Sofronitzky and Berman s mother. http://www.transartuk.com/berman/
Extractions: 'A career happens if you love music. And if a career does not happen, do not worry because you still have music that you love" says Lazar Berman. His international career began relatively late: in the middle of the seventies, he finally received permission to appear in the United States for the first time. At this point, he was already a greatly admired and renowned artist in the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries for twenty years. Until his first visit to the West, he was known only by name: a pianist of incredible technical mastery who was able to play the last movement of Chopin's B flat minor Sonata in less than fifty seconds. When Emil Gilels made his début in America, he was convinced that Richter was the only pianist better than himself. A few years later, Gilels spread the new message - he said that Lazar Berman was the best among them. But for almost two decades since his name came to the attention of the public, Berman remained a mystery. His triumphant début in the United States took place in 1976, and it proved that Berman is much more than a master of technique. Within a few months, he had become one of the most highly praised artists of the international music scene. Throughout his sold-out American tours, he captivated audiences with his musical interpretation and grand romantic style. As well as returning to the US in the following seasons, he also made his European debuts in Paris, London and other European capitals. Within a short time, he had made numerous outstanding recordings, among them the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Herbert von Karajan.
Extractions: Chopin liberated piano technique whereas Liszt spread the results of this liberation throughout Europe. After Chopin, Liszt exhausted the technical possibilities of the Romantic piano by exploring in greater depths the paths opened up by Chopin, and further contributing his own discoveries. Both Chopin and Liszt rejected many traditional technical notions. In the technical sphere, Liszt's emphasis was to develop a high degree of mechanical perfection to enable better control of the instrument and to be free from technical obstacles.[76] He advocated that full concentration on the conception and interpretation of a work could only result from fluent technique. He instructed the young Boissier, "You see, one must not be hindered by anything, for when one desires to express all that one feels, the fingers must be so technically proficient, so supple, and must have such a combination of nuances in readiness, that the heart can stir freely, without ever being handicapped by finger obstacles." [77]
Harold Moores Records breath as Gilels and Richter (not least by their teacher heinrich neuhaus) and admired the pianist greatly) an artist well worth getting to know http://www.hmrecords.co.uk/catalogue/lps/A003000000012nog/page1.php
Extractions: Born in the Caucasus Mountalns near the Black Sea, Russian pianist Vladimir Viardo traveled to Moscow at the age ot fourteen to further his musical formation. Once in the capital, he was taken to the family of Lev Naumov (Custodian of the Heinrich Neuhaus methods that are credited with producing the extraordinary twentieth-century Russian keyboard masters, Gilels and Richter), with whom he later studied at the Moscow Conservatory. During his six years of study he was tenured as a soloist by The Moscow Philharmonia, and after receiving his doctorate, went on to the position of assistant professor with Naumov at the Conservatory where he is associated to this day. Then, despite having already launched an impressive global career, Mr. Viardo's travel visa was mysteriously revoked, resulting in his virtual imprisonment behind the iron curtain for fourteen years. During his confinement he developed new horizons in artistic achievement, and enlarged his repertoire, which eventually included thirty-seven concertos. With the era of "Glasnost" and "Perestroika," Vladimir Viardo returned to public engagements in Germany and in the US, and was quickly offered a tour and recording contract with the Dallas Symphony. As Artist-In-Residence at the University of Nor1h Texas, Mr. Viardo established the Viardo Fellows Foundation, which is committed to providing musical training of the highest artistic quality.
Neuhaus pianist Master Teacher. neuhaus. heinrich neuhaus was the student of LeopoldGodowski and the teacher of both Svyatislav Richter and Emil Gilels http://www.apogeefoundation.org/awards/fame/neuhaus.php
Radu Lupu, Famous Romanian-Born Pianist, UK Radu Lupu, Famous RomanianBorn pianist, UK. where he studied with GalinaEghyazarova, heinrich neuhaus and later with Stanislav neuhaus http://romania-on-line.net/whoswho/LupuRadu.htm
Extractions: Romanian-Born Pianist Born : November 30, 1945, Galati, Romania. Son of Meyer Lupu and Ana Gabor Studies Musical Performance A leading interpreter of the German classical compositions Regularly invited to play with all the great orchestras of the world including: the Berlin Philharmonic, with whom he made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1978 with Karajan the Vienna Philharmonic, with whom he opened the 1986 Salzburg Festival with Muti the Royal Concertgebouw all the major London orchestras all the great American orchestras. His first major America appearances were in 1972 with the Cleveland Orchestra and Barenboim in New York, and with the Chicago Symphony and Giulini
Castle Classics Scriabin - Solo Piano The feverish world of Scriabin needs a brillant pianist it has one in Eric Le A Scriabin Russian Piano School - heinrich neuhaus - heinrich neuhaus, http://shop.castleclassics.co.uk/acatalog/Scriabin___Solo_Piano.html
Evgeny Svetlanov Svetlanov graduated from the Gnessin Institute as a pianist, going on to the During the graduation concert at the Institute, heinrich neuhaus was the http://www.svetlanov-evgeny.com/EN/pianiste/pianiste3.php
Extractions: At that time, those who heard him could see the qualities that later strongly developed in his conducting. His sight reading was perfect. Svetlanov was a passionate performer of chamber and symphonic repertoire. He had a beautiful operatic baritone. Svetlanov also loved voice chamber music. His knowledge of songs and arias was extensive. Once he was introduced to Vera Alexandrovna Davydova, a star of the Bolshoi Theater. Not only did she play very important operatic roles, she also was keenly interested in art songs (not many opera singers were). I well remember Davydovas and Svetlanovs song recital in the Moscow Conservatory Hall, comprised entirely of the works of Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin. I would like to say a few words about Shaporin with whom Svetlanov studied composition. Shaporin wrote remarkable, beautiful Russian music. Besides, he was a very refined person, a true Russian intellectual, educated, with the knowledge of several languages. Shaporin knew the poet Alexander Blok and set a lot of his poetry to music. The piano parts for these songs are often extremely complex and difficult. I still remember the performance of Zaklinaniye (Incantantion). Davydova, who was a very beautiful woman, sang this exceptionally dramatic piece based on the poem by Pushkin, with tremendous passion. My memory of this recital is still very vivid.
Karol Szymanowski - By Neal Galanter He later studied with another relative Gustav neuhaus, whose son heinrich was such as pianist Artur Rubinstein, Harry neuhaus supported this endeavor. http://www.usc.edu/go/polish_music/composer/szymanowski_galanter.html
Extractions: Back to PMRC Site USC Home Page Thornton School of Music INTRODUCTION Karol Szymanowski was one Poland's most important composers after Chopin and post Second World War composers such as Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Panufnik and Gorecki. Szymanowski was a truly individula composer and a cosmopolitan man who had strong artistic aspirations in connection with his native Poland. He was born in Tymoszowka in the Ukraine, part of the former kingdom of Poland. His parents were nationalistic Poles who encouraged their five children to pursue artistic endeavors. Three of them ended up becoming musicians. Szymanowski' got his first lessons in music from his father and also from his aunt. He later studied with another relative: Gustav Neuhaus, whose son Heinrich was a very famous Russian piano pedagogue and the teacher of Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter. In Berlin in 1905, Szymanowski and a few colleagues founded the 'Young Composers' Publishing Co., which promoted concerts and the publication of new Polish music. Many other famous Polish musicians such as pianist Artur Rubinstein, Harry Neuhaus supported this endeavor. Then Szymanowski began traveling and the years 1909 to 1914 took him to such places as: London, Italy, 'Vienna, Algiers, Constantine, Biskra and Tunis. In the summer of 1914 he returned to Tymoszowka and stayted there throughout the war. He largely wrote music and studied during this period and some musicologists say this was his period of greatest creativity. "Metopes" and "Masques" were written during this time. Two major piano works which are considered two of his greatest works and certainly two of his greatest contributions to the piano literature.
ECM He attended the Moscow Conservatory where he was one of the last students of thegreat pianist, teacher and writer heinrich neuhaus. http://www.ecmrecords.com/Background/Background_1790.php
Extractions: News Artists Catalogue/Shop Tours ... About ECM It is very important for a composition to begin with an impulse. No matter whether powerful or gentle, it should be the result of a pre-existent energy that sets the composition in motion. Then the whole can unfold step by step. Valentin Silvestrov In an interview with the New Yorker, Arvo Pärt recently described Valentin Silvestrov as one of the greatest composers of our time. These premiere recordings of Metamusik and Postludium made with Valentin Silvestrovs participation, underline Pärts conviction, and emphasize the uniqueness of the Ukrainian composers vision. They also serve to round out a portrait of the composer first sketched with 2001s Grammy-nominated chamber music album leggiero, pesante; the focus here is on symphonic music, yet the term seems inadequate for Silvestrovs delicately -realized compositions - played with extraordinary restraint and fluidity by Alexei Lubimov with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies. In the CD booklet, Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich observes that both Postludium and Metamusik are symphonic works with a solo part tailored specifically to the subtle magic of the pianist Alexei Lubimov. Though the piano writing is monophonic throughout, there is no singing line, but swirling cascading textures. This enables the piano to articulate itself as an individual, subjective voice, but also as the medium of a sort of alienation, as if someone were speaking, not directly, but in an aside and as if in a dream. Perhaps the unique quality of the diction derives from the communicating subject being shown at the eternal moment of self-renunciation. More than ever, the orchestral sonorities are neither counterpart nor partner in dialogue, but complement, enveloping and enfolding the pianistic monologue, giving spatial dimension to the soliloquy.
Untitled For example, a young pianist may demonstrate great potential and the neuhaus,heinrich. The Art of Piano Playing Praeger Publishers, Inc. New York. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/5453/pnocom.htm
Extractions: In addition to the difficulties encountered in evaluating the abilities of the gifted performer, the pedagogical definitions that have emerged over the years have further complicated matters. While these definitions may provide insights into the nature of giftedness they just as often reflect the historical position and personality of the writer. In his Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1753), Carl Phillip Emanual Bach describes the gifted musician as one who is inspired by intensively listening to accomplished musicians and in turn is capable of expression through "giving a stirring performance" : a view consistent with eighteenth century deference to precedent and authority. Less than a century later, Franz Liszt spoke of giftedness as an intrinsic quality of passion qualified by a meditative and reflective cast of mind; an intrinsically motivated capacity for 'natural abandonment and passion (Boissier 1831). In order to be true to his gift, Liszt, in his early twenties withdrew from active performance for two years to put himself through the painstaking process of technical and musical re-examination (Boissier 1831).
Piano Solo S Corner Providing Detailed Descriptions Of Composers Schnabel and his teacher Theodore Leschetizky, Byron Janis and his mentorVladimir Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter and his teacher heinrich neuhaus etc. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/9981/pianist.html
Extractions: My Humble Insight Hi, I'm Yew Choong from Malaysia. I started playing piano at the age of 6. Music is unquestionably my lifelong passion - it is such a wonderful 'companion' that I cannot live without. To me, playing music on piano is considered as a mean for expressing my innermost feelings as well as revealing composers' musical thoughts. I had been ambivalent about the choice between IT (Information Technology) and music as my career since I completed my studies at secondary school. I was not entirely happy while venturing into IT field. I found myself "wandering aimlessly" during that period. My dream eventually comes true when I am allowed to study music at Sedaya College and yet offered a full scholarship to pursue a bachelor degree in performance at West Virginia University (WVU) in Jan 2001. I am so grateful that many people give me strong moral supports in achieving my dream. They are my parents, my piano professor - Dr. P'ng, the music professors from WVU, my counsellor - Mr. Sylvester and my close friends (especially those music enthusiasts from Internet) whom I highly revere. You see, it does not come by easy and all my struggles and efforts finally paid off. I strongly believe that every career has a bright future. I must say that everything you do involves a calculated risk (borrowed from Tom Cruise's quote), it is a matter of how you work towards succeed. Unfortunately, many think that having a luxurious life is a bright future. It does not guarantee happiness in your life, nor indicates that you are a successful person. That is why people are perplexed with my choice of music as a profession. They think music is such a wretched profession that it is not really potential in Eastern countries including Malaysia. That is why lucrative professions like medicine, engineering, IT etc. are among the most popular career choices. You have to trust your own abilities and know your interests, regardless of others' opinions. I lament over the fact that most youngsters succumb themselves to their parents' wishes or they tend to involve themselves in any field that would guarantee a secure life.
Radu Lupu pianist. Born in Rumania, Radu Lupu was 6 years old when he started to learn with Galina Eghyazarova, heinrich neuhaus and later with Stanislav neuhaus. http://www.terryharrison.force9.co.uk/radu.htm
Extractions: Radu Lupu Pianist Born in Rumania, Radu Lupu was 6 years old when he started to learn the piano with Lia Busuioceanu, and made his public debut with a complete programme of his own music at the age of 12. He continued his studies for several years with Florica Muzicescu and Cella Delavranca before winning a scholarship in 1961 to the Moscow Conservatoire where he studied with Galina Eghyazarova, Heinrich Neuhaus and later with Stanislav Neuhaus. He won first prize in three competitions: the 1966 Van Cliburn, the 1967 Enescu International, and the 1969 Leeds International. In 1989 he was awarded the prestigious "Abbiati" prize, given by the Italian Critics' Association. He is regularly invited to play with all the great orchestras of the world including the Berlin Philharmonic (with whom he made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1978 with Karajan), the Vienna Philharmonic (with whom he opened the 1986 Salzburg Festival with Muti), the Royal Concertgebouw, all the major London orchestras, and all the great American orchestras. His first major America appearances were in 1972 with the Cleveland Orchestra and Barenboim in New York, and with the Chicago Symphony and Giulini. He has played at all the major music festivals and has been a regular guest at the Salzburg and Lucerne Festivals. Radu Lupu has made a number of recordings for Decca: the Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta; Brahms Concerto No 1, Grieg and Schumann Concertos, the complete Mozart Violin and Piano Sonatas with Szymon Goldberg, Debussy and Franck Violin and Piano Sonatas with Kyung Wha Chung, and solo works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Schubert. In 1995 he won 2 awards in the category "Best Instrumental Record of the Year": a Grammy for Schubert's Sonatas in A major D664 and B flat major D960, and an Edison Award for Schumann's Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana and Humoresque. He has also made two records with Murray Perahia (CBS), two albums of Schubert Lieder with Barbara Hendricks (EMI), and a disc of pieces for four hands by Schubert with Daniel B
Sviatoslav Richter His extensive discography is the largest of any other pianist of our time. heinrich neuhaus, the legendary professor who taught Gilels, Richter, http://sinadin.tripod.com/life.html
Extractions: setAdGroup('67.18.104.18'); var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Search: Lycos Tripod Dukes of Hazzard Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next The son of a Russian mother and of a musician father who emigrated to the Ukraine from Germany, pianist Sviatoslav Richter was born near Zhitomir on 20 March 1915. He was a violinist and coach before perfecting his pianistic skills with the Moscow master teacher Heinrich Neuhaus. At the age of 19, the young accompanist/conductor made his debut in Russia, and shortly thereafter Prokofiev dedicated his Ninth Sonata to him. Richter was a legend in the West even before he finally appeared in Central Europe in the 1950s. His first U.S. concert in 1960, at New York's Carnegie Hall, was preceded by great expectations. His recordings had already caused a sensation: the most prized were his early recordings of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto and Sonata, his thunderous interpretation of Prokofiev's First Concerto, and his dazzling performances of Schumann's and Liszt's virtuoso works.
Piano Practice Page heinrich neuhaus , The Art Of Piano Playing (Translated By KA Leibovitch) Harold Taylor, The pianist s Talent A New Approach To Piano Playing Based On http://publish.uwo.ca/~elosseva/PianoPractice.htm
Extractions: "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten Ah, the joy of practicing... Welcome to my piano practice page. Give it a glance and I hope you'll find something of interest. Send me an email if you'd like to chat. I am always looking for people to play chamber music with. Contents of this page: Piano Practice Online Resources: (few but useful) http://www.mwsc.edu/~bhugh/practicetips/index.html provides collection of practice tips and advice by Prof. Brent Hugh http://www.siue.edu/MUSIC/html/ruths.html is an article by a great pianist Ruth Slenczynska on memory work (click here if the link doesn't work) http://www.alexandertechnique.com includes a list of online resources for Alexander technique (though I am highly skeptical of it myself) http://www.engr.unl.edu/ee/eeshop/music.html
The Russian Piano School It is exactly this individuality which the great pianist and teacher AB Goldenweiser The poet of the pianoforte , heinrich neuhaus, an artist of great http://www.mainlyopera.com/features/russpiano.html
Extractions: Folk Music The Russian Piano School The Russian Piano School by Tatyana Alexeyeva More than one hundred years have passed since the birth of the Russian piano school. The past century has given us so many great names, so many geniuses. The phenomenon of the Russian piano school lives on, in spite of the storm of revolutions and social upheavals. What is it - the force of tradition, special talent, or simply a characteristic of the soul? Perhaps it is just brilliant pedagogical work which has given us this great school and its traditions. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries both instrumental performance and pedagogical practice underwent intensive development. It is enough to recall the names of the outstanding musicians and teachers - Goldenweiser, Safonov, Siloti, Egumnov. They were highly educated people, standing at the origins of Russian pianism. Alexander Scriabin, pupil of Safonov, and Sergei Rachmaninov, pupil of Siloti, are two of the greatest names of Russian culture. They were the two great opposites - the huge, soft hands of Rachmaninov, and the tiny, delicate hands of Scriabin. How much force and richness of sound is to be found in the performances of one, and how much lightness and magical colour in the pianism of the other. It is amazing that they both met for the first time in the class of the great teacher Prof. Zverev, when they were young boys.
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