AboutOfficial Site: http://www.feltsman.com/An artist of immense range and insight, Vladimir Feltsman is recognized as one of the most imaginative and constantly interesting musicians of our time. Born in Moscow in 1952, Mr. Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. In 1969, he entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory of Music to study piano under the guidance of Professor Jacob Flier. He also studied conducting at both the Moscow and the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Conservatories. In 1971, Mr. Feltsman won the Grand Prix at the Marguerite Long International Piano Competition in Paris; this was followed by intensive concert tours throughout the former Soviet Union, Europe and Japan. Mr. Feltsman emigrated to the United States in 1987, and that same year, his debut at Carnegie Hall immediately established him as a major pianist on the American scene. A regular guest soloist with every leading orchestra in the United States, Mr. Feltsman appears on the most prestigious concert series and music festivals worldwide. His 2005-06 seasons includes returns to Carnegie Hall and to the Van Cliburn Foundation Piano Series in recital, a tour of the southeastern US with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev conducting. Playing and conducting with Seattle and New Jersey Symphony orchestras, concerts with London Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas in London. Mr. Feltsman made his twelfth consecutive appearance at the Aspen Music Festival in the summer of 2005 and returned to the Ravinia Festival for his fourth appearance in five years. In the Fall of 2006 Mr. Feltsman will perform a cycle of complete Mozart Sonatas on original Walter fortepiano in New York City. In December of 2006 Mr.Feltsman will conduct Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte at Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. Among his 2006-07 engagements are concerts in Singapore and Korea with St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Yuri Temirkanov, concerts with Pittsburgh Symphony, tour in Japan, recitals in Philadelphia, Kansas City, San Juan and La Jolla. He will perform Ravel’s Concerto for left hand at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Sharing the great tradition of piano playing has become increasingly important to Mr.Feltsman, who holds the Distinguished Chair of Professor of Piano at the State University of New York, New Paltz, and teaches at the Mannes College of Music in New York City. He is the founder and Artistic director of the International Festival-Institute PianoSummer at New Paltz, a comprehensive, month-long training program for advanced pianostudents which offers a unique, multifaceted approach to all aspects of piano performance and attracts musicians from all over the world. Mr. Feltsman's extensive discography has been released on the Sony Classical, Music heritage Society, and Camerata Tokyo. His discography includes six albums of clavier works of J.S. Bach, recordings of Beethoven's last five piano sonatas, solo piano works of Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, and Messiaen, as well as concertos by Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. Mr. Feltsman, who became a US citizen in1995, lives in upstate New York. |
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