List of classical pianists
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This is an alphabetized list of notable solo pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

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who play or played classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 on the piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

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For those who worked with other pianists as piano duos, see List of classical piano duos (performers).

For a list of recorded classical pianists see List of classical pianists (recorded). If you add a name to the list below and know that the pianist recorded, please add it to the other list as well.

Ab-Am

  • Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille
    Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille
    Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille was a German pianist and composer.His father was baronial valet in Bayreuth. He was educated at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart where his teachers were Antonio Boroni, Ferdinando Mazzanti, and Johann Gottlieb Sämann...

     (1761–1838)
  • Jacques Abram
    Jacques Abram
    Jacques Abram , an American classical pianist, was born in Lufkin, Texas and died in Tampa, Florida.Abram began improvising at age 3 and performing in public at age 6. As a youth he studied with Ima Hogg and Ruth Burr of Houston...

     (1915–1998)
  • Adolovni Acosta
    Adolovni Acosta
    Adolovni Acosta is a Philippine-born classical pianist. Ms. Acosta is the daughter of Guillermo and Ernestina Acosta. She is a notable concert pianist and recitalist.-Training and Education in Manila:...

  • Daniel Adni
    Daniel Adni
    Daniel Adni is an Israeli pianist .He began his training in Haifa, where he made his debut at age 12. He studied with Vlado Perlemuter at the Paris Conservatory, winning the Premier Prix 3 times. Afterwards he studied with Géza Anda in Zurich . In 1970 he made his London debut...

  • Adrian Aeschbacher
    Adrian Aeschbacher
    Adrian Aeschbacher was a Swiss classical pianist.His father was Carl Aeschbacher. His youth was spent at Trogen where his father was professor of piano at the Conservatoire, and his father was his instructor from the age of four to sixteen. His teachers were Emil Frey and Volkmar Andreae...

  • Valery Afanassiev
    Valery Afanassiev
    - Life :Valery Afanassiev was born in Moscow. He studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Emil Gilels and Yakov Zak. In 1969 he was the winner of the Bach Competition in Leipzig, and three years later at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels...

  • Guido Agosti
    Guido Agosti
    Guido Agosti was an Italian pianist and piano teacher.Agosti was born in Forlì in 1901. He studied piano with Ferruccio Busoni, Bruno Mugellini and Filippo Ivaldi, earning his diploma at age 13. He studied counterpoint under Benvenuti and literature at Bologna University. He commenced his...

  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a French pianist. He was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod and with Maria Curcio....

  • Webster Aitken
    Webster Aitken
    Webster Aitken was an American pianist. He studied piano in Europe with Artur Schnabel and Emil von Sauer. In 1929, he made his professional debut in Vienna, Austria. Upon returning to America, he gave a concert in New York City on November 17, 1935...

  • Nelly Akopian-Tamarina
    Nelly Akopian-Tamarina
    Nelly Akopian-Tamarina is a Russian pianist. Born in Moscow, she studied with Anaida Sumbatyan at the Moscow Central Music School. Later at the Moscow Conservatoire she was the last student of the legendary Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser - associate and friend of Alexander Scriabin, Sergei...

  • Giuseppe Albanese
    Giuseppe Albanese
    - Early years :Giuseppe began studying the piano at the age of five and graduated in 1996 at Conservatory "G. Rossini " in Pesaro under the guidance of Annamaria Cristina Raffa....

  • Isaac Albéniz
    Isaac Albéniz
    Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...

  • Pedro Albéniz
    Pedro Albéniz
    Pedro Albéniz y Basanta was a Spanish pianist and composer. He was unrelated to Isaac Albéniz.Albéniz was born Logroño, La Rioja. He began his studies with his father Mateo Albéniz, a notable church musician in Spain...

  • Eugen d'Albert
    Eugen d'Albert
    Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria...

  • Charlie Albright
    Charlie Albright
    Charlie Albright is an American-born classical pianist. He is a 2010 Gilmore Young Artist, an official Steinway Artist, and is under management with Young Concert Artists, Inc...

  • Dimitri Alexeev
    Dimitri Alexeev
    -Life:Dmitri Alexeev was a student at the Moscow Conservatory. He also studied under Dmitri Bashkirov. In the 1970s he made his debut in London, Vienna, Chicago and New York...

  • Charles-Valentin Alkan
    Charles-Valentin Alkan
    Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso...

  • Victor Aller
    Victor Aller
    Victor Aller was an American pianist.He had a successful career behind the scenes in the film industry, and he taught piano in Hollywood, where his students sometimes included actors preparing to depict musicians on screen, such as Dirk Bogarde and Cornel Wilde...

  • Ilse von Alpenheim
    Ilse von Alpenheim
    -Biography:Born at Innsbruck, she was trained by her mother, a piano teacher, and made her first public appearance as soloist at the age of nine in Joseph Haydn's piano concerto Hob. XVIII,11. Starting from 1944 she studied with Winfried Wolf in Kitzbühel and, from 1946 to 1949, with Franz...

  • Louis Demetrius Alvanis
    Louis Demetrius Alvanis
    Louis Demetrius Alvanis is a classical pianist. He is of Greek origins.Alvanis performs the full range of keyboard repertoire from the Baroque masters to contemporary serious music. He is particularly noted for his performances of the Romantics, especially Chopin, Schumann and Brahms some of which...


An-Ax

  • Géza Anda
    Géza Anda
    Géza Anda was a Hungarian pianist. A celebrated interpreter of classical and romantic repertoire, particularly noted for his performances and recordings of Mozart, he was also a tremendous interpreter of Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms and Bartók....

  • Mark Anderson
    Mark Anderson
    Mark Anderson is a journalist and author based in western Massachusetts. He has written for Harper's, The Boston Globe, Wired, Science, and the Rolling Stone and is a regular contributor to New Scientist and Wired News.Anderson is a proponent of the Oxfordian theory that the Elizabethan court...

  • Piotr Anderszewski
    Piotr Anderszewski
    Piotr Anderszewski is a Polish-Hungarian pianist.- Biography :Anderszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland. He attended conservatories in Lyon and Strasbourg, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles.- Career...

  • Leif Ove Andsnes
    Leif Ove Andsnes
    Leif Ove Andsnes is a Norwegian pianist and an ardent champion of the works of Edvard Grieg.-Biography:He studied with Jiří Hlinka at the Bergen Music Conservatory and made his debut in Oslo in 1987, in Britain at the Edinburgh Festival with the Oslo Philharmonic in 1989, and in the United States...

  • Nicholas Angelich
    Nicholas Angelich
    Nicholas Angelich is an American pianist.Born in the United States, he began to study the piano with his mother at the age of five. He gave his first concert at the age of seven, with a chamber orchestra in the United States, when he performed Mozart's piano concerto in C major, K.467...

  • Agustin Anievas
    Agustin Anievas
    Agustin Anievas is an American pianist, specializing in the works of Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff....

  • Eteri Andjaparidze
    Eteri Andjaparidze
    Eteri Andjaparidze is a Georgian/American pianist and pedagogue. Born on September 15, 1956, to the family of musicians in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Andjaparidze received her first piano lessons from her pianist mother Yvette Bachtadze. Her father Zurab Andjaparidze was the leading tenor with...

  • Conrad Ansorge
    Conrad Ansorge
    Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge was a German pianist, teacher and composer. He was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886. He toured Europe and the United States...

  • Anton Arensky
    Anton Arensky
    Anton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine...

  • Martha Argerich
    Martha Argerich
    Martha Argerich is an Argentine pianist.-Early life:Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three...

  • Yvonne Arnaud
    Yvonne Arnaud
    Yvonne Arnaud was a French-born pianist, singer and actress.Germaine Yvonne Arnaud was born in 1892. She entered the Paris Conservatoire at age 9, studying piano under Alphonse Duvernoy and other teachers...

  • Claudio Arrau
    Claudio Arrau
    Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Debussy...

  • Lydia Artymiw
    Lydia Artymiw
    Lydia Artymiw is an American concert pianist.Artymiw was born in Philadelphia to Ukrainian parents and began piano studies at age four with George Oransky at the Ukrainian Music Institute...

  • Vladimir Ashkenazy
    Vladimir Ashkenazy
    Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...

  • Stefan Askenase
    Stefan Askenase
    Stefan Askenase was a Polish-born Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue.-Biography:Askenase was born in Lemberg. He studied with Theodor Pollak, a professor and director of the Ludwik Marek School of Music in Lemberg. Then with Emil von Sauer, a pupil of Liszt, at the Vienna Academy of Music...

  • Ebba d'Aubert
    Ebba d'Aubert
    Ebba d'Aubert, née Bergström was a Swedish concert pianist.She was married to the second concert conductor at the Kungliga Hovkapellet, violinist Theodor Adolf Eduard d’Aubert. She became an Associé of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1849.- References :*http://runeberg.org/muslex/0033.html...

  • Lera Auerbach
    Lera Auerbach
    Lera Auerbach is a Russian-born American composer and pianist.-Early life & education:Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. She holds degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition...

  • Adele Aus der Ohe
    Adele Aus der Ohe
    Adele Aus der Ohe was a German pianist and composer.Aus der Ohe was born in Hanover. She initially studied with Theodor Kullak, where American pianist and chronicler Amy Fay heard her...

  • Myriam Avalos
    Myriam Avalos
    Myriam Avalos is a classical pianist.-Life:She began to study the piano at age two. She gave her first public performance at age three, and shortly after that was admitted to the National Conservatory of Music in Lima. She studied there with Luisa Negri and Teresa Quesada...

  • Valda Aveling
    Valda Aveling
    Valda Rose Aveling OBE was an Australian pianist, harpsichordist and clavichordist. Her repertoire was very wide, including composers as diverse as William Byrd, Jan Sweelinck, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Béla Bartók....

  • Emanuel Ax
    Emanuel Ax
    Emanuel Ax is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is currently a teacher on the faculty of the Juilliard School. He is considered one of the best known concert pianists of the 21st century.-Early life:...


Bab-Ban

  • Sergei Babayan
    Sergei Babayan
    Sergei Babayan is an Armenian-American concert pianist.-Biography:Babayan began his musical studies at age six with Luisa Markaryan. He studied under Lev Naumov and at the Moscow Conservatory under Vera Gornostayeva and Mikhail Pletnev. In 1989 Babayan travelled to the United States...

  • Stanley Babin
    Stanley Babin
    -Life:Babin was born in in 1932 in to Lydia and David Babin, a rabbi. He had four siblings. The family emigrated to Tel Aviv in 1933 where he studied music with Frank Pelleg and made his official debut at Museum Hall in 1945...

  • Victor Babin
    Vronsky & Babin
    Vronsky & Babin were regarded by many as one of the foremost duo-piano teams of the twentieth century. Vitya Vronsky was born in Yevpatoria . Victor Babin was born in Moscow, Russia...

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    right|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

  • Gina Bachauer
    Gina Bachauer
    Gina Bachauer , was a Greek classical pianist who toured extensively in the United States and Europe....

  • Walter Bache
    Walter Bache
    Walter Bache was an English pianist and conductor noted for his championing the music of Franz Liszt and other music of the New German School in England. He studied privately with Liszt in Italy from 1863 to 1865, one of the few students allowed to do so, and continued to attend Liszt's master...

  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
  • Wilhelm Backhaus
    Wilhelm Backhaus
    Wilhelm Backhaus was a German pianist and pedagogue.Born in Leipzig, Backhaus studied at the conservatoire there with Alois Reckendorf until 1899, later taking private piano lessons with Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt...

  • Farhad Badalbeyli
    Farhad Badalbeyli
    Farhad Shamsi oglu Badalbeyli is an Azerbaijani pianist and composer.He is the son of Leyla and Shamsi Badalbeyli.Badalbeyli, a People's Artist of the USSR , won in 1968, ex-aequo with Viktoria Postnikova, the 4th edition of Lisbon' Vianna da Motta International Music Competition...

  • Paul Badura-Skoda
    Paul Badura-Skoda
    Paul Badura-Skoda is an Austrian pianist.He won first prize in the Austrian Music Competition in 1947. In 1949, he performed with distinguished conductors like Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan...

  • Ryszard Bakst
    Ryszard Bakst
    Ryszard Bakst was a Polish and British pianist and piano teacher of Jewish/Polish/Russian origin.Bakst was a descendant of the Russian artist Leon Bakst...

  • Mily Balakirev
    Mily Balakirev
    Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev ,Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style. Dates in the article are taken verbatim from the source and therefore are in the same style as the source...

  • Dalton Baldwin
    Dalton Baldwin
    Dalton Baldwin is an American collaborative pianist. He has made over 100 recordings and has won numerous prizes working with Elly Ameling and Gérard Souzay.-External links:*...

  • Ernö Balogh
    Erno Balogh
    Ernő Balogh was a Hungarian pianist, composer, editor, and teacher. He was born on April 4, 1897 in Budapest, Hungary and died on June 2, 1989 in Mitchellville, Maryland, USA.-Biography:...

  • Arthur Balsam
    Arthur Balsam
    Artur Balsam was a Polish-born American classical pianist and pedagogue.-Biography:...

  • Joseph Banowetz
    Joseph Banowetz
    Joseph Banowetz December 5, 1936, is an American-born pianist, pedagogue, author, and editor, currently teaching at the University of North Texas...


Bar-Bay

  • Daniel Barenboim
    Daniel Barenboim
    Daniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....

  • Simon Barere
    Simon Barere
    Simon Barere was a renowned Russian pianist. His Russian surname Барер is transliterated Barer, however, as an adult he changed the spelling to Barere in order to reduce the frequency of mispronunciation.-Biography:...

  • David Bar-Illan
    David Bar-Illan
    David Bar-Illan was an internationally acclaimed pianist, author and columnist. Bar-Illan also served as Executive Editor of the Jerusalem Post, Israel's leading English-language newspaper, before becoming Director of Communications & Policy Planning for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

  • Heinrich Barth
    Heinrich Barth
    Heinrich Barth was a German explorer of Africa and scholar.Barth is one of the greatest of the European explorers of Africa, not necessarily because of the length of his travels or the time he spent alone without European company in Africa, but because of his singular character.-Biography:Barth...

  • Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók
    Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

  • Dimitri Bashkirov
  • Leon Bates
  • Harold Bauer
    Harold Bauer
    Harold Bauer was a noted pianist who began his musical career as a violinist.Harold Bauer was born in London; his father was a German violinist and his mother was English. He took up the study of the violin under the direction of his father and Adolf Pollitzer. He made his debut as a violinist in...

  • Paul Baumgartner
    Paul Baumgartner
    Paul Baumgartner was a Swiss pianist.Born in Altstätten, Switzerland, he studied piano and composition with Walter Braunfels in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and with Eduard Erdmann in Köln where he subsequently taught...

  • Jens Harald Bratlie
    Jens Harald Bratlie
    Jens Harald Bratlie is a Norwegian pianist. He has studied in Oslo, Paris and London, and made his debut at the age of 17 in Oslo in 1965...


Beb-Ben

  • Betty Beecham (Lady Betty Humby Beecham)
  • Jozef De Beenhouwer
    Jozef De Beenhouwer
    Jozef De Beenhouwer is a Belgian pianist, music teacher and musicologist.-Biography:His first teacher, with whom he started at the age of five, was his paternal grandfather. Even as a child and adolescent, he became acquainted with a vast repertoire, and developed a special preference for music...

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

  • Victor Bendix
    Victor Bendix
    Victor Emanuel Bendix was a Jewish Danish composer, conductor and pianist. His teachers included Niels Gade....

  • William Sterndale Bennett
    William Sterndale Bennett
    Sir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer. He ranks as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic school-Biography:...

  • Nelly Ben-Or
    Nelly Ben-Or
    Nelly Nechama Ben-Or, also known as Nelly Ben-Or Clynes, was born in 1933 in Lwow in Poland. She is an international concert pianist and a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she has taught the piano and the Alexander Technique since 1975. She is also a Holocaust...


Ber-Beu

  • Boris Berezovsky
    Boris Berezovsky (pianist)
    - Biography :Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz. Following his London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1988, The Times described him as "an artist of exceptional promise, a player of dazzling virtuosity and formidable power."In May 2005...

  • Martin Berkofsky
    Martin Berkofsky
    Martin Berkofsky is an American classical pianist known primarily for his interpretations of music by Franz Liszt and Alan Hovhaness. He has performed extensively throughout Europe as well as in Turkey and Armenia....

  • Bart Berman
    Bart Berman
    Bart Berman is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music....

  • Boris Berman
    Boris Berman
    Boris Berman is a Russian pianist and pedagogue .He was a student of Lev Oborin at the Moscow Conservatory. He made his debut in Moscow in 1965. He joined an early music ensemble, at the time the only one in Russia, as a harpsichordist. At the same time he worked with contemporary composers such...

  • Lazar Berman
    Lazar Berman
    Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist. As a technician, Berman was extraordinary in terms of sheer evenness, control, and rhythmic panache, yet he always channeled his considerable craft toward musical ends....

  • Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...

  • Henri Bertini
    Henri Bertini
    Henri Jérôme Bertini was a French classical composer and pianist.- Life :Henri Jérôme Bertini was born in London on October 28, 1798, but his family returned to Paris six months later. He received his early musical education from his father and his brother, a pupil of Muzio Clementi...

  • Raffi Besalyan
    Raffi Besalyan
    Raffi Besalyan is an Armenian Concert Pianist and is associate professor of piano at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. He was formerly a member of the faculty of Rowan University in New Jersey, U.S.A...

  • Stephen Beus
    Stephen Beus
    Stephen Beus is an American pianist.-Biography:Stephen Beus began taking piano lessons at age 5, and made his symphonic debut at age 9. He won the MTNA National Competition at the high school level at age 17, and later won the same competition again at age 21 at the collegiate level...


Bi-Bl

  • Philippe Bianconi
    Philippe Bianconi
    Philippe Bianconi is a French pianist.Philippe Bianconi studied at the Nice conservatoire with Simone Delbert-Février and later with Gaby Casadesus in Paris and Vitalij Margulis in Freiburg...

  • Fabio Bidini
    Fabio Bidini
    Fabio Bidini is an Italian pianist. He was a finalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth in 1993. In addition, he teaches at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany.-External links:***...

  • Malcolm Bilson
    Malcolm Bilson
    Malcolm Bilson is an American pianist specializing in performance on the fortepiano, which is the 18th century version of the piano. Bilson is the Frederick J...

  • İdil Biret
    Idil Biret
    İdil Biret is a Turkish concert pianist, renowned for her interpretations of the Romantic repertoire.-Education:...

  • Tessa Birnie
    Tessa Birnie
    Tessa Daphne Birnie, OAM was an internationally acclaimed New Zealand and Australian concert pianist.Birnie was born in Ashburton, on the South Island of New Zealand, in 1934. She first heard a piano in a local hall when she was three or four, and decided then that the piano was to be her destiny...

  • Hans Bischoff
    Hans Bischoff
    Hans Bischoff was a German entomologist from Berlin.He was Kustos or curator of Hymenoptera at Museum für Naturkunde from 1921 until 1955.-Selected works:...

  • Georges Bizet
    Georges Bizet
    Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...

  • William Black
    William Black (pianist)
    William David Black was an American pianist and teacher.-Biography:He was born in Dallas, Texas. He had a sister, Beverley, and a brother, the pianist, conductor and composer Robert Black...

  • Rafał Blechacz
  • Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
    Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
    Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist.- Biography :Zeisler was born Fannie Blumenfeld on July 16, 1863, in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia. She emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 4 in 1867. The family settled in Chicago, Illinois where they later changed...

  • Felix Blumenfeld
    Felix Blumenfeld
    Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld was a Russian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher.He was born in Kovalevka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire , the son of Austrian Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld and the Polish Marie Szymanowska, and studied composition at the St...

  • Felicja Blumental
    Felicja Blumental
    Felicja Blumental was a Polish--Brazilian pianist.Felicja Blumental was born in Warsaw, Poland, into a musical family, daughter of a violinist. She began piano lessons at the age of five, and made her debut at the age of ten...

  • Daniel Blumenthal
    Daniel Blumenthal (pianist)
    Daniel Blumenthal is a German-born American pianist.Daniel Blumenthal was born in Landstuhl, Germany in September, 1952. His first music studies at age 5 in Paris. Later on he enrolled at American University in Washington, D.C., then continued studies at the University of Michigan, where he...


Bo

  • Mary Louise Boehm
    Mary Louise Boehm
    Mary Louise Boehm was a pianist and painter who was born on July 25, 1928 in Sumner, Iowa and died on November 29, 2002 in Spain.Mary Louise Boehm was a descendant of Joseph Böhm, a piano maker active in Vienna during the early 19th century. Born in Iowa, her early aptitude for the piano earned her...

  • Gergely Bogányi
    Gergely Bogányi
    Coming from a musical family, Gergely Bogányi is one of the youngest ever pianists to have won the Kossuth Prize, becoming one of the leading pianists of his generation.- Education :...

  • Jorge Bolet
    Jorge Bolet
    Jorge Bolet was a Cuban-born but mostly American-resident pianist and teacher.-Life:Bolet was born in Havana, and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he himself taught from 1939 to 1942...

  • Stefano Bollani
    Stefano Bollani
    Stefano Bollani is an Italian jazz pianist from Milan.He made his professional debut at fifteen and received his diploma in piano from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence. He performs classical music, smooth jazz, avant-garde jazz, Brazilian jazz, and pop rock...

  • Marie-Léontine Bordes-Pène
    Marie-Léontine Bordes-Pène
    Marie-Léontine Bordes-Pène was notable French pianist, who premiered major works by César Franck, Vincent d'Indy and others....

  • Victor Borge
    Victor Borge
    Victor Borge ,born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark,The Unmelancholy Dane,and The Great Dane.-Early life and career:...

  • Sergei Bortkiewicz
    Sergei Bortkiewicz
    Sergei Bortkiewicz was a Ukrainian-born Russian Romantic composer and pianist.-Early life:Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine on 28 February 1877 in Polish noble family and spent most of his childhood on the family estate of Artëmovka, near Kharkiv...

  • Leonard Borwick
    Leonard Borwick
    Leonard Borwick was an English concert pianist especially associated with the music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.- Early training and debuts :...

  • Nadia Boulanger
    Nadia Boulanger
    Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

  • Hendrik Bouman
    Hendrik Bouman
    Hendrik "Henk" Bouman is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th & 18th Century.- Biography :...

  • Andreas Boyde
    Andreas Boyde
    - Biography :Andreas Boyde was born in Oschatz, Saxony.He has appeared in recital as well as soloist with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Radio Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra,...

  • Emma Boynet
    Emma Boynet
    Emma Boynet was a French pianist.Emma Boynet studied with Isidor Philipp at the Paris Conservatoire, and remained closely associated with Philipp until his death...


Bra-Bro

  • Vera Bradford
    Vera Bradford
    Vera Florence Bradford was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired for its depth and beauty of tone, classical unity and tremendous power....

  • Alexander Braginsky
    Alexander Braginsky
    -Life and work:He studied at the Moscow conservatory with Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, and, after Goldenweiser's death in 1961, with Theodore Gutman. In the early 1970s, he left Russia with his wife, Tatiana Remenikova, never to visit again until 2004...

  • Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

  • Alexander Brailowsky
    Alexander Brailowsky
    Alexander Brailowsky was a Ukrainian French pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin. He was a leading concert pianist in the years between the two World Wars.-Early life:...

  • Natan Brand
    Natan Brand
    Natan Brand was an Israeli classical pianist.-Biography:Brand was the son of a doctor, Aron Brand, and his wife, Mala, who immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939. The family settled in Jerusalem. Brand began his studies as a child prodigy at the age of seven, with Haim Alexander at the Rubin...

  • Louis Brassin
    Louis Brassin
    Louis Brassin was a Belgian pianist, composer and music educator. He is best known now for his piano transcription of the Magic Fire Music from Wagner's Die Walküre.-Career:...

  • Ronald Brautigam
    Ronald Brautigam
    Ronald Brautigam is currently one of The Netherlands' most widely respected pianists.Born in Amsterdam, Brautigam studied with Jan Wijn and left to study in London and in the United States...

  • Alfred Brendel
    Alfred Brendel
    Alfred Brendel KBE is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia and a resident of the United Kingdom. He is also a poet and author.-Biography:...

  • Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten
    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...

  • Yefim Bronfman
    Yefim Bronfman
    Yefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.-Biography:He was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, and emigrated to Israel at the age of 15...

  • Ian Brown
    Ian Brown
    Ian George Brown is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses, which broke up in 1996 but are confirmed to reunite in 2012. Since the break-up of the Stone Roses he has pursued a solo career...

  • Edwin Orion Brownell
    Edwin Orion Brownell
    Edwin Orion Brownell was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is a neo-classical composer and concert pianist whose original music has been described as highly melodic; a strong blues influence upon a solid classical foundation.-History:...

  • John Browning
    John Browning (pianist)
    John Browning was an American pianist known for his reserved, elegant style and sophisticated interpretations of Bach and Scarlatti, and for his collaboration with the American composer Samuel Barber.-Biography:...


Bu-By

  • Rudolf Buchbinder
    Rudolf Buchbinder
    Rudolf Buchbinder is an Austrian classical pianist.-Biography:Buchbinder studied with Bruno Seidlhofer at the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1965 he made a tour of North and South America. In 1966 he won a special prize awarded at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition...

  • Sara Davis Buechner
    Sara Davis Buechner
    Sara Davis Buechner is an American concert pianist and educator. She has been an assistant professor of piano at the University of British Columbia since 2003, and was formerly a member of the faculties of Manhattan School of Music and New York University.Buechner received her bachelor's and...

  • Richard Buhlig
    Richard Buhlig
    Richard Buhlig was an American pianist.Buhlig was born in Chicago, where he received his early training. In 1897 he moved to Vienna to study under Teodor Leszetycki. Upon completing his studies in 1900, he gave his first public concert in 1901 in Berlin, and toured extensively in Europe until late...

  • Hans von Bülow
    Hans von Bülow
    Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. He was one of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, and his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time, including Richard...

  • Josef Bulva
    Josef Bulva
    Josef Bulva is a Czech pianist who began his training at the age of nine at the music school of Napajedla, and at the age of thirteen gave his first concerts playing works by Mozart, études by Liszt and the “Paganini Variations” by Brahms...

  • Khatia Buniatishvili
    Khatia Buniatishvili
    Khatia Buniatishvili is a Georgian concert pianist.-Biography:Khatia Buniatishvili began studying piano under her mother at age 3. She gave her first concert with the Chamber Orchestra in Tbilissi at the age of 6 and started performing abroad at the age of 10...

  • Stanislav Bunin
    Stanislav Bunin
    Stanislav Stanislavovich Bunin is a Russian-born pianist.He was born in Moscow in 1966 into an established European musical family which included his grandfather Heinrich Neuhaus and his grandmother Zinaida ....

  • Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller
    Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller
    Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, generally known as Friedrich Burgmüller was a German pianist and composer.-Biography:...

  • Winifred Burston
    Winifred Burston
    Winifred Charlotte Hillier Crosse Burston was an Australian pianist and teacher.She was born near Caboolture, Queensland, of English-born parents, raised in Brisbane, and taught by her mother, an accomplished pianist. She studied first in Berlin from 1908, under Theodore Bohlmann...

  • Ferruccio Busoni
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...

  • Winifred Byrd
    Winifred Byrd
    Winifred Byrd was an American concert pianist and educator.-Education:...


Ca-Ce

  • Sarah Cahill
    Sarah Cahill (pianist)
    Sarah Cahill , an American pianist born in Washington, D.C., is a long-time resident of Berkeley, California. She is best known for performances of new works, many of them written for her...

  • Michele Campanella
    Michele Campanella
    Michele Campanella is an Italian pianist who specialises in the music of Franz Liszt, and is also a conductor.Campanella was born in Naples in 1947. He won the Alfredo Casella Prize at age 19, after studying with Vincenzo Vitale...

  • Bruno Canino
    Bruno Canino
    Bruno Canino is an Italian classical pianist and composer.-Early life:Bruno Canino was born in Naples, Italy in 1935, where he studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale. He continued his musical education in Milan, studying both piano and composition. His teachers included Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli...

  • John Carmichael
    John Carmichael (composer)
    John Carmichael OAM is an Australian pianist, composer and music therapist who has long been resident in the United Kingdom. One of his best known works is the Concierto folklorico for piano and string orchestra. His works for piano form much of his musical output, although he composes for many...

  • Roberto Carnevale
    Roberto Carnevale
    Roberto Carnevale is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Biography and career :Born in Catania, he started studying piano at the age of seven. He took a degree in Arts at the University of Catania and he attended the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena...

  • Teresa Carreño
    Teresa Carreño
    María Teresa Carreño García de Sena was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.Born into a musical family, she was at first taught by her father, then by Mathias, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Anton Rubinstein and her talent was recognized at an early age...

  • Alfred Cortot
    Alfred Cortot
    Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians, especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.-Early life and education:Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the...

  • Gaby Casadesus
    Gaby Casadesus
    Gaby Casadesus was a French classical pianist and teacher born in Marseilles, France. She was married to the famous French pianist Robert Casadesus, and their son Jean Casadesus was also a notable pianist....

  • Jean Casadesus
    Jean Casadesus
    Jean Casadesus was a French classical pianist. He was the son of the renowned pianists Robert and Gaby Casadesus, and grandnephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus.Jean Casadesus was born in Paris...

  • Robert Casadesus
    Robert Casadesus
    Robert Casadesus was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus.-Biography:Robert Casadesus was born in Paris...

  • Gianluca Cascioli
    Gianluca Cascioli
    Gianluca Cascioli is an Italian pianist, conductor, and composer.He studied composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin and piano with Franco Scala. In 1994, Cascioli won the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition, whose jury included Luciano Berio, Elliot Carter, Charles...

  • Ricardo Castro
    Ricardo Castro
    Ricardo Castro Herrera was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the time of Porfirio Díaz.- Life :Castro's father, Vicente Castro, was a deputy congressman; his mother was María de Jesús Herrera...

  • Boris Cepeda
    Boris Cepeda
    Boris Cepeda is a German-Ecuadorian Pianist and Diplomat.- Biography :Boris Cepeda got his first piano lessons at four...


Ch-Cl

  • Cécile Chaminade
    Cécile Chaminade
    Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade was a French composer and pianist.-Biography:Born in Paris, she studied at first with her mother, then with Félix Le Couppey, Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard, Martin Pierre Marsick and Benjamin Godard, but not officially, since her father disapproved of her musical...

  • Alton Chung Ming Chan
    Alton Chung Ming Chan
    Alton Chung Ming Chan 陳 忠 明 Chinese-American-Canadian pianist, pedagogue, choral and orchestral conductor, author, editor, video director and producer.- Biography :Dr...

  • Abram Chasins
    Abram Chasins
    Abram Chasins was an American composer, pianist, piano teacher, lecturer, musicologist, music broadcaster, radio executive and author....

  • Chen Sa
  • Shura Cherkassky
    Shura Cherkassky
    Shura Cherkassky was an American classical pianist known for his performances of the romantic repertoire. His playing was characterized by a virtuoso technique and singing piano tone...

  • Gian Paolo Chiti
    Gian Paolo Chiti
    Gian Paolo Chiti is an Italian composer and pianist.After beginning his studies in piano, violin and composition at the age of four, he made a series of appearances as a child prodigy before entering the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy's most important music school, at the age...

  • Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

  • Daniel Chorzempa
    Daniel Chorzempa
    Daniel Walter Chorzempa is an American organist.He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and subsently studied music at the University of Minnesota and Cologne...

  • Winifred Christie
    Winifred Christie
    Winifred Christie was a British pianist and composer best known as an advocate of the Moór-Duplex piano.-The Moór-Duplex piano:...

  • Marcel Ciampi
    Marcel Ciampi
    Marcel Paul Maximin Ciampi was a French pianist and teacher. He held the longest tenure in the history of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and also became head of piano classes at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England...

  • Dino Ciani
    Dino Ciani
    Dino Ciani was an Italian pianist.Ciani was born in Fiume and studied piano with Martha Del Vecchio in Genoa. He obtained his diploma at the Conservatory in Rome at the age of 14 and in 1958-1962 attended the advanced courses of Alfred Cortot, whom he most revered, in Paris, Lausanne and Siena...

  • Aldo Ciccolini
    Aldo Ciccolini
    Aldo Ciccolini , is an Italian-French pianist.-Biography:Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples. His father, who bore the title of Marquis of Macerara, worked as a typographer. He took his first lessons with Maria Vigliarolo d'Ovidio, and entered Naples Conservatory in 1934 at the age of 9, by special...

  • Tamara Anna Cislowska
    Tamara Anna Cislowska
    Tamara Anna Cislowska is an Australian concert pianist and chamber musician. She has performed across most of the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Germany, Colombia, Greece, The Netherlands and Poland, and has associated with the Philharmonia, the London...

  • Muzio Clementi
    Muzio Clementi
    Muzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...

  • Van Cliburn
    Van Cliburn
    Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958 at age 23, when he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War....

  • France Clidat
    France Clidat
    France Clidat is a French pianist renowned for her interpretations of the works of Franz Liszt, a great many of which she has recorded, and Erik Satie, whose complete piano works she recorded....


Cod-Cop

  • Arnaldo Cohen
    Arnaldo Cohen
    -Biography:Cohen graduated in Engineering from the Federal University, Cohen also studied violin and piano and started his professional career as a violinist of the Rio de Janeiro Opera House Orchestra...

  • Harriet Cohen
    Harriet Cohen
    Harriet Cohen CBE was a British pianist.-Biography:Harriet Cohen was born in London and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay, having won the Ada Lewis scholarship at the age of 12. She made her debut at a Chappell's Sunday concert at the Queen's Hall a year later...

  • Naida Cole
    Naida Cole
    Naida Margaret Cole is a Canadian-American concert pianist who left a successful career as a recording artist and touring musician in 2007 to pursue medicine at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, where she is currently enrolled.Cole's website and Facebook pages state that she is a...

  • Edgar Coleman
    Edgar Coleman
    Edgar Coleman is an American Classical Pianist.The multi-talented virtuoso was a pupil of Ozan Marsh, Aube Tzerko .Mr. Coleman began piano studies at the age of four...

  • Jean-Philippe Collard
    Jean-Philippe Collard
    Jean-Philippe Collard is a renowned French pianist who is known for his interpretations of the works of Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns.Born into a musical family, he started playing the piano at age five...

  • Stephen Colletti
    Stephen Colletti
    Stephen August Colletti is an American actor and television personality. He was featured on the MTV reality show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. He also co-hosted MTV's Total Request Live...

  • Graziella Concas
    Graziella Concas
    Graziella Concas is an Italian pianist and composer.- Biography and career :She started studying piano at the age of five. Later she studied piano under Franca Zinghinì-Spinnicchia at the Catania Musical Institute ‘Vincenzo Bellini’, and composition under Angela Giuffrida...

  • Claudio Constantini
    Claudio Constantini
    Claudio Constantini is a pianist, bandoneonist and composer, born in Perú, and currently living in The Netherlands.Claudio Constantini was born into a family of musicians...

  • John Contiguglia
    Richard and John Contiguglia
    Richard and John Contiguglia are American classical duo pianists with a worldwide reputation, who consistently attract superlatives from critics....

  • Richard Contiguglia
    Richard and John Contiguglia
    Richard and John Contiguglia are American classical duo pianists with a worldwide reputation, who consistently attract superlatives from critics....

  • Stephen Coombs
    Stephen Coombs
    Stephen Coombs is one of Britain's best known pianists and currently works with some of the world's foremost orchestras and conductors, as well as performing as a solo artist.-Earlier life:...

  • Gary Cooper
    Gary Cooper (musician)
    Gary Cooper is an English conductor and classical keyboardist He is particularly known as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Bach and Mozart, and as a conductor of historically informed performances of music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods.-Career:Gary Cooper...

  • Imogen Cooper
    Imogen Cooper
    Imogen Cooper, CBE is an English pianist.Born in London, she is the daughter of the musicologist Martin Cooper. She studied piano in London with Kathleen Long, in Paris with Jacques Février and Yvonne Lefébure, and in Vienna with Alfred Brendel, Jörg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda...

  • Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...


Cr-Cz

  • Johann Baptist Cramer
    Johann Baptist Cramer
    Johann Baptist Cramer was an English musician of German origin. He was the son of Wilhelm Cramer, a famous London violinist and musical conductor, one of a numerous family who were identified with the progress of music during the 18th and 19th centuries.-Biography:Johann Baptist Cramer was born in...

  • Patrick Crommelynck
    Duo Crommelynck
    Duo Crommelynck was the name of a notable classical piano duo team active from 1974 to 1994, consisting of the Belgian Patrick Crommelynck and his Japanese-born wife Taeko Kuwata. In 1994, at the height of their fame, they committed suicide....

  • Tan Crone
    Tan Crone
    Tan Crone was a noted Dutch classical pianist...

  • Jill Crossland
    Jill Crossland
    Jill Crossland is an English pianist, born in Yorkshire. She studied with Ryszard Bakst at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Lancashire and with Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna...

  • Lamar Crowson
    Lamar Crowson
    John Lamar Crowson was an American concert pianist and a chamber musician....

  • Adlan Cruz
    Adlan Cruz
    Adlan Cruz is a Christian Puerto Rican pianist, composer and producer.Cruz began playing the piano by ear at the age of three. He released his first album in 1989....

  • Sir Clifford Curzon
    Clifford Curzon
    Sir Clifford Michael Curzon, CBE was an English pianist.-Early life:Clifford Michael Siegenberg was born in London to Michael and Constance Mary Siegenberg...

  • Halina Czerny-Stefańska
    Halina Czerny-Stefanska
    Halina Czerny-Stefańska was a Polish pianist.She studied piano under her father, Stanislaw Szwarcenberg-Czerny, as well as with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and later with Józef Turczyński and Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw...

  • Carl Czerny
    Carl Czerny
    Carl Czerny was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of études for the piano. Czerny's music was profoundly influenced by his teachers, Muzio Clementi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Antonio Salieri and Ludwig van Beethoven.-Early life:Carl Czerny was born...

  • Georges Cziffra
    Georges Cziffra
    Georges Cziffra was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist. He became a French citizen in 1968.Cziffra is most known for his dazzling recordings of Franz Liszt's virtuoso works...


Da

  • Edward Dannreuther
    Edward Dannreuther
    Edward Dannreuther was a German pianist and writer on music resident from 1863 in England. He trained as a musician at the Conservatoire at Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles, a severe critic of the music of Wagner and Franz Liszt...

  • Jeanne-Marie Darré
    Jeanne-Marie Darré
    Jeanne-Marie Darré was a French classical pianist. She was known for her lyrical and elegant interpretations of the solo works of Chopin and Liszt, and of the Saint-Saens Concertos. She was awarded the Légion d'honneur and made a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres.-Biography:Darré was born in Givet,...

  • Fanny Davies
    Fanny Davies
    Fanny Davies was an English pianist who was particularly admired in Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, and the early schools, but was also a very early London performer of the works of Debussy and Scriabin...

  • Bella Davidovich
    Bella Davidovich
    Bella Mikhaylovna Davidovich is a Jewish Soviet-born American pianist.Davidovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, into a family of musicians and began studying piano when she was six. Three years later, she was the soloist for a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. In 1939, she moved to...

  • Ivan Davis
    Ivan Davis
    Ivan Roy Davis, Jr. , is an American classical pianist.-The Early Years:Davis received his Bachelor of Music in 1952 from University of North Texas College of Music, and an Artist's Diploma, as a Fulbright Scholar, from the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome...


De

  • Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy
    Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

  • Sylviane Deferne
    Sylviane Deferne
    Sylviane Deferne is a Swiss pianist and musician.-Early musical education:Sylviane Deferne started studying the piano in the Conservatory of her hometown, and she soon won first prize of virtuosity with distinction...

  • Cor de Groot
    Cor de Groot
    Cor de Groot was a renowned Dutch pianist and composer.He was born in Amsterdam. He studied piano with Egbert Veen and Ulferts Schults, and composition and conducting under Sem Dresden. In 1932 he graduated with highest honours, playing a piano concerto written by himself...

  • Steven DeGroote
    Steven DeGroote
    Steven De Groote was a South African classical pianist.Steven De Groote was born in Johannesburg, South Africa into a Belgian family in which, for three generations, almost every member had been a professional musician. His grandmother was a recipient of the Prix de Rome in Belgium, and his father...

  • Élie-Miriam Delaborde
    Élie-Miriam Delaborde
    Eraïm-Miriam Delaborde, generally known as Élie-Miriam Delaborde was a French pianist and composer. He was also renowned as a player of the pedal piano....

  • Eduardo Delgado
    Eduardo Delgado
    Eduardo Delgado is an Argentine classical pianist and teacher, currently living in California. Born in Rosario, Argentina, he is a recipient of the Vladimir Horowitz Award and has received grants from the Mozarteum Argentino, Martha Baird Rockefeller, and the Concert Artists Guild. In 1999, he was...

  • Adelina de Lara
    Adelina de Lara
    Adelina de Lara OBE was a British classical pianist and composer.-Early life:She was born Lottie Adelina Preston in Carlisle, Cumberland on 23 January 1872 to parents George Matthew Tilbury of Southampton and Anna de Lara. Her grandfather was the Spanish Count Laurent de Lara...

  • Jörg Demus
    Jörg Demus
    Jörg Demus is an Austrian pianist.At the age of six, Demus received his first piano lessons. Five years later, at the age of 11, he entered the Vienna Academy of Music, studying piano and conducting. He graduated in 1945, then 17 years old...

  • Jeremy Denk
    Jeremy Denk
    Jeremy Denk is an American classical pianist. He has performed with numerous orchestras and presented world premieres by Jake Heggie, Libby Larsen, Kevin Puts, and Ned Rorem. He frequently performs with violinists Joshua Bell and Soovin Kim. He has recorded several chamber works as well as a solo...

  • Alicia de Larrocha
    Alicia de Larrocha
    Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle was a Spanish pianist from Catalonia. One of the great piano legends of the 20th century, Reuters called her "the greatest Spanish pianist in history", Time "one of the world's most outstanding pianists" and The Guardian "the leading Spanish pianist of her...

  • Vladimir de Pachmann
    Vladimir de Pachmann
    Vladimir von Pachmann or Pachman was a pianist of Russian-German ethnicity, especially noted for performing the works of Chopin, and also for his eccentric on-stage style.-Biography:...

  • Nikolai Demidenko
    Nikolai Demidenko
    Nikolai Demidenko is a Russian pianist.Demidenko studied at the Moscow Gnessin School with Anna Kantor and at the Moscow Conservatoire under Dmitri Bashkirov. Demidenko was a medallist at the 1976 Montreal International Piano Competition and the 1978 Tchaikovsky International Competition...

  • William Denis Browne
    William Denis Browne
    William Charles Denis Browne , primarily known as Billy to family and as Denis to his friends, was a British composer, pianist, organist and music critic of the early 20th century. He and his close friend, poet Rupert Brooke, were commissioned into the Royal Naval Division together shortly after...


Di-Du

  • Misha Dichter
    Misha Dichter
    Misha Dichter is a classical pianist who was born in Shanghai to Polish-Jewish parents who fled Europe at the outbreak of World War II.-Biography:...

  • Louis Diémer
    Louis Diémer
    Louis-Joseph Diémer was a French pianist and composer.- Life :Diémer studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning premiers prix in piano, harmony and accompaniment, counterpoint and fugue, and solfège, and a second prix in organ...

  • Simone Dinnerstein
    Simone Dinnerstein
    Simone Dinnerstein is an American classical pianist who became celebrated, both critically and commercially, for her self-financed recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, released in 2007.-Education:...

  • Paul Doguereau
    Paul Doguereau
    Paul René Doguereau was a French pianist and piano teacher. He spent most of his career in Boston, United States, where he was a well-respected cultural figure.- Education :...

  • Ernő Dohnányi
    Erno Dohnányi
    Ernő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions....

  • Peter Donohoe
  • Barry Douglas
    Barry Douglas
    Barry Douglas OBE is a classical pianist and conductor. He studied piano, cello, clarinet and organ while growing up in Belfast. He first studied in Belfast while attending Methodist College Belfast and, at 16, had lessons with Felicitas LeWinter, a pupil of Emil von Sauer and grand-pupil of...

  • Marylene Dosse
    Marylene Dosse
    Marylene Dosse is a French-born pianist currently a US citizen, living in the United States.-Biography:Ms Dosse was born in Domfront in Normandy, France - the only place in which her mother could find a hospital which had not been taken over by the invading German armed forces.She entered the...

  • William Jonathan Drayton, Jr.
  • Alexander Dreyschock
    Alexander Dreyschock
    Alexander Dreyschock was a Czech pianist and composer.Born in Žáky in Bohemia, his musical talents were first noticed at age of eight, and at age fifteen he travelled to Prague to study piano and composition with Václav Tomášek...

  • Zbigniew Drzewiecki
    Zbigniew Drzewiecki
    Zbigniew Drzewiecki was a Polish pianist especially associated with the interpretation of Chopin's works, who was for most of his life a teacher of pianists. His pupils include several famous pianists of the 20th century, and his influence was therefore very pervasive.Drzewiecki was born in Warsaw...

  • Jean Dubé
    Jean Dubé
    Jean F. Dubé was a Progressive Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2000....

  • Florence Kirsch Du Brul
    Florence Kirsch Du Brul
    Florence Kirsch Du Brul was a concert pianist and master piano teacher and member of Chicago society in the mid-20th century....

  • François-René Duchâble
    François-René Duchâble
    François-René Duchâble is a French pianist. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, and at the age of 13 won the institution's first prize in piano. Three years later, he placed 11th at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, and in 1973 he won the Prix de la Fondation Sacha Schneider...

  • Jan Ladislav Dussek
    Jan Ladislav Dussek
    Jan Ladislav Dussek was a Czech composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century...


Ec-Er

  • Severin von Eckardstein
    Severin von Eckardstein
    Severin Von Eckardstein is a German classical pianist. He was born in 1978 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and took his first piano lessons when he was six years old....

  • Bracha Eden
    Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir
    Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir were Israeli duo pianists and teachers.Bracha Eden was born on 15 July 1928, in Jerusalem. Alexander Tamir was born as Alexander Wolkovsky on 2 April 1931, in Vilnius, Lithuania...

  • Richard Egarr
    Richard Egarr
    Richard Egarr is a British keyboard performer and conductor. He received his musical training as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and as organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge...

  • Pavel Egorov
    Pavel Egorov
    Pavel Egorov is a Russian pianist and scholar.He won the VI Robert Schumann Competition before graduating in 1975 from the Moscow Conservatory. He has performed widely at an international level since...

  • Youri Egorov
    Youri Egorov
    Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov was a Soviet classical pianist.-Early years:Born in Kazan, USSR, Youri Egorov studied music at the Kazan Conservatory from the age of 6 until age 17. One of his early teachers was Irina Dubinina, a former pupil of Yakov Zak ....

  • Severin Eisenberger
    Severin Eisenberger
    Severin Eisenberger |Galicia]] - 1945, New York) was a Polish-born concert pianist and teacher.Eisenberger was a student of Heinrich Ehrlich in Berlin and Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna. He made his debut at the age of 10 in Krakow in a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto no.2 in B-flat...

  • Abdel Rahman El Bacha
    Abdel Rahman El Bacha
    Abdel Rahman El Bacha is a Lebanese pianist and composer.His repertory includes over fifty concertos and is largely based on the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Prokofiev .-Biography:...

  • Dror Elimelech
    Dror Elimelech
    Dror Elimelech is an Israeli psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and poet, and a composer and performer of contemporary classical music....

  • Michael Endres
    Michael Endres
    Michael Endres is a German pianist.He was professor for piano from 1993 to 2004 at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Cologne, until 2009 at the Hochschule Hanns Eisler in Berlin—and since autumn 2009 has been professor for piano at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.-Early...

  • Per Enflo
    Per Enflo
    Per H. Enflo is a mathematician who has solved fundamental problems in functional analysis. Three of these problems had been open for more than forty years:* The basis problem and the approximation problem and later...

  • Karl Engel
    Karl Engel
    Karl Engel was a Swiss pianist.In 1952 Engel was awarded the second prize at the Queen Elisabeth competition. Throughout his concert career he cultivated the art song repertory and worked extensively on works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann...

  • Philippe Entremont
    Philippe Entremont
    Philippe Entremont is a French pianist and conductor. He has made many recordings during his career, notably one in 1961 of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic....

  • Julius Epstein
    Julius Epstein (pianist)
    Julius Epstein was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish pianist. He was a pupil at Agram of the choir-director Vatroslav Lichtenegger, and in Vienna of Johann Rufinatscha and Anton Halm...

  • Sandrine Erdely-Sayo
    Sandrine Erdely-Sayo
    Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, born October 11, 1968, in Perpignan, France, is a Jewish French-American pianist. She was a child prodigy who could play Bach and read music before knowing how to read a book.- Biography :...

  • Tzvi Erez
    Tzvi Erez
    Tzvi Erez is a classical pianist and an alleged organizer of a multi-million dollar ponzi scheme in Toronto.Erez was born in Israel and began to toy with the piano at the age of three, beginning to study it formally at six....


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  • Christoph Eschenbach
    Christoph Eschenbach
    Christoph Eschenbach , born February 20, 1940, Breslau, Germany is a German-born pianist and conductor. He currently holds positions in Washington, D.C. as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra and music director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.-Early...

  • Morton Estrin
    Morton Estrin
    Morton Estrin, the noted American pianist, was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1923. His career began in 1949 with a well-received recital at Town Hall. He studied with the noted teacher Vera Maurina-Press and others....

  • Róża Etkin-Moszkowska
    Róza Etkin-Moszkowska
    Róża Etkin , known after marriage as Róża Etkin-Moszkowska, was a Polish pianist.Etkin, who showed considerable talent early in life, was the youngest contestant at the inaugural Fryderyk Chopin Competition, where she was awarded the 3rd prize. She was a pupil of Aleksander Michałowski and Zbigniew...

  • Lindley Evans
    Lindley Evans
    Lindley Evans CMG was a South African-born Australian composer, pianist and teacher. He is best known for his collaboration with Frank Hutchens in a famous piano duet which lasted 41 years, and as the ABC's "Mr Melody Man" for 30 years.Harry Lindley Evans was born in Cape Town in 1895, to English...


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  • Mikhaïl Faerman
    Mikhaïl Faerman
    Mikhail Faerman is a Russian-Belgian classical pianist.He was born in 1955, in Beltsi, Moldavia, USSR. He started to study piano at the age of three....

  • Christopher Falzone
  • Edith Farnadi
    Edith Farnadi
    Edith Farnadi was a Hungarian pianist. She was born in Budapest and began her studies at the age of 7 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. She studied with Professor Arnold Székely . At the age of 9, she made her musical debut as a child prodigy...

  • Richard Farrell
    Richard Farrell
    Richard Farrell was a gifted New Zealand classical pianist who achieved almost legendary status, but whose flourishing career was cut short in a road accident at the age of 31...

  • Iain Farrington
    Iain Farrington
    Iain Farrington is a British pianist, organist, composer and arranger. He works regularly with some of the country's leading singers, instrumentalists and choirs, both in concert and as a répétiteur, as well as giving solo recitals...

  • Anna Fedorova
    Anna Fedorova
    Anna Fedorova is a Ukrainian concert pianist.- Biography :Fedorova was born in Kiev, Ukraine, into a family of musicians, and she began playing the piano at age five...

  • José Feghali
    José Feghali
    José Feghali is a Brazilian pianist, currently an Artist-in-Residence at TCU's school of music in piano. He was the Gold Medalist winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1985.- Education :...

  • Samuil Feinberg
    Samuil Feinberg
    Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. Raised in Moscow, he entered the Moscow Conservatory and studied under Alexander Goldenweiser. He is most remembered today for his complete recording of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier and many transcriptions. Feinberg...

  • Karishmeh Felfeli
    Karishmeh Felfeli
    Karishmeh Felfeli is a radio broadcaster, pianist, vocalist and creator of , a critically acclaimed classical music and arts radio program for Dublin City FM...

  • Till Fellner
    Till Fellner
    - Biography :Pianist Till Fellner was born in Vienna and studied at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien with Helene Sedo-Stadler, and subsequently with Alfred Brendel, Meira Farkas, Oleg Maisenberg and Claus-Christian Schuster. He won first prize in the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition...

  • Vladimir Feltsman
    Vladimir Feltsman
    Vladimir Feltsman is a Russian American classical pianist.Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky, Moscow, and Leningrad Vladimir Feltsman is a Russian American classical pianist.Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. He...

  • Albert Ferber
    Albert Ferber
    Albert Ferber was a Swiss pianist whose international performing career spanned four decades, taking him all over the world.-Training:...

  • Arthur Ferrante
    Ferrante & Teicher
    Ferrante & Teicher were a duo of American piano players, known for their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes.-Career:...

  • Jacques Février
    Jacques Février
    Jacques Février was a French pianist and teacher.Jacques Février was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the son of the composer Henry Février. He studied with Édouard Risler and Marguerite Long at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1921...

  • Janina Fialkowska
    Janina Fialkowska
    Janina Fialkowska, OC is a Canadian-American classical pianist.- Early life :Fialkowska was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Canadian mother and a Polish father , an engineer and Polish army officer who emigrated to Canada in 1945...

  • John Field
    John Field (composer)
    John Field was an Irish pianist, composer, and teacher. He was born in Dublin into a musical family, and received his early education there. The Fields soon moved to London, where Field studied under Muzio Clementi...

  • Margaret Fingerhut
    Margaret Fingerhut
    Margaret Ruth Fingerhut is a British concert pianist who has performed in many different countries and has become well-known for her innovative and entertaining recital programmes which combine popular and unusual repertoire...

  • Graham Fitch
    Graham Fitch
    Graham Fitch is an English pianist and a former professor at the University of Cape Town.-Biography:First prize winner in the Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition, Fitch graduated with honours from London's Royal College of Music as a Hopkinson Gold Medallist...

  • Sergio Fiorentino
    Sergio Fiorentino
    Sergio Fiorentino was a 20th-century Italian classical pianist whose sporadic performing career spanned five decades.-Music career:...

  • Rudolf Firkušný
    Rudolf Firkusny
    - Life :Born in Moravian Napajedla, Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilém Kurz. Later he studied with Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in...

  • Annie Fischer
    Annie Fischer
    Annie Fischer was a Hungarian classical pianist.-Biography:Fischer was born in Budapest, and studied in that city at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Ernő Dohnányi. In 1933 she won the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in her native city...

  • Edwin Fischer
    Edwin Fischer
    Edwin Fischer was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, particularly in the traditional Germanic repertoire of such composers as J. S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert...

  • Norma Fisher
    Norma Fisher
    -Biography:Norma Fisher was born in London of Russian-Polish parents. She was soon recognised as "a rare musical talent" winning an exhibition at the age of eleven, to study with Sidney Harrison at the Guildhall School of Music...

  • Philip Edward Fisher
    Philip Edward Fisher
    Philip Edward Fisher is a British classical pianist.- Biography :Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Philip Edward Fisher began playing the piano at the relatively late age of 9, making his concerto debut only 3 years later with a performance of Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto at the...

  • Leon Fleisher
    Leon Fleisher
    Leon Fleisher is an American pianist and conductor.-Early life and studies:Fleisher was born in San Francisco, where he started studying the piano at age four...

  • Ingrid Fliter
    Ingrid Fliter
    Ingrid Fliter is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro Colón at age 16....


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  • Andor Földes
    Andor Földes
    Andor Földes was an internationally renowned Hungarian pianist born in Budapest, who later took American citizenship.-Career:...

  • Julian Fontana
    Julian Fontana
    Julian Fontana was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Frédéric Chopin.-Biography:...

  • Bengt Forsberg
    Bengt Forsberg
    Bengt Forsberg is a Swedish concert pianist most famous for his numerous collaborations with the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. He participated in her project to record songs written in the concentration camp of Terezín. Forsberg has a reputation as a champion of neglected music and composers...

  • W. O. Forsyth
    W. O. Forsyth
    Wesley Octavius Forsyth was a Canadian pianist and composer.Forsyth was born in Markham Township and studied music in Leipzig under Salomon Jadassohn, Martin Krause, Gustav Schreck and others. His first success was the Suite in E minor . Having failed to achieve success as an instrumental...

  • Fou Ts'ong
    Fou Ts'ong
    Fou Ts'ong is a Chinese pianist.Born in Shanghai to a family of intellectuals , Fou first studied piano with Mario Paci, the Italian founder of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra...

  • Felix Fox
    Felix Fox
    Felix Fox was a German-born concert pianist and educator.Mr. Fox studied piano with Carl Reinecke in Leipzig, and Hungarian-French pianist Isidor Philipp in Paris, and studied music theory with Salomon Jadassohn. Fox graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig where he made his debut...

  • Malcolm Frager
    Malcolm Frager
    -Life and career:Frager was born in St. Louis, Missouri and studied with Carl Friedberg in New York City from 1949 until Friedberg's death in 1955. In 1957 he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a major in Russian...

  • Homero Francesch
    Homero Francesch
    Homero Francesch is a Uruguay-born Swiss pianist.He attended piano lessons under Santiago Baranda Reyes in Uruguay and in 1967 he was awarded a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service...

  • Samson François
    Samson François
    Samson Pascal François was a French pianist and composer.-Biography:François was born in Frankfurt where his father worked at the French consulate. His mother, Rose, named him Samson, for strength, and Pascal, for spirit...

  • Claude Frank
    Claude Frank
    Claude Frank is a German-born, American Jewish pianist whose career has included appearances with highly reputed orchestras, at major festivals, and in major recital halls around the world...

  • Peter Frankl
    Peter Frankl
    Peter Frankl is a Hungarian-born British pianist. He mainly performs music from the Classical period , the Romantic period and the early Modern period...

  • Justus Frantz
    Justus Frantz
    Justus Frantz is a German pianist, conductor, and television personality.- Life :...

  • David Fray
    David Fray
    David Fray is a French classical pianist. Voted "Newcomer of the Year 2008" by the BBC Music Magazine, Fray has gained attention for his musical interpretation as well as his eccentricities in performance and rehearsal, which were highlighted in the 2008 ARTE documentary about him titled "Swing,...

  • Nelson Freire
    Nelson Freire
    Nelson Freire is a Brazilian classical pianist.Freire began playing the piano when he was three years old. He replayed from memory pieces his older sister had just performed. His teachers in Brazil were Nise Obino and Lucia Branco, former students of a pupil of Liszt. For his first public recital,...

  • Etelka Freund
    Etelka Freund
    Etelka Freund was an Hungarian pianist.A disciple of Ferruccio Busoni, she played regularly for Johannes Brahms during her training years. An international career, throughout which she was an early divulgator of Béla Bartók's music, ensued her 1901 debut. She brought it to a halt in 1910, resuming...

  • Carl Friedberg
    Carl Friedberg
    Carl Rudolf Hermann Friedberg was a German pianist and teacher.Friedberg studied piano with James Kwast and with Clara Schumann at the Hoch Conservatory, Frankfurt. He later became a teacher there and later at the Cologne Conservatory...

  • Arthur Friedheim
    Arthur Friedheim
    Arthur Friedheim was a Russian-born pianist, conductor and composer who was one of Franz Liszt's foremost pupils.Friedheim was born in Saint Petersburg in 1859. He began serious study of music at age eight...

  • Ignaz Friedman
    Ignaz Friedman
    Ignaz Friedman Ignaz Friedman Ignaz Friedman (also spelled by languages Ignace or Ignacy; exactly Solomon (Salomon) Isaac Freudman(n), (February 13, 1882January 26, 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. Critics (e.g. Harold C. Schonberg) and colleagues (e.g...


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  • Ossip Gabrilowitsch
    Ossip Gabrilowitsch
    Ossip Gabrilowitsch was a Russian-born American pianist, conductor and composer.- Biography :...

  • Henriette Gaertner
    Henriette Gaertner
    Henriette Gaertner is a German pianist.The Schneider Book of Records once referred to Henriette Gärtner as "the youngest concert pianist in the world", after she attracted international attention at the International Musical Festival Lucerne as an eight-year-old.Meanwhile Henriette Gärtner enjoys...

  • Neil Galanter
    Neil Galanter
    Neil Galanter is an American pianist in Los Angeles, California, who is a leading specialist in researching and performing the works of Iberian, Belgian, and other European composers including Mompou, Montsalvatge, Blancafort, Espla, and Poot...

  • Rudolph Ganz
    Rudolph Ganz
    Rudolph Ganz was a Swiss pianist, conductor and composer. He claimed direct descent from Charlemagne.-Biography:...

  • Mark Gasser
    Mark Gasser
    -Career:Gasser is a fellow of the Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Music. He studied with John Humphreys at the Birmingham Conservatoire, and with Frank Wibaut at the Royal Academy of Music...

  • Ivana Gavrić
    Ivana Gavrić
    Ivana Gavrić is a British pianist. She was named Newcomer of the Year at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2011.-Career:The daughter of pianist Zrinka Gavrić, Ivana Gavrić commenced her studies at the age of six at the Central Junior Music School of Sarajevo...

  • Andrei Gavrilov
    Andrei Gavrilov
    Andrei Vladimirovich Gavrilov is a Russian pianist.- Life :Gavrilov was born into a multinational family of artists in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Gavrilov , one of the leading Russian painters of the middle of the 20th century, through whom Gavrilov also has German ancestors...

  • Alexander Gavrylyuk
    Alexander Gavrylyuk
    Alexander Gavrylyuk is a Ukrainian pianist, and a naturalised Australian citizen. He won the 1999 Vladimir Horowitz Competition, the 2000 Hamamatsu Competition and, most notably, the 2005 Arthur Rubinstein Competition...

  • Heinrich Gebhard
    Heinrich Gebhard
    Heinrich Gebhard was a German-American pianist, composer and piano teacher.-Performer:...

  • Kemal Gekić
    Kemal Gekic
    Kemal Gekić is an American classical pianist and Professor of Piano at the Florida International University. He is renowned for his performances of Franz Liszt's works. He is of Bosnian ancestry, his parents are from Livno in Bosnia and Herzegovina-External links:** at the FIU School of Music...

  • Alexander Ghindin
    Alexander Ghindin
    Alexander Ghindin is a Russian pianist. He won the fourth prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1994 and was the youngest laureate ever...

  • Jack Gibbons
    Jack Gibbons
    Jack Gibbons is an English classical pianist and composer.-Biography:Gibbons was born in England. His father is a scientist and his mother a visual artist. He began his piano studies in Stockton-on-Tees, later continuing in Oxford. He began performing in public at the age of 10...

  • Walter Gieseking
    Walter Gieseking
    Walter Wilhelm Gieseking was a French-born German pianist and composer.-Biography:Born in Lyon, France, the son of a German doctor and lepidopterist, Gieseking first started playing the piano at the age of four, but without formal instruction...

  • Emil Gilels
    Emil Gilels
    Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels.-Biography:...

  • Boris Giltburg
    Boris Giltburg
    Boris Giltburg is an Israeli-Russian classical pianist . - Biography and career :Giltburg was born in Moscow, Russia, and began studying piano with his mother at the age of five...

  • Jakob Gimpel
    Jakob Gimpel
    Jakob Gimpel was a Polish concert pianist and educator.Jakob Gimpel was born in Lvov...

  • Grigory Ginzburg
    Grigory Ginzburg
    Grigory Romanovich Ginzburg was a Jewish-born, Russian pianist.-Biography:Ginzburg first studied with his mother before being accepted as a student in Alexander Goldenweiser's class at Moscow Conservatory. In 1927 he gained fourth prize in the Warsaw International Frederick Chopin Competition...

  • Katrine Gislinge
    Katrine Gislinge
    Katrine Gislinge is a Danish pianist.She began taking piano lessons at the age of six. After taking her diploma in 1990 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, she studied with, among others, Seymour Lipkin in New York, Boris Berman at Yale, and Peter Feuchtwanger in London.In recent...

  • Frank Glazer
    Frank Glazer
    Frank Glazer is an American pianist, composer, and professor of music.Glazer was born in Chester, Wisconsin on February 19, 1915, the sixth child of Benjamin and Clara Glazer, Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. The family moved to Milwaukee in 1919...

  • Marija Gluvakov
    Marija Gluvakov
    Marija Gluvakov - Medenica , is a Serbian pianist and piano teacher.-Education:...


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  • Arabella Goddard
    Arabella Goddard
    Arabella Goddard was an English pianist of great renown in the middle to late 19th century.She was born and died in France. Her parents, Thomas Goddard, an heir to a Salisbury cutlery firm, and Arabella née Ingles, were part of an English community of expatriates living in Saint-Servan near...

  • Leopold Godowsky
    Leopold Godowsky
    Leopold Godowsky was a famed Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher. One of the most highly regarded performers of his time, he became known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion in piano playing, principles later propagated by Godowsky's...

  • Mona Golabek
    Mona Golabek
    -Biography:Golabek was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Michel Golabek, winner of the Croix de Guerre, and Lisa Jura, a concert pianist. Her father was from Poland and had been part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II before coming the United States...

  • Edward Gold
    Edward Gold
    Edward Gold , is an American pianist and composer.- Biography :Gold was born in Brooklyn and grew up in New York City. He attended public schools and majored in music at CCNY . He received his masters from Yale University School of Music where he studied with Ellsworth Grumman, Mel Powell and H....

  • Alexander Goldenweiser
  • Rubin Goldmark
    Rubin Goldmark
    Rubin Goldmark was an American composer, pianist, and educator. Although in his time he was an often performed American nationalist composer, his works are seldom played – instead he is known as the teacher of Aaron Copland and George Gershwin...

  • Robert Goldsand
    Robert Goldsand
    Robert Goldsand was an Austrian-American classical pianist.- Life :Goldsand was born in Vienna, Austria in 1911. He began musical studies at age four on the violin, but discovery of his talent for the piano, and consequent concentration on that instrument, began within a year...

  • Stefano Golinelli
    Stefano Golinelli
    Stefano Golinelli was an Italian piano virtuoso and composer.In 1840 he was appointed by Rossini, then an Honorary Councillor of the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, professor for piano at the Liceo, a post he held until 1871...

  • Alexis Golovin
    Alexis Golovin
    Alexis Golovin is a Russian classical pianist.Golovin began studying the piano at the age of 5 with Anna Artobolevskaya at the Central Music School of Moscow and later at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied both the piano and musicology...

  • David Golub
    David Golub
    David Golub, pianist and conductor, was born March 22, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois, USA and died of lung cancer on October 16, 2000 in Milan, Italy.- Biography :Golub moved with his family to Dallas, Texas when he was five years old...

  • Richard Goode
    Richard Goode
    Richard Goode is an American classical pianist, especially known for his interpretations of Ludwig van Beethoven and chamber music.Goode was born in East Bronx, New York...

  • Isador Goodman
    Isador Goodman
    Isador Goodman AM was a South African-Australian Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. He became a household name in Australia in the 1930s-1970s, taught at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music for 50 years, introduced many Australians to classical music, and contributed hugely to music...

  • Judith Gordon
    Judith Gordon
    -Education:Judith Gordon studied at Oberlin Conservatory and at New England Conservatory where she studied with Patricia Zander.-New York debut:Judith Gordon gave her New York recital debut on May 27, 1990 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the museum’s Introductions series. Bernard...

  • Daniel Gortler
    Daniel Gortler
    Daniel Gortler is an Israeli pianist and a faculty member of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel-Aviv University.-Education and early life:Born and raised in Israel, he began studying classical music and piano with Ms...

  • Ralf Gothoni
    Ralf Gothoni
    Ralf Georg Nils Gothóni is a Finnish pianist and conductor. He is also active as a chamber musician, professor, composer, and author. Born in Rauma, Finland he made his orchestra debut at age 15. Besides his worldwide concert career he has made some 100 recordings with major labels...

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works...

  • Glenn Gould
    Glenn Gould
    Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach...

  • Anna Gourari
    Anna Gourari
    Anna Gourari is a classical concert pianist.She received her first piano education at the age of five by her parents, professors at Kazan Academy of Music. In 1979 she performed her first public concert. From this year onwards she studied at further renowned piano schools and famous piano tutors...


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  • Enrique Graf
    Enrique Graf
    Enrique Graf was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is now an American citizen.After winning all of the national competitions in Uruguay, he went to the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University to study with Leon Fleisher on a full scholarship from Peabody and the Organization of American...

  • Gary Graffman
    Gary Graffman
    Gary Graffman is an American classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator.Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova...

  • Percy Grainger
    Percy Grainger
    George Percy Aldridge Grainger , known as Percy Grainger, was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. He also made many...

  • Enrique Granados
    Enrique Granados
    Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...

  • Jeffrey Grice
    Jeffrey Grice
    Jeffrey Grice is a New Zealand musician. Born in Christchurch, Jeffrey Grice studied languages and music at University of Auckland. He then continued his piano studies in Paris, obtaining the Licence de Concert de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Musique.Resident in France, Jeffrey Grice has...

  • Edvard Grieg
    Edvard Grieg
    Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...

  • Hélène Grimaud
    Hélène Grimaud
    Hélène Grimaud is a French pianist.-Biography:Grimaud was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. Although her autobiography Variations Sauvages suggests a...

  • Maria Grinberg
    Maria Grinberg
    Maria Grinberg , was a Ukrainian pianist and teacher....

  • Bonnie Gritton
    Bonnie Gritton
    Bonnie Gritton is an American classical pianist.As well as performing in concert, she teaches piano performance and pedagogy at the University of Utah. Dr. Gritton made her debut performance at age 15, when she played Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, accompanied by the Utah Symphony Orchestra. She...

  • Andreas Groethuysen
    Duo Tal & Groethuysen
    The Israeli pianist Yaara Tal and her German partner Andreas Groethuysen are a piano duo....

  • Benjamin Grosvenor
    Benjamin Grosvenor
    Benjamin Grosvenor is a classical pianist from the United Kingdom. He is also a vegetarian. He won the piano section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2004 competition. In 2010 he joined BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, which he completes in 2012.- Family :Grosvenor is the youngest...

  • Alberto Guerrero
    Alberto Guerrero
    Antonio Alberto García Guerrero was a Chilean-Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher. While he is most famously remembered as the mentor of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, Guerrero influenced several generations of musicians through his many years of teaching at the Toronto Conservatory of...

  • Friedrich Gulda
    Friedrich Gulda
    Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields.Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7...

  • Youra Guller
    Youra Guller
    Youra Guller was a female French classical pianist.-Biography:Guller was born as Rose-Georgette Guller of Russian-Romanian heritage. She began her studies at the age of five. She performed in recitals and then enrolled at the Paris Conservatory at the age of nine, where she worked with Isidor...

  • Horacio Gutiérrez
    Horacio Gutiérrez
    Horacio Gutiérrez is a Cuban-American virtuoso classical pianist.-Early life and education:Gutiérrez was born in Havana, Cuba, the eldest of four children, to Tomás V. Gutiérrez and Josefina Fernandez Gutiérrez. His mother was his first piano teacher, and was herself, an accomplished pianist. His...


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  • Monique Haas
    Monique Haas
    Monique Haas was a French pianist.Born in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire there with Joseph Morpain and Lazare Lévy, taking a Premier Prix in 1927. She went on to study with Rudolf Serkin and Robert Casadesus. She was married to the French-Romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici...

  • Werner Haas
    Werner Haas (pianist)
    Werner Haas was a German classical pianist. He was known for his performances of early 20th century compositions, particularly those of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel...

  • Ingrid Haebler
    Ingrid Haebler
    Ingrid Haebler is an Austrian pianist. Studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Vienna Music Academy, Geneva Conservatory and privately in Paris with Marguerite Long. She toured worldwide, but is best known for a series of recordings from the 1950s to 1980s...

  • Andreas Haefliger
    Andreas Haefliger
    Andreas Haefliger is a German-born Swiss pianist.Haefliger was born into a musical family, as the son of famed tenor, Ernst Haefliger. He grew up in Switzerland and later studied at The Juilliard School...

  • Michael Habermann
    Michael Habermann
    Michael Habermann is a pianist and professor at the Peabody Institute.His intense study of the music of English-Parsi composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji has resulted in four recordings. In 1979, Sorabji dedicated a 93-page piano work to him...

  • Reynaldo Hahn
    Reynaldo Hahn
    Reynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan, naturalised French, composer, conductor, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie....

  • Sir Charles Hallé
    Charles Hallé
    Sir Charles Hallé was an Anglo-German pianist and conductor, and founder of The Hallé orchestra in 1858.-Life:Hallé was born in Hagen, Westphalia, Germany who after settling in England changed his name from Karl Halle...

  • Mark Hambourg
    Mark Hambourg
    Mark Hambourg was a distinguished Russian-British concert pianist, among the most famous of his age.- Life :Mark Hambourg was the eldest son of the pianist Michael Hambourg , and was brother of the cellist Boris Hambourg and the violinist Jan Hambourg , and of the musical organiser Clement...

  • Leonid Hambro
    Leonid Hambro
    Leonid Hambro was an American concert pianist and composer.-Life:He was the son of immigrant Russian Jews; his father was a pianist accompanying silent films....

  • Marc-André Hamelin
    Marc-André Hamelin
    Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ, is a French Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marc-André Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also a pianist, introduced him to the works of Alkan, Godowsky, and Sorabji when he was...

  • Ambre Hammond
    Ambre Hammond
    Ambre Hammond is an Australian classical pianist.Ambre Hammond learnt to play the piano with her mother Carolyn Hammond from age 3 to 16 years. She gave her first concert at the age of 5. In 1990 Hammond achieved a world record when she was awarded her AMEB Associate and Licentiate Diplomas of...

  • Adam Harasiewicz
    Adam Harasiewicz
    Adam Harasiewicz is a Polish classical concert pianist.He won the first prize at the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1955....

  • Michael Kieran Harvey
    Michael Kieran Harvey
    Michael Kieran Harvey is an Australian pianist whose career has been notable for its diversity and wide repertoire. He is renowned for commissioning and performing new music. He has especially promoted the works of Australian composers, such as Carl Vine, all of whose piano music he has recorded...

  • Clara Haskil
    Clara Haskil
    Clara Haskil was a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire....

  • Joyce Hatto
    Joyce Hatto
    Joyce Hatto was a British pianist and piano teacher. She became famous late in life, when unauthorised copies of commercial recordings made by other pianists were released under her name, earning her high praise from critics. The fraud did not come to light until a few months after her...

  • Walter Hautzig
    Walter Hautzig
    -Biography:Hautzig studied under Mieczysław Munz. He has taught master classes to hundreds of students all around the world. He has done tours in Japan over 30 times and has performed for President Jimmy Carter...

  • Franz Joseph Haydn

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  • Inna Heifetz
    Inna Heifetz
    Inna Heifetz is a classical pianist.Heifetz first performed in public at the age of six. Recital and concert tours have taken her to Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and France...

  • Claude Helffer
    Claude Helffer
    Claude Helffer was a French pianist noted particularly for his advocacy of 20th-century music.-Biography:...

  • David Helfgott
    David Helfgott
    David Helfgott is an Australian concert pianist. He is as well known for having schizoaffective disorder as he is for his piano playing. Helfgott's life inspired the Oscar-winning film Shine, in which he was played by Geoffrey Rush....

  • Stephen Heller
    Stephen Heller
    ----Stephen Heller was a Hungarian composer and pianist whose career spanned the period from Schumann to Bizet, and was an influence for later Romantic composers.-Biography:...

  • Gerard Hengeveld
    Gerard Hengeveld
    Gerard Hengeveld was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist. He is especially known for his compositions of study material for piano. Other compositions include two piano concertos, a violin sonata, and a sonata for cello...

  • Dennis Hennig
    Dennis Hennig
    Dennis Hennig was an Australian pianist.At an early stage of his career he was one of the Australian Ballet's rehearsal class pianists, and later performed live music for ballet performances such as Signatures, An Evening, Seven Deadly Sins and Nearly Beloved...

  • Adolf von Henselt
    Adolf von Henselt
    Adolf von Henselt was a German composer and pianist.-Life:Henselt was born at Schwabach, in Bavaria. At the age of three he began to learn the violin, and at five the piano under Frau von Fladt...

  • Henri Herz
    Henri Herz
    Henri Herz was a pianist and composer, Austrian by birth, and French by domicile.Herz was born Heinrich Herz in Vienna...

  • Dame Myra Hess
    Myra Hess
    Dame Myra Hess DBE was a British pianist.She was born in London as Julia Myra Hess, but was best known by her middle name. At the age of five she began to study the piano and two years later entered the Guildhall School of Music, where she graduated as winner of the Gold Medal...

  • Barbara Hesse-Bukowska
    Barbara Hesse-Bukowska
    Barbara Hesse-Bukowska is a Polish pianist. She graduated from Warsaw's State Higher School of Music in June 1949, and took part a few months later in the first postwar edition of the International Chopin Piano Competition, winning the 2nd prize...

  • Angela Hewitt
    Angela Hewitt
    Angela Hewitt, OC, OBE is a Canadian classical pianist. She holds British nationality through her father, Godfrey, who was the organist and choirmaster at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa, Ontario for almost fifty years.-Career:...

  • Peter Hill
    Peter Hill (pianist)
    The British pianist and musicologist Peter Hill is a world-renowned authority on the works of French composer Olivier Messiaen, with whom he was acquainted...

  • Eric Himy
    Eric Himy
    - Life :Born in Brooklyn, NY, Himy began piano studies at age six, giving his first concert at age 10. He was guest soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at age 15, and at 19 he made his National Symphony Orchestra debut under Hugh Wolf going on to win numerous competitions and awards...


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  • Josef Hofmann
  • Otakar Hollmann
    Otakar Hollmann
    Otakar Hollmann was a Czech pianist who was notable in the repertoire for left-handed pianists. Although little known now, he was considered second only to Paul Wittgenstein in the promotion of the left-hand repertoire. He commissioned works for the left hand from a number of composers, most...

  • Vladimir Horowitz
    Vladimir Horowitz
    Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz    was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...

  • Mieczysław Horszowski
  • Stephen Hough
    Stephen Hough
    Stephen Andrew Gill Hough is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality .-Biography:...

  • Alan Hovhaness
    Alan Hovhaness
    Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...

  • Leslie Howard
    Leslie Howard (musician)
    Leslie Howard AM is an Australian pianist and composer. He is best known for being the only pianist to have recorded the complete solo piano works of Franz Liszt, a project which included more than 300 premiere recordings...

  • Philip Howard
    Philip Howard (pianist)
    Philip Howard is a British-born composer and pianist, at present best known for his performances of music by Morton Feldman and Iannis Xenakis.Howard studied in London, at the Royal Academy of Music...

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel
    Johann Nepomuk Hummel
    Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :...

  • Bruce Hungerford
    Bruce Hungerford
    Bruce Hungerford was an Australian pianist.Born in Korumburra, Victoria, Bruce Hungerford was originally named Leonard Hungerford...


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  • Valentina Igoshina
    Valentina Igoshina
    Valentina Igoshina is a Russian classical pianist.-Biography:Valentina Igoshina began studying piano with her mother, and first took lessons at home at the age of four...

  • Konstantin Igumnov
    Konstantin Igumnov
    Konstantin Nicolayevich Igumnov was a Russian virtuoso pianist and the teacher of many famous Russian pianists.Igumnov studied under Nikolai Zverev, and at Moscow Conservatory under Alexander Siloti and Pavel Pabst. He took theory and composition courses from Sergei Taneyev, Anton Arensky and...

  • Ivan Ilić
    Ivan Ilic
    Ivan Ilić is an American pianist of Serbian descent. He is currently living in Paris.-Biography:Born on August 14, 1978, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Ilić attended the University of California, Berkeley where he took degrees in mathematics and music...

  • Jos van Immerseel
    Jos van Immerseel
    Jos van Immerseel is a Flemish harpsichordist, pianist and conductor.Van Immerseel studied organ, piano and harpsichord at the Antwerp Conservatory under Flor Peeters, Eugène Traey and harpsichordist and musicologist Kenneth Gilbert...

  • Stanislav Ioudenitch
    Stanislav Ioudenitch
    Stanislav Ioudenitch , is a pianist from the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. He was a Gold Medalist at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2001, tying for first place with Olga Kern...

  • Yoram Ish-Hurwitz
    Yoram Ish-Hurwitz
    Yoram Ish-Hurwitz is a Dutch pianist of Israeli origin.He began his studies with Danièle Dechenne and Jan Wijn at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. In 1993 he was the first Dutch pianist to graduate from the Juilliard School in New York with the Hungarian pianist György Sándor...

  • Eugene Istomin
    Eugene Istomin
    Eugene George Istomin was an American pianist.Istomin was born in New York City of Russian parents. He was famous for his work in a piano trio, in which he collaborated with Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose. Known as the Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio, the group made many recordings, particularly of music by...

  • Amparo Iturbi
    Amparo Iturbi
    -Early career:Amparo Iturbi was born in Valencia, Spain, the younger sister of José Iturbi. She gave her debut concert at the age of 15 in Barcelona. In 1925, she gave her first important concert outside of Spain. She played in Paris, at the Salle Gaveau. This was followed by dual piano recitals...

  • José Iturbi
    José Iturbi
    José Iturbi was a Spanish conductor, harpsichordist and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, Thousands Cheer and in the 1945 film, Anchors Aweigh...

  • Christian Ivaldi
    Christian Ivaldi
    Christian Ivaldi is a French pianist born on 2 September 1938 in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Février and took a Premier Prix in piano performance, as well as in chamber music, counterpoint, and accompaniment. He first appeared as a soloist at Radio France in 1961...

  • Andrei Ivanovitch
    Andrei Ivanovitch
    Andrei Ivanovitch is an international classical pianist and winner of international competitions.- Biography and career :Andrei Ivanovitch Andrei Ivanovitch (born 1968 in Bucharest, Romania) is an international classical pianist and winner of international competitions.- Biography and career...


Ja-Je

  • Peter Jablonski
    Peter Jablonski
    -Biography:Peter Jablonski was born in Lyckeby, Sweden to a Polish father and his first teacher was Polish. He was raised in Sweden and later moved to the United Kingdom...

  • Paul Jacobs
    Paul Jacobs (pianist)
    Paul Jacobs was an American pianist. He was best known for his performances of twentieth century music but also gained wide recognition for his work with early keyboards, performing frequently with Baroque ensembles....

  • Zoran G. Jančić
    Zoran G. Jancic
    Zoran G. Jančić is a Bosnian Serb pianist.He was educated at Primary and Secondary Music School. He gave his first recital at the age of twelve. He was also educated at the Zagreb Academy of Music and graduated with First Class Honours in Music Performances...

  • Jenő Jandó
    Jeno Jandó
    Jenő Jandó is a Hungarian pianist and Professor of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary.He studied piano at the Liszt Academy with Katalin Nemes and Pál Kadosa, later going on to win many major international piano competitions, including the Georges Cziffra and Ciani Piano...

  • Byron Janis
    Byron Janis
    Byron Janis is an American classical pianist.-Life:He made several recordings for RCA Victor and Mercury Records, and occupies two volumes of the Philips Great Pianists series. His discography covers repertoire from Beethoven to David Guion and includes renditions of major piano concertos from...

  • Tasso Janopoulo
    Tasso Janopoulo
    Tasso Janopoulo was an Egyptian pianist of Greek descent, and a naturalised French citizen. He collaborated with musicians such as Henryk Szeryng, Jacques Thibaud, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Fournier and Ninon Vallin as an accompanist.-References:...

  • Rudolf Jansen
    Rudolf Jansen
    Rudolf Jansen is a Dutch pianist, who studied piano, organ and harpsichord simultaneously at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam. His teachers were Nelly Wagenaar, his father Simon C. Jansen, Felix de Nobel and Gustav Leonhardt...

  • Adolf Jensen
    Adolf Jensen
    Adolf Jensen was a German pianist, composer and music teacher, and was the brother of Gustav Jensen who was a violinist and composer.-Biography:...

  • Lico Jiménez (José Manuel Jiménez Berroa)

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  • Grant Johannesen
    Grant Johannesen
    Grant Johannesen was an American concert pianist.He was born in Salt Lake City and discovered at the age of five by an irate teacher who lived across the street. He imitated whatever he heard her play, and she did not appreciate it.He studied with Robert Casadesus, Roger Sessions, and Nadia...

  • Gunnar Johansen
    Gunnar Johansen
    Gunnar Johansen was a Danish-born pianist and composer. He studied in his native Denmark with the pianist and conductor Victor Schiøler, then in Berlin with Egon Petri, the disciple of Ferruccio Busoni. He also worked with Edwin Fischer and the Liszt pupil Frederic Lamond...

  • Graham Johnson
  • Henry Jolles
    Henry Jolles
    Henry Jolles , born Heinz-Frederic Jolles, was a German pianist and composer. Uprooted from his native Germany by the rise of Nazism, he spent his last quarter-century in Brazil.-Life:...

  • Maryla Jonas
    Maryla Jonas
    The pianist Maryla Jonas , pronounced Marie-la, was born in Warsaw, Poland, debuting her pianistic talent at the age of 9...

  • Richard Jones
    Richard Jones
    -Artists and entertainers:* F. Richard Jones , American filmmaker* Dick Clair , born Richard Jones, American producer, actor and TV writer* Richard Jones , British bass guitarist...

  • Rafael Joseffy
    Rafael Joseffy
    Rafael Joseffy was a Hungarian pianist and composer.-Life:Raael Joseffy was born in Hunfalu in 1852. His youth was spent in Miskolcz , and there, at the age of 8, he began his study of the piano. He studied in Budapest with Friedrich Brauer, the teacher of Stephen Heller...

  • Bradley Joseph
    Bradley Joseph
    Bradley Joseph is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestra, quartet, and solo piano, while his musical style ranges from "quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth".Active...

  • Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux
    Genevieve Joy
    Geneviève Joy was a French classical and modernist pianist who, at the end of World War II in 1945, formed a critically acclaimed duo-piano partnership with Jacqueline Robin which lasted for forty-five years, until 1990...

  • Eileen Joyce
    Eileen Joyce
    Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years....

  • Terence Judd
    Terence Judd
    Terence Judd was an outstanding 20th century English pianist who died young, poised on the verge of a musical career....


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  • Jeffrey Kahane
    Jeffrey Kahane
    Jeffrey Alan Kahane is an American classical music pianist and conductor. He is music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.-Personal history:...

  • Percy Kahn
    Percy Kahn
    Percival Benedict Kahn was an English composer and pianist. His most noted composition was the song Ave Maria with accompaniment by piano, and violin obbligato.Kahn was born in London in 1880...

  • Peter Kairoff
    Peter kairoff
    Peter Kairoff is an American pianist and educator. Born in Los Angeles in 1955, he completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Southern California in 1985. He also studied in Italy for two years as a Fulbright Scholar and Rotary International Fellow...

  • Joseph Kalichstein
    Joseph Kalichstein
    Joseph Kalichstein is a renowned Israeli-born American classical pianist who performs in the concerto, solo recital and chamber music repertoire, the latter mainly with Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson in the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio...

  • Gilbert Kalish
    Gilbert Kalish
    Gilbert Kalish is an American pianist.He was born in New York and studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabelle Vengerova. He was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a pioneering new music group that flourished during the 1960s and '70s...

  • Friedrich Kalkbrenner
    Friedrich Kalkbrenner
    Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner was a German pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer who spent most of his life in England and France. Before the advent of Frédéric Chopin, Sigismond Thalberg and Franz Liszt, Kalkbrenner was by many considered to be the foremost pianist in...

  • William Kapell
    William Kapell
    William Kapell was an outstanding American pianist who was killed in the crash of a commercial airliner.-Biography:...

  • Richard Kapp
    Richard Kapp
    Richard Kapp was an American conductor.Richard Kapp was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was a child piano prodigy. However, he studied German political history at Johns Hopkins University. He received his BA in 1957...

  • Jozef Kapustka
    Jozef Kapustka
    Jozef Kapustka is a Polish concert pianist, born in 1969 in Tarnów, Poland. Lives in Paris, France.- Biography and schooling :Jozef Kapustka was born in 1969 in Tarnów, Poland where he began receiving his early musical tuition from the local instructor Danuta Cieslik at the age of 3. He then...

  • Natalia Karp
    Natalia Karp
    Natalia Karp was a London based concert pianist and Holocaust survivor.-Early life:Karp was born as Natalia Weissman in Kraków, Poland, and began learning piano at the age of four...

  • Yakov Kasman
    Yakov Kasman
    Yakov Kasman is a Russian classical pianist, professor of piano, and artist-in-residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham....

  • Julius Katchen
    Julius Katchen
    Julius Katchen was an American concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Johannes Brahms's solo piano compositions.-Early career:...

  • Peter Katin
    Peter Katin
    Peter Roy Katin is a British pianist.-Biography:He attended Whitgift School in South Croydon and was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 12, four years younger than the official entry age, where he studied under Harold Craxton...

  • Cyprien Katsaris
    Cyprien Katsaris
    Cyprien Katsaris is a French-Cypriot pianist, teacher and composer. He was born on 5 May 1951, in Marseilles, France.-Biography:Katsaris first began to play the piano when he was four, in Cameroon where he grew up...

  • Amir Katz
    Amir Katz
    Amir Katz, born 1973 in Ramat Gan, Israel, is a pianist who lives in Germany. He began piano lessons at the age of 11 and won his first national competitions in Israel four years later. He received scholarships to study in Europe, including at the International Piano Foundation at Lake Como, where...

  • Martin Katz
    Martin Katz
    Martin Katz is an American pianist, educator and conductor, primarily known for his work as an accompanist.Over his 30 years as a performer, Mr...

  • Mindru Katz
    Mindru Katz
    Mindru Katz was a Romanian-Israeli classical pianist.Mindru Katz was born in Bucharest in 1925. He was discovered as a child prodigy by George Enescu, and taught by Florica Musicescu. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in Bucharest in 1947, in which year he also made his debut with the...


Ke-Kh

  • Constance Keene
    Constance Keene
    Constance Keene was an American pianist, who attracted great praise for her 1964 recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Preludes, and also won critical acclaim for her recordings of the works of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn.She was raised in Brooklyn, New York...

  • Simone Keller
    Simone Keller
    Simone Keller is a Swiss pianist.Simone Keller studied piano at the Zurich School of Music and Theater under the tutelage of Hans-Jürg Strub and graduated 2006 with a concert diploma....

  • Freddy Kempf
    Freddy Kempf
    Freddy Kempf is a British pianist born in Croydon to a German father and a Japanese mother. He now lives in Berlin.-Early career:He was educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury and the Royal Academy of Music...

  • Wilhelm Kempff
    Wilhelm Kempff
    Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff was a German pianist and composer. Although his repertory included Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well-known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, both of whose complete sonatas he also...

  • Sean Kennard
    Sean Kennard
    - Early years :Sean Kennard was born in San Diego, California to an American father and Japanese mother. He grew up in Hawaii and his family moved to Philadelphia when he began studying at the Curtis Institute of Music, at age 13....

  • Kevin Kenner
    Kevin Kenner
    Kevin Kenner is an American concert pianist.-Biography:At the age of 17, Kenner participated in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and was awarded the 10th prize and a special prize from the jury called Honorable Mention...

  • Louis Kentner
    Louis Kentner
    Louis Kentner was a Hungarian, later British, pianist who excelled in the works of Chopin and Liszt, as well as the Hungarian repertoire....

  • Olga Kern
    Olga Kern
    Olga Kern is a Russian classical pianist. Born as Olga Pushechnikova to a family of musicians with ties to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, she later adopted her mother's maiden name professionally...

  • Mikhail Kerzelli
    Mikhail Kerzelli
    Mikhail Franzevich Kerzelli was a pianist, violinist, teacher and composer of string quartets, violin duets, orchestral and liturgical compositions.Kerzelli was born at Vienna...

  • Eugène Ketterer
    Eugène Ketterer
    Eugène Ketterer was a French composer and pianist.In early youth he was a student at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won Second Prize for solfege in 1847 and a premier accessit in 1852, under Antoine François Marmontel...


Ki-Kl

  • Frederick B. Kiddle
    Frederick B. Kiddle
    Frederick B. Kiddle was a prominent English pianist, organist and accompanist.Kiddle was born at Frome, Somerset, and studied at the Royal College of Music under Sir Walter Parratt, Rockstro and Higgs...

  • Edward Kilenyi
    Edward Kilenyi
    Edward Kilenyi was a classical pianist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 7, 1910. His father, Edward Kilenyi, Sr., arrived in the United States from Hungary in 1908, taught music to George Gershwin for five years and later wrote music for movies and the Sam Fox music library.Kilenyi...

  • Gary Kirkpatrick
    Gary Kirkpatrick
    Gary Kirkpatrick is an American Concert Pianist hailing from Kansas. He is the recipient of the Top Prize in the International Piano Competition in Jaen, Spain and the Stepenov Piano Competition. He made his New York City debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. He has maintained an active career as...

  • Anatole Kitain
    Anatole Kitain
    - Early life :Anatole Kitain was born in Saint Petersburg into a family of professional musicians. His brothers, Robert and Boris, were violinists, and his brother Alexander was a pianist. He showed early promise, performing his own nocturne for the astonished Glazunov at the age of six...

  • Evgeny Kissin
    Evgeny Kissin
    Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian classical pianist and former child prodigy. He has been a British citizen since 2002. He is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic repertoire, particularly Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt.-Biography:Kissin was born in Moscow to...

  • Dimitri Klebanov
    Dimitri Klebanov
    Dmitri Lvovich Klebanov 1907 in Kharkiv – 6 June 1987 in Kharkiv) was a renowned Ukrainian composer. He studied at the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute with S. Bogatyryov. He taught at the Kharkiv Conservatory...

  • Elisabeth Klein
    Elisabeth Klein
    Elisabeth Klein was a Hungarian-Danish pianist.-Biography:Elisabeth Klein was born on July 23, 1911 in Trencsén and grew up in Budapest, Hungary from the age of 3...

  • Jacques Klein
    Jacques Klein
    Jacques Klein was a Brazilian composer and pianist.Born to a Jewish family in Aracati, he grew up in the nearby city of Fortaleza, where he began to study piano at the Conservatório Alberto Nepomuceno, which had been founded by his father...

  • Walter Klien
    Walter Klien
    Walter Klien was an Austrian pianist.-Career:Klien was born in Graz. His mother was the artist Erika Giovanna Klien . She emigrated to the United States in 1929, and their only further contact was by correspondence.Klien studied piano with Josef Dichler at the Music Academy in Vienna and with...

  • Paul Klengel
    Paul Klengel
    Paul Klengel was a German violinist, violist, pianist, conductor, composer, editor and arranger. He was the brother of cellist Julius Klengel....


Ko-Kr

  • Alexander Kobrin
    Alexander Kobrin
    Alexander Kobrin is a Russian pianist.At age five, he enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow where his primary teacher was Tatiana Zelikman...

  • Tobias Koch
    Tobias Koch
    Tobias Koch is a German pianist.- Biography : Tobias Koch was born in Kempen. He attended the Robert Schumann Music College in Düsseldorf, and conservatories Vienna, Graz and Brussels. He has also gained valuable artistic inspiration from the pianists David Levine, Roberto Szidon, Jos van...

  • Zoltán Kocsis
    Zoltán Kocsis
    Zoltán Kocsis is a Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer.Born in Budapest, he started his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in 1963, studying piano and composition...

  • Raoul (von) Koczalski
  • Alan Kogosowski
    Alan Kogosowski
    -Biography:Alan Kogosowski was born in Melbourne. From the age of six he played the piano for ten hours a day. He won a number of competitions and prizes, including the Australian television talent quest "BP Showcase 1966"...

  • Lubka Kolessa
    Lubka Kolessa
    Lubka Kolessa was a classical pianist and professor of piano.- Education :...

  • Alfons Kontarsky
    Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky
    Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky were German duo-pianist brothers who were associated with a number of important world premieres of contemporary works. They had an international reputation for performing modern music for two pianists, although they also performed the standard repertoire and they...

  • Aloys Kontarsky
    Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky
    Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky were German duo-pianist brothers who were associated with a number of important world premieres of contemporary works. They had an international reputation for performing modern music for two pianists, although they also performed the standard repertoire and they...

  • Anton de Kontski
    Anton de Kontski
    Anton de Kontski was a Polish pianist and composer. He was also known as Antoni Kątski and Antoine de Kontski, sometimes with the appellation "Chevalier."...

  • Giorgio Koukl
    Giorgio Koukl
    Giorgio Koukl is a composer and pianist/harpsichordist who lives in Lugano, a town located in Ticino, an Italian-speaking canton of southern Switzerland....

  • Stephen Kovacevich
    Stephen Kovacevich
    Stephen Kovacevich , who has also been known as Stephen Bishop and Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich is an American classical pianist and conductor.-Biography:...

  • Leopold Kozeluch
    Leopold Kozeluch
    Leopold Kozeluch was a Czech composer and teacher of classical music. He was born in the town of Velvary, in Bohemia .-Life:...

  • Vladimir Krainev
    Vladimir Krainev
    Vladimir Krainev was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR.-Biography:...

  • Lili Kraus
    Lili Kraus
    Lili Kraus was a Hungarian-born British pianist.-Biography:Lili Kraus was born in Budapest in 1903. Her father was from Czech Lands, and her mother from an assimilated Jewish Hungarian family....

  • Martin Krause
    Martin Krause
    Martin Krause was a German concert pianist, piano teacher, music critic, and writer.- Career :Martin Krause was born in Lobstädt, Saxony as the youngest son of the choirmaster and church schoolmaster Johann Carl Friedrich Krause in Lobstädt...

  • Anna Kravtchenko
    Anna Kravtchenko
    Anna Kravtchenko is an Italian pianist of Ukrainian, German and Georgian origin.At 16, she won the XLIV Concorso Busoni, a competition whose 1st prize had not been awarded for the 4 previous years. She has since had an international concert career and recorded a Fryderyk Chopin monographic for...

  • Vladimir Krpan
    Vladimir Krpan
    Vladimir Krpan is a Croatian pianist and piano pedagogue.He was born in Sveti Ivan Zelina in 1938. He graduated at the Zagreb Academy of Music in the class of Svetislav Stancic and won a master's degree at the Santa Cecilia Music Academy in Rome with Carlo Zecchi...


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  • Antonín Kubálek
    Antonin Kubalek
    Antonín Kubálek was a Czech-Canadian classical pianist.Kubálek was born in Libkovice, Most District, Czechoslovakia and studied in Prague with Czech pianist František Maxián. He emigrated to Canada in 1968 and settled in Toronto...

  • Anton Kuerti
    Anton Kuerti
    Anton Kuerti, OC is an Austrian-born Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. Since his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops Orchestra at age 11, he has developed international recognition as a solo pianist, particularly focusing on the works of Beethoven...

  • Friedrich Kuhlau
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age....

  • Theodor Kullak
    Theodor Kullak
    Theodor Kullak was a German pianist, composer, and teacher.-Background:Kullak was born in Krotoschin in the Grand Duchy of Posen, in Wielkopolska - western part of Poland taken during the second partition of Poland by Kingdom of Prussia. He began his piano studies as a pupil of Albrecht Agthe in...

  • Miroslav Kultyshev
    Miroslav Kultyshev
    Miroslav Kultyshev is a Russian classical pianist and was awarded second prize at the 2007 International Tchaikovsky Competition .-Early life and education:...

  • Eduard Kunz
    Eduard Kunz
    Eduard Kunz , born October 30 1980, Omsk, - Russian pianist.- Biography :Named among 10 tomorrow's great pianists by the BBC Music Magazine, Eduard Kunz has performed and broadcast frequently with almost every major orchestra in the UK including BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra,...

  • Vilém Kurz
    Vilém Kurz
    Vilém Kurz was a Czech pianist and piano teacher, a professor at the State Conservatory in Lwów and Vienna, and Prague Conservatory...

  • Elena Kuschnerova
    Elena Kuschnerova
    - Biography :Elena Kuschnerova was born into a musical family in Moscow and trained at the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She currently lives in Germany...

  • Christiaan Kuyvenhoven
    Christiaan Kuyvenhoven
    Christiaan Kuyvenhoven is a Dutch pianist.In April 2005 Kuyvenhoven won Third Prize at the prestigious International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, which took place in Utrecht for the seventh time. By winning the prize, Kuyvenhoven became the first Dutch pianist in sixteen years to win a prize at...

  • Leonid Kuzmin
    Leonid Kuzmin
    Leonid Kuzmin is a Belarussian pianist.He won the Belarussian State Competition and the Prague Competition before settling in the United States in the 80s. He subsequently shared the 1991 Liszt-Bartók Competition's 2nd prize with Midori Nohara...

  • Radoslav Kvapil
    Radoslav Kvapil
    Radoslav Kvapil is an internationally acclaimed Czech pianist and composer, considered by some to be the among the finest exponents of Czech piano music...

  • Rena Kyriakou
    Rena Kyriakou
    Rena Kyriakou was a pianist and composer born in Herakleion, Crete, Greece.-Education:Rena Kyriakou revealed an early aptitude for the piano and for composition, and gave her first public performance at the age of six in Athens, performing twelve original piano pieces...


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  • Katia Labèque
    Katia and Marielle Labèque
    The French sisters Labèque, Katia and Marielle , form an internationally known piano duo. They have performed and recorded most of the repertoire for two pianos, spanning the instrumental, chamber, and concerto genres encompassing musical periods from Baroque through contemporary.Katia and...

  • Marielle Labèque
    Katia and Marielle Labèque
    The French sisters Labèque, Katia and Marielle , form an internationally known piano duo. They have performed and recorded most of the repertoire for two pianos, spanning the instrumental, chamber, and concerto genres encompassing musical periods from Baroque through contemporary.Katia and...

  • Utsav Lal
    Utsav Lal
    -Career:Lal gave his debut solo piano concert in New Delhi, India at the age of 9 with a unique repertoire of Indian Music compositions. Currently based in Dublin, Ireland and oft referred to as a child prodigy, Utsav is a Western Classical Pianist , London as well as a Jazz pianist...

  • Frederic Lamond
  • Geoffrey Lancaster
    Geoffrey Lancaster
    Geoffrey Lancaster AM is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney, he was raised in Dubbo, New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with Larry Sitsky...

  • Walter Landauer
    Rawicz and Landauer
    Rawicz and Landauer were an immensely popular piano duo team that performed from 1932 to 1970. They were initially based in Vienna, Austria, but moved to the United Kingdom in the early part of their career. They were known for their arrangements of popular classics.Marjan Rawicz was Polish...

  • Wanda Landowska
    Wanda Landowska
    Wanda Landowska was a Polish harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century...

  • Piers Lane
    Piers Lane
    Piers Lane is an Australian classical pianist. His performance career has taken him to more than 40 countries. His concerto repertoire exceeds 75 works.- Early life :...

  • Lang Lang
    Lang Lang (pianist)
    Lang Lang , born June 14, 1982, in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, is a Chinese concert pianist, currently residing in New York, who has performed with leading orchestras in Europe, the United States and his native China. He is increasingly well known around the world for his concert performances,...

  • Milan Langer
    Milan Langer
    Milan Langer is a Czech pianist.He won Smetana Competition and the Chopin Competition in Mariánské Lázně, and was prized at the 1976 Paloma O'Shea Competition...

  • Ruth Laredo
    Ruth Laredo
    Ruth Laredo was an American classical pianist.She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff, for her Ravel recordings and in the last 16½ years before her death for her series in the...

  • Ervin László
    Ervin László
    Ervin László is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, originally a classical pianist. He has published about 75 books and over 400 papers, and is editor of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution...

  • Jacob Lateiner
    Jacob Lateiner
    Jacob Lateiner, was a Cuban-American pianist. He was actually born on March 31, 1928, but his father did not get around to registering his birth until May 31 the same year.He was the brother of violinist Isidor Lateiner....

  • Franz Lauska
    Franz Lauska
    Franz Seraphin Lauska was a Moravian pianist, composer, and teacher of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Lauska was considered "one of the most brilliant executants of his time."- Biography :...

  • Ingmar Lazar
    Ingmar Lazar
    Ingmar Lazar is a French classical pianist.Ingmar Lazar started to play the piano when he was 5. He made his debut at the age of six at the Salle Gaveau in Paris....

  • George-Emmanuel Lazaridis
    George-Emmanuel Lazaridis
    George-Emmanuel Lazaridis, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1978, is a Greek pianist and composer.-Biography:Lazaridis was born in Greece on 17 April 1978...

  • Igor Lazko
    Igor Lazko
    Igor Lazko , , is a Russian classical pianist who has made a distinguished international career as performer, recording artist and teacher of other pianists.- Early career in Russia :...


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  • Ka Ling Colleen Lee
    Colleen Lee
    Colleen Lee Ka-ling is a Hong Kong pianist who won the 6th place prize in the 15th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in 2005.-Biography:...

  • Denoe Leedy
  • Reinbert de Leeuw
  • Christian Leotta
    Christian Leotta
    Christian Leotta is an award-winning Italian virtuoso pianist. Leotta has a vast repertoire and is now recoginzed for being the youngest pianist since Daniel Barenboim to perform and record all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas....

  • Theodor Leschetizky
  • Ray Lev
    Ray Lev
    Ray Lev was an American classical pianist. One year after her birth in Rostov na Donau, Russia, her father, a synagogue cantor, and mother, a concert singer, brought her to the United States.-Life:...

  • Eric Le Van
    Eric Le Van
    Eric Le Van is an American classical pianist particularly known for his interpretations of the music of Brahms and Scriabin...

  • Oscar Levant
    Oscar Levant
    Oscar Levant was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.-Life and career:...

  • Beth Levin
    Beth Levin
    Beth Levin is an American classical pianist in the Romantic tradition of her teachers Marian Filar, Rudolf Serkin, Leonard Shure, and Dorothy Taubman at the...

  • Robert Levin
    Robert Levin (Norwegian pianist)
    Robert Levin was a Norwegian classical pianist and composer. Although he was an accomplished solo pianist and composer in his own right, Levin received international acclaim for his work as an accompanist with several of the world's most celebrated vocal and instrumental...

     Norwegian pianist
  • Robert Levin
    Robert D. Levin
    Robert D. Levin is a classical performer, musicologist, and composer, and is the Artistic Director of the Sarasota Music Festival.-Education:...

     American pianist
  • James Levine
    James Levine
    James Lawrence Levine is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and former music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine's first performance conducting the Metropolitan Opera was on June 5, 1971, and as of May 2011 he has...

  • Mischa Levitzki
    Mischa Levitzki
    Mischa Levitzki was a Russian-born American concert pianist.Levitzki was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine , to Jewish parents who were naturalised American citizens on a return trip to Ukraine...

  • Daniel Levy
    Daniel Levy (classical pianist)
    Daniel Levy is a classical pianist from Argentina. In addition to being a highly successful musician, Levy has created a career for himself as an author, radio broadcaster and educator.- Early life :Daniel Levy was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina...

  • Ernst Levy
    Ernst Levy
    Ernst Levy was a Swiss musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor....

  • Raymond Lewenthal
    Raymond Lewenthal
    Raymond Lewenthal was an American pianist.-Biography:Lewenthal was born in San Antonio, Texas to Russian-French parents. His birth date is often given as 1926, but he was actually born three years earlier in 1923...

  • Paul Lewis
    Paul Lewis (pianist)
    Paul Lewis is an English classical pianist. His father worked at the Liverpool docks and his mother was a local council worker; there were no musicians in his family background....


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  • Josef Lhévinne
    Josef Lhévinne
    Josef Lhévinne was a Russian pianist and piano teacher.Joseph Arkadievich Levin was born into a family of musicians in Oryol and studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Moscow under Vasily Safonov...

  • Rosina Lhévinne
    Rosina Lhévinne
    Rosina Bessie Lhévinne was a Russian American pianist and famed pedagogue....

  • Ming Qiang Li
    Ming-Qiang Li
    Li Ming-Qiang - is a Chinese classical pianist. He studied under Alfred Wittenberg and Tatiana Kravchenko, and as a young pianist in the late 1950s and early 1960s won awards at several Eastern European music competitions: the Smetana Competition in Prague in 1957 , the Enescu Competition in...

  • Yundi Li
  • Wladziu Valentino Liberace
  • Cecile Licad
    Cecile Licad
    Cecile Licad is a renowned Filipina virtuoso classical pianist dubbed as a "a pianist's pianist" by The New Yorker, "her artistry, a blend of daring musical instinct and superb training." -Biography:...

  • John Lill
    John Lill
    John Lill CBE is an English classical pianist.-Biography:Lill studied at the Royal College of Music and with Wilhelm Kempff. His talent emerged at an early age, as he gave his first piano recital at the age of nine. At age 18, he performed Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto under Sir Adrian Boult...

  • Arthur Moreira Lima
    Arthur Moreira Lima (pianist)
    Arthur Moreira Lima is a Brazilian classical pianist.Arthur began learning the piano at the age of six and when he was nine he was already playing a Mozart piano concerto in public....

  • Dinu Lipatti
    Dinu Lipatti
    Dinu Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.-Biography:...

  • Valentina Lisitsa
    Valentina Lisitsa
    Valentina Lisitsa is a Ukrainian-born classical pianist. Lisitsa resides in North Carolina in the USA. Her husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff, is also a pianist and her partner in a number of piano duets.- Biography :Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1973...

  • James Lisney
    James Lisney
    James Lisney is an international concert pianist. He studied with Phyllis Sellick and John Barstow – and early success was achieved after he gained representation by the Young Concert Artists Trust...

  • Eugene List
    Eugene List
    Eugene List was an American concert pianist and teacher.-Early life:Eugene List was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, California where his father Louis List was a language teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District and his mother, Rose, a...

  • Barbara Lister-Sink
    Barbara Lister-Sink
    Barbara Lister-Sink is a classical pianist with an international career and a specialist in injury-preventive keyboard technique. -Biography:...

  • Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...


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  • Peter Lockwood
    Peter Lockwood
    Peter Lockwood is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, for a single term from 2002 to 2006....

  • Nicolai Lomov
    Nicolai Lomov
    Nicolai Lomov is a Russian classical pianist, who played with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra before emigrating to the United States.-Biography:...

  • Kathleen Long
    Kathleen Long
    Kathleen Long CBE was a British pianist and teacher. She was an awarded soloist, but was also a much appreciated chamber music player and recitalist. Her tours included Europe, North America and South Africa....

  • Marguerite Long
    Marguerite Long
    Marguerite Long was a French pianist and teacher.Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was born in Nîmes. She studied with Henri Fissot at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1891, and privately with Antoine François Marmontel...

  • Thomas Lorango
    Thomas Lorango
    Thomas Lorango, American pianist, was born on June 8, 1959 in Buffalo, New York; he died of AIDS on December 30, 1992 in New York City.-Life:...

  • Roger Lord
    Roger Lord
    Roger Lord is an internationally acclaimed performing classical pianist and Professor of Piano at l'Université de Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada....

  • Wolfram Lorenzen
    Wolfram Lorenzen
    Wolfram Lorenzen is a German pianist.Wolfram Lorenzen studied with Klaus Linder, Ludwig Hoffmann, Paul Badura-Skoda and participated in masterclasses held by Wilhelm Kempff, amon others...

  • Yvonne Loriod
    Yvonne Loriod
    Yvonne Loriod was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod.-Life:...

  • Louis Lortie
    Louis Lortie
    Louis Lortie, OC, CQ is a French-Canadian pianist. He currently lives in Berlin.He is known for his interpretation of Ravel, Chopin and Beethoven...

  • Iris Loveridge
    Iris Loveridge
    Iris Gwendolyne M. Loveridge was an English classical pianist.Born in West Ham, London, she attended the Royal College of Music, and later the Royal Academy. She specialised in British contemporary music, including piano sonatas by Arnold Bax, Gordon Jacob , E.J. Moeran and Edmund Rubbra...

  • Anne Lovett
    Anne Lovett
    Anne Lovett was a fifteen year old schoolgirl from Granard, County Longford, Ireland who died giving birth beside a grotto on January 31 1984. Her baby son died at the same time and the story of her death opened up a seminal national debate in the country about women giving birth outside...

  • Jerome Lowenthal
    Jerome Lowenthal
    Jerome Lowenthal is an American classical pianist. He is a professor of piano at the Juilliard School in New York, where he was also chair of the piano department. Additionally, Lowenthal is on the faculty at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.He made his debut at 13 with the...


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  • Alexei Lubimov
    Alexei Lubimov
    Alexei Lubimov is a Russian pianist, fortepianist and harpsichordist.Alexei Lubimov studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Neuhaus and Lew Naumov...

  • Nikolai Lugansky
    Nikolai Lugansky
    Nikolai Lugansky is a Russian pianist from Moscow. At the age of five, before he had even started to learn the piano, he astonished his parents when he sat down at the piano and played a Beethoven sonata by ear, which he had just heard a relative play. He studied piano at the Moscow Central Music...

  • Jean-Marc Luisada
    Jean-Marc Luisada
    Jean-Marc Luisada is a French pianist born in Bizerte, Tunisia. He started on the piano at six years old, "the normal age".At the age of 16 he began studies at the Conservatoire de Paris under Dominique Merlet and Marcel Ciampi and Genevieve Joy-Dutilleux...

  • Ioana Maria Lupascu
    Ioana Maria Lupascu
    Ioana Maria Lupaşcu is a Romanian pianist.Born to an old family of doctors, Lupaşcu started piano studies by the age of 4 and gave her first public performance by the age of 6. After graduating from the Music Conservatory in Bucharest, she left to Switzerland...

  • Radu Lupu
    Radu Lupu
    Radu Lupu is a Romanian concert pianist. He has won a number of the most prestigious awards in classical piano, including first prizes in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition....

  • Witold Lutosławski
  • Sergei Lyapunov
    Sergei Lyapunov
    Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian composer and pianist.-Life:Lyapunov was born in Yaroslavl in 1859. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers went to live in the larger town of Nizhny Novgorod...

  • Moura Lympany
    Moura Lympany
    Dame Moura Lympany DBE was an English concert pianist.She was born as Mary Gertrude Johnstone at Saltash, Cornwall. Her father was an army officer who had served in World War I and her mother originally taught her the piano...

  • Charles Lynch
    Charles Lynch (pianist)
    Charles Edgeworth Cagney Lynch was an Irish pianist who premiered works by several important 20th century composers.-Background and early life:...

  • Clive Lythgoe
    Clive Lythgoe
    Clive Lythgoe , was a leading British classical pianist of the 1950s and 1960s, popular in both the UK and the United States, where he was considered to be "Britain's answer to Liberace".-Early life:...


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  • Edward MacDowell
    Edward MacDowell
    Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose"...

  • Joanna MacGregor
    Joanna MacGregor
    Joanna MacGregor is a classical, jazz and contemporary pianist.-Biography:MacGregor grew up in North London, and was educated at home by her Seventh-day Adventist parents until she attended South Hampstead High School at the age of 11. Her mother is a piano teacher who studied at the Royal...

  • Geoffrey Douglas Madge
    Geoffrey Douglas Madge
    Geoffrey Douglas Madge is an Australian classical pianist and composer.Madge performed long and arduous works, he has twice recorded Sorabji's Opus clavicembalisticum, one of the longest and most difficult works ever written for the piano...

  • Aleksandar Madžar
    Aleksandar Madžar (musician)
    Aleksandar Madžar is a Serbian pianist.Madžar first studied piano with Gordana Matinovic, Arbo Valdma and Eliso Virsaladze in Belgrade and Moscow, then with Edouard Mirzoian at the Strasbourg Conservatory and in Brussels with Daniel Blumenthal...

  • Nikita Magaloff
    Nikita Magaloff
    Nikita Magaloff was a Georgian-Russian pianist.He was born in Saint Petersburg to a Georgian noble family named Maghalashvili. Magaloff and his family left Russia in 1918 for Finland and then Paris, where he studied with Isidor Philipp, chair of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory...

  • Frederik Magle
    Frederik Magle
    Frederik Magle is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He studied composition and music theory with Leif Thybo and attended the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he studied composition and organ...

  • Désiré Magnus
    Désiré Magnus
    Désiré Magnus was a Belgian concert pianist, teacher and composer of salon music who published under the pseudonym D Magnus.-Biography:...

  • Petronel Malan
    Petronel Malan
    Petronel Malan is a South African concert pianist.Grammy-nominated South African pianist Malan is an exclusive recording artist for the internationally recognized label Hänssler Classic based in Holzgerlingen near Stuttgart in Germany...

  • Krzysztof Malek
    Krzysztof Malek
    Krzysztof Malek is a Polish born concert pianist originally from Stalowa Wola, Poland, currently residing in Sydney, Australia. He is best known for his performances of music of the romantic period especially Chopin and Liszt.-Biography:...

  • Witold Małcużyński

Mar-May

  • Rosario Marciano
    Rosario Marciano
    Rosario Marciano, born July 5, 1944 in Caracas, Venezuela, died there September 4, 1998 was a classical pianist, musicologist and teacher.-Life and career:Rosario Marciano was a musician who combined performance, scholarship and teaching...

  • Adele Marcus
    Adele Marcus
    Adele Marcus was an American pianist, but better known as a teacher of many other famous pianists.She was born in Kansas City, the last of 13 children of a rabbi of Russian descent...

  • Jura Margulis
    Jura Margulis
    Jura Margulis is a Russian born, German raised, US based internationally acclaimed concert pianist, recording artist, and pedagogue.- Education :...

  • Irén Marik
    Iren Marik
    Iren Marik was a classical pianist born in Hungary in 1905. Although she studied with composer Béla Bartók and studied at Budapest's Liszt Academy, she fled Hungary after World War II and moved to the United States, where she taught at Sweet Briar College and eventually moved to the small town of...

  • Ozan Marsh
    Ozan Marsh
    Ozan Marsh was a pianist active in concert performances throughout the world as well as across the United States....

  • Oleg Marshev
    Oleg Marshev
    Oleg Marshev is a Soviet and Russian pianist, born in Baku and now a resident of Italy.- Biography :Oleg was born in the Azerbaijani capital city of Baku, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Mikhail Voskresensky, graduating in 1988 and winning the Pilar Bayona International Piano...

  • Philip Martin
    Philip Martin (pianist)
    Philip Martin is an Irish pianist and composer.Philip Martin was born in Dublin and won an Associated Board scholarship to the Royal Academy of music in London where he studied with Franz Reizenstein, Whilst there, he won many prestigious awards and prizes...

  • Malcolm Martineau
    Malcolm Martineau
    Malcolm Martineau is a Scottish pianist.- Biography :Born in Edinburgh, and educated at George Watson's College, Malcolm Martineau read Music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge...

  • João Carlos Martins
    João Carlos Martins
    João Carlos Martins, born June 25, 1940 in Sao Paulo, Brazil is an acclaimed Brazilian classical pianist and conductor, who has performed with leading orchestras in the United States, Europe and Brazil....

  • Giuseppe Martucci
    Giuseppe Martucci
    Giuseppe Martucci was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music...

  • Eduard Marxsen
    Eduard Marxsen
    Eduard Marxsen was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was a pupil of Ignaz von Seyfried, Simon Sechter, Johann Heinrich Clasing, and Karl Maria von Bocklet....

  • William Mason
    William Mason (composer)
    William Mason was an American composer and pianist and a member of a musical family.Mason's father was composer Lowell Mason, a leading figure in American church music...

  • William Masselos
    William Masselos
    William Masselos was an American classical pianist.-Biography:William Masselos was born in Niagara Falls, New York to a Dutch mother and a Greek father...

  • Draga Matkovic
    Draga Matkovic
    Draga Matkovic is a contemporary German classical pianist of Croatian origin.- Life :...

  • Denis Matsuev
    Denis Matsuev
    Denis Leonidovich Matsuev is a Russian pianist, one of the most popular classical music performers of his generation, the winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998 in Moscow , laureate of esteemed Shostakovich Prize in Music and State Prize of Russian Federation in Literature and...


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  • Edwin McArthur
    Edwin McArthur
    Edwin McArthur was a celebrated American classical music conductor, pianist and accompanist. From 1935 until her retirement in 1955 he was the usual accompanist of the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad....

  • Stephanie McCallum
    Stephanie McCallum
    Stephanie McCallum is a classical pianist. She has recorded works of Erik Satie, Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Carl Maria von Weber, Albéric Magnard, Pierre Boulez, and Iannis Xenakis among others.-Life:Stephanie McCallum studied with Alexander...

  • Leon McCawley
    Leon McCawley
    Leon McCawley is a British classical pianist.He studied with Heather Slade-Lipkin at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and with Eleanor Sokoloff at The Curtis Institute of Music in the United States, and latterly pianist Nina Milkina was a source of inspiration.He won the first prize in the...

  • Anne-Marie McDermott
    Anne-Marie McDermott
    Anne-Marie McDermott is a classical music pianist, and member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is also the artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, and Artistic Director of the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Key Largo, FL and the Avila Chamber Music...

  • Murray McLachlan
  • Nikolai Medtner
    Nikolai Medtner
    Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist.A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano...

  • Hephzibah Menuhin
    Hephzibah Menuhin
    Hephzibah Menuhin was an American-Australian pianist and human rights campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Lord Menuhin and to the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin...

  • Yaltah Menuhin
    Yaltah Menuhin
    Yaltah Menuhin was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet.-Early life:Yaltah was born of Russian Jewish parents in San Francisco, the youngest of three extraordinarily musical children. Her siblings were Yehudi Menuhin and Hephzibah Menuhin...

  • Yolanda Mero
    Yolanda Mero
    Yolanda Mero was a Hungarian-American pianist, opera and theatre impresario, and philanthropist who supported destitute musicians.-Pianist:...

  • Victor Merzhanov
    Victor Merzhanov
    -Biography:Studied at Tambov Musical College with Solomon Starikov and Alexander Poltoratsky. Between 1936-1941 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the classes of Samuil Feinberg and Alexander Goedicke , graduating with distinction....

  • Noel Mewton-Wood
    Noel Mewton-Wood
    Noel Mewton-Wood was an Australian-born concert pianist who achieved some fame during his short life.-Life and career:...

  • Marcelle Meyer
    Marcelle Meyer
    Marcelle Meyer was a French pianist.Marcelle Meyer was born in Lille, France on 22 May 1897. She was taught piano from the age of five by her sister Germaine, and entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1911....

  • Aleksander Michałowski
  • Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
    Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
    Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a virtuoso Italian classical pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, as well as one of the most important Italian pianists along with Ferruccio Busoni and Maurizio Pollini.-Biography:Born in Brescia, Italy, he began...

  • Miloš Mihajlović
    Miloš Mihajlovic
    Miloš Mihajlović is a Serbian pianist and university professor.- Education :...

  • Karol Mikuli
  • Kenneth G. Mills
    Kenneth G. Mills
    Kenneth George Mills was a Canadian metaphysical/philosophical speaker and author. An exponent of the oral tradition, he gave spontaneous lectures and poetry for over 37 years. At the same time, he became noted for his accomplishments in music, particularly as the conductor of the choral ensemble...

  • Hamish Milne
    Hamish Milne
    Hamish Milne is a British pianist known for his advocacy of Nikolai Medtner.Milne studied at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he now teaches, and later in Italy under Guido Agosti...

  • Martha Mier
    Martha Mier
    Martha Mier is an independent piano teacher and composer of piano pieces. She resides in Lake City, Florida, where she moved after graduating with honors from Florida State University. She is known for composing "Seventh Street Blues" jazz rags & Blues: Book 1...


Mo-Mu

  • Benno Moiseiwitsch
    Benno Moiseiwitsch
    Benno Moiseiwitsch CBE was a Ukrainian-born British pianist.-Biography:Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Moiseiwitsch began his studies at age seven at the Odessa Music Academy. He won the Anton Rubinstein Prize when he was just nine years old. He later took lessons from Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna...

  • Gabriela Montero
    Gabriela Montero
    Gabriela Montero is a Venezuelan-American pianist.Born in Caracas, Venezuela, of an American-born mother and a Venezuelan father, Gabriela Montero was barely a seven-month-old infant when her parents, at the insistence of her maternal grandmother, placed a toy piano in her playpen. It had been...

  • Sergio Monteiro
    Sergio Monteiro
    Sergio Monteiro is a Brazilian pianist.He began studying the piano at the age of 4 and went on to work under the guidance of Myrian Dauelsberg at the National Music School of Rio de Janeiro, where he completed the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree...

  • Emánuel Moór
    Emánuel Moór
    Emánuel Moór was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor of musical instruments....

  • Gerald Moore
    Gerald Moore
    Gerald Moore CBE was an English pianist best known for his career as one of the most in-demand accompanists of his day, accompanying many of the world's most famous musicians...

  • Ivan Moravec
    Ivan Moravec
    Ivan Moravec is a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career, spanning nearly half a century, has gained him a worldwide following....

  • Harold Morris
  • Ignaz Moscheles
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.-Sources:Much of what we know about Moscheles's life...

  • Jurij Moskvitin
    Jurij Moskvitin
    Jurij Moskvitin was a classical pianist, composer, philosopher, mathematician and boheme....

  • Moritz Moszkowski
    Moritz Moszkowski
    Moritz Moszkowski was a German Jewish composer, pianist, and teacher of Polish descent. Ignacy Paderewski said, "After Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano"...

  • Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
    Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
    Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , also known as F. X. Mozart, W. A. Mozart Son, or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jr., was the youngest child of six born to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze. He was the younger of his parents' two surviving children...

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

  • Ian Munro
    Ian Munro (pianist)
    Ian Munro is an Australian pianist, composer, writer and music educator. His career has taken him to over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia.-Biography:...

  • Mieczysław Munz
  • William Murdoch
    William Murdoch
    William Murdoch was a Scottish engineer and long-term inventor.Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham, England.He was the inventor of the oscillating steam...

  • Olli Mustonen
    Olli Mustonen
    Olli Mustonen is a Finnish pianist, conductor and composer.- Biography :He studied harpsichord and piano from the age of five with Ralf Gothóni and then Eero Heinonen. He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1975...


Na-Ni

  • Peter Nagy
    Peter Nagy
    Peter Nagy is a Czechoslovak-Slovak slalom canoer who competed from the early 1990s from the early 2000s. He won a bronze medal for Czechoslovakia in the K-1 team event at the 1991 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Tacen....

  • Jon Nakamatsu
    Jon Nakamatsu
    Jon Yasuhiro Nakamatsu is a Japanese American classical pianist who still resides in San Jose but mostly performs away from home. He is the son of David Y. Nakamatsu and Karen F. Maeda Nakamatsu .In June 1997 Nakamatsu won the Gold Medal at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition...

  • Alexei Nasedkin
    Aleksey Nasedkin
    Aleksey Nasedkin is a Russian pianist and composer.A recipient of the People's Artist of the Russian Federation title, Nasedkin is the president of Russia's Schubert Society. He's a member of the Composers' Union of the USSR/RF and a professor at Moscow's Conservatory, where he has taught since...

  • Yves Nat
    Yves Nat
    Yves Nat was a French pianist and composer.-Biography:Yves Nat was born in Béziers and showed an early aptitude for both piano and composition. By the age of seven he was allowed to improvise each Sunday at the organ of Béziers' cathedral during mass...

  • Eldar Nebolsin
    Eldar Nebolsin
    Eldar Nebolsin is an Uzbek-born classical pianist.- Biography :Born in Uzbekistan in 1974, Nebolsin started studying piano at early age in his native country...

  • Anton Nel
    Anton Nel
    Anton Nel is an American classical pianist.Nel was born to Afrikaans-speaking parents in Johannesburg, South Africa. Nel made his debut at the age of twelve with Beethoven’s C Major Concerto after only two years of study...

  • Pascal Nemirovski
    Pascal Nemirovski
    Pascal Nemirovski is a French pianist. In 1981, he was admitted to The Juilliard School on full scholarship and studied with Nadia Reisenberg, pupil of Josef Hoffman and Adele Marcus, pupil of Josef Lhevinne....

  • Heinrich Neuhaus
    Heinrich Neuhaus
    Heinrich Gustavovich Neuhaus was a Soviet pianist and pedagogue of German extraction. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1922 to 1964. He was made a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1956...

  • Edmund Neupert
    Edmund Neupert
    Edmund Neupert was a Norwegian pianist and composer.He was a teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin from 1866-1868. He then moved to Copenhagen, where he held a position at the town's conservatory for two years. In 1881 he travelled to Moscow, and in 1882 he moved to Christiania , where he...

  • Ethelbert Nevin
  • Anthony Newman
    Anthony Newman
    Anthony Newman is a retired American football defensive back for the NFL. Newman played for the Los Angeles Rams from 1988–1994, New Orleans Saints from 1995–1997, and the Oakland Raiders from 1998-1999...

  • Elly Ney
    Elly Ney
    Elly Ney was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany....

  • Reid Nibley
    Reid N. Nibley
    Richard Neibaur Nibley was an American pianist, composer and music educator. He wrote the words and music to the Latter-day Saint hymn "I Know My Father Lives"....

  • Francesco Nicolosi
    Francesco Nicolosi
    - Biography :Nicolosi was born in Catania, Italy. He has lived in Naples, Italy since 1973 where he studied with Vincenzo Vitale. From 1996 he is president of the Sigismund Thalberg International Study Centre...

  • Stanislas Niedzielski
    Stanislas Niedzielski
    Stanislas Niedzielski was a Polish pianist, noted for his playing of Chopin. His given name is also seen as Stanislaw or Stanislaus....

  • Mitja Nikisch
    Mitja Nikisch
    Mitja Nikisch, a classical pianist and dance band leader, was born in Leipzig, Germany on May 21, 1899 and died in Venice, Italy on August 5, 1936.- Life :...

  • Tatiana Nikolayeva
    Tatiana Nikolayeva
    Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva was a Russian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher.-Early life:Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa in the Bryansk district on May 4, 1924...


No-Ny

  • David Owen Norris
    David Owen Norris
    -Life:Norris was born in 1953. He studied music at Keble College, Oxford where he was organ scholar; he is now an Honorary Fellow of the college. After leaving Oxford, he studied composition, and worked at the Royal Opera House as a repetiteur...

  • Eunice Norton
    Eunice Norton
    Eunice Norton was an American pianist.Norton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She studied as a child at the University of Minnesota with William Lindsay, who later introduced her to Dame Myra Hess...

  • Gustav Nottebohm
    Gustav Nottebohm
    Martin Gustav Nottebohm was a pianist, teacher, musical editor and composer who spent most of his career in Vienna. He is particularly celebrated for his studies of Beethoven....

  • Guiomar Novaes
    Guiomar Novaes
    Guiomar Novaes was a Brazilian pianist noted for individuality of tone and phrasing, singing line, and a subtle and nuanced approach to her interpretations...

  • Marie Novello
    Marie Novello
    Marie Novello was a Welsh pianist. She was one of Theodor Leschetizky's last students and performed in public from childhood. Her early death from throat cancer cut short a promising career just as she began to record for one of the major English labels, having already amassed a considerable...

  • Ervin Nyíregyházi
    Ervin Nyíregyházi
    Ervin Nyíregyházi was a Hungarian-born American pianist.-Childhood and early career:...


O

  • Lev Oborin
    Lev Oborin
    Lev Nikolayevich Oborin was a Russian pianist. He was the winner of the first International Chopin Piano Competition in 1927.The family moved a lot during his early childhood. When they settled down in Moscow in 1914, he was sent to music school. He studied with Yelena Gnessin, a pupil of...

  • John O'Conor
    John O'Conor
    John O'Conor is an Irish pianist and pedagogue, and former director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He is frequently cited as the greatest living interpreter of the piano music of Beethoven, having recorded his entire repertoire, including the sonatas, concerti, and bagatelles...

  • John Ogdon
    John Ogdon
    John Andrew Howard Ogdon was an English pianist and composer.-Biography:Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, and attended Manchester Grammar School, before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music between 1953 and 1957, where his fellow students under Richard Hall...

  • Garrick Ohlsson
    Garrick Ohlsson
    Garrick Ohlsson is an American classical pianist.Ohlsson was the first American to win first prize in the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition, in 1970. He also won first prize at the Busoni Competition in Italy and the Montreal Piano Competition in Canada...

  • Santos Ojeda
    Santos Ojeda
    Santos Ojeda was a Cuban-born American classical pianist and pedagogue.-Life and Studies:Ojeda was born in Caibarién in the province of Villa Clara, Cuba. He began studying piano at age 3 with his mother, Maria Luisa Valdes de Ojeda...

  • Mehmet Okonsar
    Mehmet Okonsar
    Mehmet Okonsar is a Turkish-Belgian pianist, composer, conductor, writer and educator.- Biography :...

  • Janusz Olejniczak
    Janusz Olejniczak
    Janusz Olejniczak is a Polish classical pianist and actor.Olejniczak's piano teachers were Ryszard Bakst and Zbigniew Drzewiecki. In 1970 he won 6th place in the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, and two years later he placed in the Alfredo Casella Piano Competition in...

  • Bart van Oort
    Bart van Oort
    Bart van Oort is a Dutch classical pianist.-Biography:Van Oort was born in Utrecht. After completing his studies in modern piano in the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 1983, he studied fortepiano there with Stanley Hoogland...

  • Ursula Oppens
    Ursula Oppens
    Ursula Oppens is an American classical pianist.-Biography:After earning her master's degree from the Juilliard School of Music, Oppens won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1968. This win led to her New York City debut at Carnegie Hall in 1969...

  • Gerhard Oppitz
    Gerhard Oppitz
    Gerhard Oppitz is a German classical pianist.He studied with Paul Buck, Hugo Steurer and Wilhelm Kempff. In 1981 he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München - the youngest in the history of the institute - where he still teaches. As a soloist he has appeared with...

  • Christopher O'Riley
    Christopher O'Riley
    Christopher O'Riley is an American classical pianist and public radio show host. He is the host of the weekly National Public Radio program From the Top. O'Riley is also known for his piano arrangements of songs by alternative artists....

  • Leo Ornstein
    Leo Ornstein
    Leo Ornstein was a leading American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century...

  • Rafael Orozco
  • Steven Osborne
    Steven Osborne (pianist)
    Steven Osborne is a Scottish pianist who has performed concertos and solo recitals worldwide.He was taught by Richard Beauchamp at St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh before going to the Royal Northern College of Music/Manchester University in Manchester to study under Renna Kellaway...

  • Clio-Danae Othoneou
    Clio-Danae Othoneou
    Clio Danae Othoneou is a Greek stage and television actress, musician and pianist.-Family and early life:Born September 30, 1979 in Thessaloniki, Greece, where her parents studied, is the oldest of three daughters....

  • Henrique Oswald
    Henrique Oswald
    Henrique Oswald was a Brazilian composer and pianist whose work fell into disfavor after the "Semana de Arte Moderna" manifesto. Oswald's father was a Swiss-German immigrant and his mother from Italy. The family name was changed from "Oschwald" due to concerns of discrimination...

  • Cécile Ousset
    Cécile Ousset
    Cécile Ousset is a French pianist.Cécile Ousset was born in Tarbes, France, and gave her first recital at the age of five, subsequently studying at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 10 with Marcel Ciampi where, aged only fourteen, she was awarded first prize in the piano graduation class of...

  • Vladimir Ovchinnikov
  • Charles Owen

Pa

  • Enrico Pace
    Enrico Pace
    -Biography:Enrico Pace was born in Rimini, Italy in 1967. He studied piano with Franco Scala, mainly at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. He was also active as conductor and composer. In 1987 he won first prize at the International Yamaha Competition in Stresa and in 1989 he was first prize...

  • Vladimir de Pachmann
    Vladimir de Pachmann
    Vladimir von Pachmann or Pachman was a pianist of Russian-German ethnicity, especially noted for performing the works of Chopin, and also for his eccentric on-stage style.-Biography:...

  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski
    Ignacy Jan Paderewski
    Ignacy Jan Paderewski GBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.-Biography:...

  • Kun-Woo Paik
    Kun-Woo Paik
    Kun-woo Paik is a South Korean pianist.-Early life:Kun Woo Paik was born in Seoul. he gave his first concert, aged 10, with the Korean National Orchestra . In the following years he performed many important works in Korea, including several premieres such as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition...

  • Jon Kimura Parker
    Jon Kimura Parker
    Jon Kimura Parker, OC is a Canadian pianist.- Biography :He was born in Vancouver, Canada, the son of Keiko Parker and the nephew of Edward Parker.He appeared with the Vancouver Youth Orchestra when he was five...

  • Ernst Pauer
    Ernst Pauer
    Ernst Pauer was an Austrian pianist, composer and educator.Pauer formed a direct link with great Viennese traditions: he was born in Vienna, his mother was a member of the famous Streicher family of piano makers, and for a time he was a piano pupil of Mozart's son, F. X. W. Mozart and a...


Pe-Pi

  • Güher Pekinel
    Pekinel sisters
    Güher Pekinel and Süher Pekinel as identical twins, are Turkish pianists performing mostly in duet.-Early years:...

  • Süher Pekinel
    Pekinel sisters
    Güher Pekinel and Süher Pekinel as identical twins, are Turkish pianists performing mostly in duet.-Early years:...

  • Leonard Pennario
    Leonard Pennario
    Leonard Pennario was an American classical pianist and composer.He was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles, attending Los Angeles High School remaining in L.A. for his entire career. He first came to notice when he performed Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto at age 12, with the...

  • Murray Perahia
    Murray Perahia
    Murray Perahia KBE is an American concert pianist and conductor.-Early life:Murray Perahia was born in the Bronx borough of New York City to a family of Sephardi Jewish origin. According to the biography on his Mozart piano sonatas CD, his first language was Judaeo-Spanish or, Ladino. The family...

  • Neal Peres Da Costa
    Neal Peres Da Costa
    Neal Peres Da Costa is an Australian harpsichordist, fortepianist and organist. He specialises in performance on historical keyboard instruments of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, for which he has gained international renown...

  • Alfredo Perl
    Alfredo Perl
    Alfredo Perl is a Chilean-German classical pianist and conductor, best known in the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. He is best known for his recitals of Beethoven's sonatas. He is the current conductor of the Detmold Chamber Orchestra....

  • Vlado Perlemuter
    Vlado Perlemuter
    Vlado Perlemuter was a Lithuanian-born French pianist.-Biography:Vlado Perlemuter was born to a Polish Jewish family, the third of four sons, in Kovno, Russia . At the age of three, he lost the use of his left eye in an accident.His family settled in France in 1907...

  • Vincent Persichetti
    Vincent Persichetti
    Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...

  • Egon Petri
    Egon Petri
    Egon Petri was a classical pianist.-Biography:Petri's family was Dutch and he was born a Dutch citizen, but he was born in Hanover in Germany and was brought up in Dresden. His father was a professional violinist who taught his son that instrument. Petri played in the Dresden Court Orchestra and...

  • Christina Petrowska-Quilico
    Christina Petrowska-Quilico
    Christina Petrowska-Quilico is a Canadian pianist. She is the second wife of Canadian baritone Louis Quilico.- Career :...

  • Isidor Philipp
    Isidor Philipp
    Isidor Philipp was a French pianist, composer, and distinguished pedagogue of Hungarian descent. He was born in Budapest and died in Paris.-Biography:...

  • Polo Piatti
    Polo Piatti
    Polo Piatti is a British-Argentine composer and concert pianist, known for his extensive work in the field of classical piano improvisation. Beyond his solo concerts, his work encompasses orchestral, choral and camera compositions as well as songs and film soundtracks.Piatti's compositional work...

  • Andrzej Pikul
    Andrzej Pikul
    Andrzej Pikul is a Polish pianist.Pikul graduated from the Academy of Music in Kraków, where he studied under Tadeusz Żmudziński, and from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna in the piano class of Paul Badura-Skoda...

  • Cecilia Pillado
    Cecilia Pillado
    Cecilia Pillado is an Italian Argentine film television and stage actor, a classical pianist and a composer.-Biography:As a young adult she was a member of the Goethe Institute Mendoza Theatre Company, directed by Gladys Ravalle, while pursuing her studies in music at the National University of Cuyo...

  • George Pinto
    George Pinto
    George Pinto was an English composer and keyboard virtuoso.-Family:He was baptized at St. Mary's, Lambeth on February 11, 1786 as George Sanders. Accounts of Pinto's life and character are tenuous. There seems to be no surviving correspondence, nor did he have any descendants preserving a family...

  • Maria João Pires
    Maria João Pires
    -Musical studies:Her first recital was at the age of five, and at the age of seven she was already playing Mozart Piano Concertos publicly. Two years later she received Portugal's top prize for young musicians. In the following years, she studied with Professor Campos Coelho at the Lisbon...

  • Johann Peter Pixis
    Johann Peter Pixis
    Johann Peter Pixis was a German pianist and composer born in Mannheim, Germany.He lived in Paris between 1825 and 1845, where he worked as a concert pianist...

  • Artur Pizarro
    Artur Pizarro
    Artur Pizarro is a Portuguese pianist of international acclaim. He performs internationally in solo recitals, in duos, with chamber music groups, and as a soloist with the world's leading orchestras. He has an extensive discography available on Linn Records, as well as on Naxos, Hyperion, Collins...


Pl-Po

  • Francis Planté
    Francis Planté
    Francis Planté was a French pianist famed as one of the first ever recording artists. He was France's most important pianist in the nineteenth century....

  • Mikhail Pletnev
    Mikhail Pletnev
    Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev is a Russian pianist, conductor, and composer.-Life and career:Pletnev was born into a very musical family in Arkhangelsk, then part of the Soviet Union; his father played and taught the bayan, and his mother the piano...

  • Ignaz Pleyel
    Ignaz Pleyel
    Ignace Joseph Pleyel , ; was an Austrian-born French composer and piano builder of the Classical period.-Early years:...

  • Jonathan Plowright
    Jonathan Plowright
    Jonathan Plowright is a British concert pianist. Educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire.Gold Medallist at The Royal Academy of Music, London where his professor was Alexander Kelly , and recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore USA with Julio...

  • Leo Podolsky
    Leo Podolsky
    Leo Podolsky was a classical pianist and educator.Leo Podolsky had many piano teachers in his youth, but George Lalewicz was credited as the most successful...

  • Ivo Pogorelić
    Ivo Pogorelic
    Ivo Pogorelić is a Croatian pianist.-Early life:He was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia, to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother...

  • François-Xavier Poizat
    François-Xavier Poizat
    François-Xavier Poizat is a French pianist. He was born in Grenoble. Poizat begun to study the piano at the age of 4, and by 2001 he had given his first recital at the CERN in Geneva at the age of eleven...

  • Daniel Pollack
    Daniel Pollack
    Daniel Pollack is an internationally renowned American pianist recognized for his signature colors in sound and over-the-edge thrilling virtuosity...

  • Maurizio Pollini
    Maurizio Pollini
    Maurizio Pollini is an Italian classical pianist.- Biography and career :Pollini was born in Milan to the Italian rationalist architect Gino Pollini. Maurizio studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso, until he was 18...

  • Antonio Pompa-Baldi
    Antonio Pompa-Baldi
    -Life:He graduated from the Umberto Giordano Conservatory of Foggia in 1993.After graduating, he moved to Napoli, where he studied with the Italian professor Annamaria Pennella.He also studied for about 18 months with the pianist Aldo Ciccolini....

  • Michael Ponti
    Michael Ponti
    Michael Ponti is a concert and recording pianist.-Life and career:Ponti was born in Germany, but has lived in the United States for most of his life...

  • Roland Pöntinen
    Roland Pöntinen
    Roland Peter Pöntinen is a Swedish pianist and composer.He is the son of a Finnish-speaking father, a native of the Russian district of Ingria who emigrated from the Soviet Union to Sweden in 1945...

  • Paul Posnak
    Paul Posnak
    Paul Posnak is an American pianist and music academic. He is noted for playing repertoires mixing twentieth century American music with European romantic classics, ranging from George Gershwin to Frédéric Chopin, from classical to jazz...

  • Viktoria Postnikova
    Viktoria Postnikova
    Viktoria Valentinovna Postnikova is a Russian pianist.-Biography:Postnikova was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. She entered the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory at age six, studying with E.B. Musaelian. She graduated in 1967, having studied there and in postgraduate...

  • Cipriani Potter
    Cipriani Potter
    Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter was a British composer, pianist and educator.-Life and career:Born in London, the son of a piano teacher named Richard Huddleston Potter, Cipriani was named after his godmother...

  • Harrison Potter
    Harrison Potter
    Harrison Potter was an American pianist and educator.Potter was born in North Adams, Massachusetts and studied piano with Felix Fox, and, in Paris, Isidor Philipp. Early in his career, Potter taught for a time at Boston's Fox-Buonamici Piano School. He also served as assistant conductor of the...

  • Leff Pouishnoff
    Leff Pouishnoff
    Leff Nicolas Pouishnoff was a Ukrainian-born pianist and composer, who made his home in the United Kingdom and whose career was largely in the West, from the 1920s onwards...

  • Francis Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc
    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...

  • Jonathan Powell
    Jonathan Powell (musician)
    Jonathan Powell is a British pianist and composer. He was a student of Denis Matthews and Sulamita Aronovsky. He made his performing debut at the age of 20 in the Purcell Room in London....


Pr-Pu

  • Awadagin Pratt
    Awadagin Pratt
    - Life :When he was 3 years old, Pratt moved with his parents to Normal, Illinois, where Illinois State University had offered his mother a position as a professor of social work and his Sierra Leone-born father, Theodore, one as a physics professor...

  • Menahem Pressler
    Menahem Pressler
    Menahem Pressler is a German-born American pianist, founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio.-Professional career:...

  • André Previn
    André Previn
    André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...

  • Paul Procopolis
    Paul Procopolis
    Paul Procopolis is the name given to a non-existent classical pianist who was credited as a performer on various recordings.With the advent of cheap long-playing records, unscrupulous companies issued records of material under pseudonyms to avoid paying royalties or because they did not own the...

  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

  • Roland Pröll
    Roland Pröll
    Roland Pröll is a German pianist, conductor, composer, musicologist, and professor of music.- Biography :...

  • Roberto Prosseda
    Roberto Prosseda
    Roberto Prosseda is an Italian classical pianist. His name is related to his Mendelssohn's CDs recorded for Decca , dedicated to Felix Mendelssohn's unknown piano works...

  • Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich , born on July 24, 1939 in Sofia, is a notable Bulgarian classical pianist and professor of music.-Biography:Svetla Protich started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 under prof. Dimitar Nenov, and performed her first solo-recital when she was only 8 years old...

  • Raoul Pugno
    Raoul Pugno
    Stéphane Raoul Pugno was a French composer, teacher, organist, and pianist known for his playing of Mozart's works.Raoul Pugno was born in Paris. He made his debut at the age of six, and with the help of Prince Poniatowski he was then able to study at the École Niedermeyer. He then went to the...


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  • Alexander Raab
    Alexander Raab
    Alexander Raab was a Hungarian-American pianist and distinguished piano teacher.Alexander Raab was born in Győr , Hungary. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory under Hans Schmitt , Robert Fuchs and Theodor Leschetizky and became acquainted with Johannes Brahms...

  • Valentin Radu
    Valentin Radu
    Valentin Radu is founder, artistic director and conductor of Vox Ama Deus, with performances at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and other various city, suburban, and Main Line area venues, has led numerous orchestras and vocal ensembles in Europe and the U.S., including the ,...

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...

  • Ezra Rachlin
    Ezra Rachlin
    Ezra Rachlin was an American conductor and pianist.Rachlin was born in Hollywood and first showed an interest in the piano at the age of three. He gave his first full-length recital at age five. The Rachlins moved to Germany to assist Ezra in his studies...

  • Thomas Rajna
    Thomas Rajna
    Thomas Rajna is a Hungarian-born composer and pianist, domiciled in Cape Town in South Africa since 1970. He started to play the piano and compose at an early age and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music where he won the Liszt Prize in 1947. That year he left Hungary to settle in London...

  • Dezső Ránki
    Dezsõ Ránki
    Dezső Ránki is a Hungarian pianist.Born September 8, 1951 in Budapest, he began taking piano lessons at the Budapest Academy of Music at the age of eight. When he was thirteen, he enrolled at the Budapest Conservatory and became a pupil of Klára Máthé. Subsequently he studied at the Franz Liszt...

  • Michael Raucheisen
    Michael Raucheisen
    Translated from German WikipediaMichael Raucheisen was a German pianist and song accompanist....

  • Marjan Rawicz
    Rawicz and Landauer
    Rawicz and Landauer were an immensely popular piano duo team that performed from 1932 to 1970. They were initially based in Vienna, Austria, but moved to the United Kingdom in the early part of their career. They were known for their arrangements of popular classics.Marjan Rawicz was Polish...

  • Alexander Raytchev
  • Walter Rehberg
    Walter Rehberg
    Walter Rehberg was a Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer on musical subjects who was particularly active from the 1920s to 1950s....

  • Carl Reinecke
    Carl Reinecke
    Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher...

  • Julius Reubke
    Julius Reubke
    Julius Reubke was a German composer, pianist and organist. In his short life — he died at the age of 24 — he composed the Sonata on the 94th Psalm, in C minor, which was and still is considered one of the greatest organ works in the repertoire.-Biography:Born in Hausneindorf, a small...

  • Lívia Rév
    Lívia Rév
    Lívia Rév is a classical concert pianist.Rév was born in Budapest, Hungary. She started her studies with Margit Varro and Klara Mathe. Aged nine, she won the Grand Prix des Enfants Prodiges. Aged twelve she performed with an orchestra...


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  • Sviatoslav Richter
    Sviatoslav Richter
    Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist well known for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique, and vast repertoire. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Childhood:...

  • Hans Richter-Haaser
    Hans Richter-Haaser
    Hans Richter-Haaser was a noted German classical pianist, who was known for his interpretations of Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. He was also a teacher, a conductor, and a composer....

  • Ferdinand Ries
    Ferdinand Ries
    Ferdinand Ries was a German composer.- Life :Born into a musical family of Bonn, Ries was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Wegeler...

  • Herman Rietzel
    Herman Rietzel
    Herman Rietzel was an American pianist, born in New York City, who died by drowning at age 19 on May 26, 1882. His father, Charles Rietzel, was Vice-President and first flute of the New York Philharmonic Society...

  • Bernard Ringeissen
    Bernard Ringeissen
    Bernard Ringeissen is a French classical pianist.He was born in Paris in 1934. His first teacher, at age 7, was Georges de Lausnay. He entered the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure de Musique in 1947, aged 12, and won the Premier Prix when he was sixteen. He had further study with Marguerite...

  • Édouard Risler
    Édouard Risler
    Joseph-Édouard Risler was a French pianist.- Biography :Risler was born in Baden-Baden of a German mother and an Alsatian father. He studied under Louis Diémer, Théodore Dubois and Émile Descombes at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1883 to 1890...


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  • Bernard Roberts
    Bernard Roberts
    Bernard Roberts is a notable English pianist. His treatment of the cycle of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas has been particularly highly acclaimed.He is also noted for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...

  • Santiago Rodriguez
    Santiago Rodriguez (pianist)
    Santiago Rodriguez is a Cuban-American pianist. Rodriguez is an exclusive recording artist for Élan Recordings. His Rachmaninov recordings received the Rosette award in The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music and he is a Silver Medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano...

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  • Pascal Rogé
    Pascal Rogé
    Pascal Rogé is a French pianist. His playing includes the works of compatriot composers Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and Poulenc, among others. However, his repertoire also covers the German masters Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven.- Biography :Rogé first appeared in public in...

  • Helmut Roloff
    Helmut Roloff
    Helmut Roloff was a German pianist and teacher.Roloff was born in Giessen where his father was a university history professor who was a staunch anti-Nazi. Roloff entered the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin in 1935, studying with Richard Rüssler...

  • Igor Roma
  • Aleksandra Romanić
    Aleksandra Romanić
    Aleksandra Romanic was born 1958 in Zagreb into a family of musicians. She was awarded a scholarship at the age of sixteen to go to the Moscow Tchaikovski Conservatory. She graduated in 1981 summa cum laude...

  • Sir Landon Ronald
    Landon Ronald
    Sir Landon Ronald was an English conductor, composer, pianist, singing teacher and administrator...

  • Julius Röntgen
    Julius Röntgen
    Julius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.-Life:Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, the aunt of...

  • Martin Roscoe
    Martin Roscoe
    Martin Roscoe is an English classical pianist. He teaches piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the Department of Keyboard Studies. He performs as a concerto soloist, as a recitalist and as a chamber musician....

  • Jerome Rose
    Jerome Rose
    -Biography:A pupil of Adolph Baller, Rose debuted with the San Francisco Symphony at the age of 15. A Mannes College and Juilliard School of Music graduate, he also studied with Leonard Shure and Rudolf Serkin at Marlboro Music School. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna as well...

  • Charles Rosen
    Charles Rosen
    Charles Rosen is an American pianist and author on music.-Life and career:In his youth he studied piano with Moriz Rosenthal. Rosenthal, born in 1862, had been a student of Franz Liszt...

  • Carol Rosenberger
    Carol Rosenberger
    Carol Rosenberger - is a classical pianist. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Carol studied in the U.S. with Webster Aitken and Katja Andy; in Paris with Nadia Boulanger; and in Vienna with harpsichordist/ Baroque scholar Eta Harich-Schneider and Schenker theorist Franz Eibner...

  • Moriz Rosenthal
    Moriz Rosenthal
    Moriz Rosenthal was a great Polish pianist. He was an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt and a friend and colleague of some of the greatest musicians of his age, including Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Anton Rubinstein, Hans von Bülow, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet and Isaac...

  • Nicholas Roth
    Nicholas Roth
    Nicholas Roth is an American classical pianist, recording artist and associate professor of piano at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He appeared as soloist with the St. Louis Symphony and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under Raymond Leppard, among others. Roth has been featured in...

  • Jacques Rouvier
    Jacques Rouvier
    Jacques Rouvier is a French pianist. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jean Hubeau, Vlado Perlemuter, and Pierre Sancan. He took two Premiers Prix : in piano performance and in chamber music .Rouvier was remarkably successful at piano competitions in his youth...

  • Mūza Rubackytė
    Muza Rubackyte
    Mūza Rubackytė is a Lithuanian pianist, currently residing in Vilnius and Paris. Rubackytė has been awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Lithuanian Muzes, and has been named as the National Artist of Lithuania....

  • Nikolai Rubinstein
  • Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...

  • Arthur Rubinstein
    Arthur Rubinstein
    Arthur Rubinstein KBE was a Polish-American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers...

  • James Russo
    James Russo
    James Vincent Russo is an American film and television actor. He has starred in over 90 films in three decades.-Early life:...

  • Frederic Rzewski
    Frederic Rzewski
    Frederic Anthony Rzewski is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.- Biography :Rzewski began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt...


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  • Vasily Safonov
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...

  • Anton Salnikov
    Anton Salnikov
    In April 2005, Russian pianist Anton Salnikov won Second Prize and the CenE Bankiers Audience Award at the 7th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht. As part of these awards, he had the opportunity to concertise in the major cities of the Netherlands, Russia, China and Brazil...

  • Mark Salman
  • Pnina Salzman
    Pnina Salzman
    Pnina Salzman was an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue....

  • Olga Samaroff
    Olga Samaroff
    Olga Samaroff was a pianist, music critic, and teacher. Her second husband was conductor Leopold Stokowski.Samaroff was born Lucy Mary Agnes Hickenlooper in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in Galveston, where her family owned a business later wiped out in the Great 1900 Galveston hurricane...

  • Adnan Sami
    Adnan Sami
    Adnan Sami is a British-born Pakistani-Indian- Canadian singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer of Pakistani origin. He currently holds Canadian citizenship and works and lives in Mumbai, India...

  • Harold Samuel
    Harold Samuel
    Not to be confused with Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross Harold Samuel was a distinguished English pianist and pedagogue. He was one of the first pianists of the 20th century to focus purely on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, and was known for his academic and cerebral approach...

  • Gyorgy Sandor
    György Sándor
    György Sándor was a Hungarian pianist, writer, student and friend of Béla Bartók, and champion of his music.- Early years :...

  • Jesús Maria Sanromá
    Jesús Maria Sanromá
    Jesús María Sanromá was a Puerto Rican pianist. He is considered by many to be one of the 20th century's most accomplished and important pianists.-Early years:...

  • Arthur Napoleão dos Santos
    Arthur Napoleão dos Santos
    Arthur Napoleão dos Santos was a Brazilian composer, pianist, instrument dealer and music publisher.-Biography:...

  • Wassily Sapellnikoff
    Wassily Sapellnikoff
    Wassily Sapellnikoff , was a Russian pianist.A more true transliteration of his name is Vasily Lvovich Sapelnikov, however when he concertised in England he chose the above version....

  • Erik Satie
    Erik Satie
    Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...

  • Emil von Sauer
    Emil von Sauer
    Emil Georg Conrad von Sauer was a notable German composer, pianist, score editor, and music teacher. He was a pupil of Franz Liszt and one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation...

  • Marko Savić
    Marko Savic
    Marko Savić is a Serbian pianist and university professor.-Education:Marko Savić graduated from the Belgrade Music Academy in 1965 and 1969 . He completed his postgraduate studies in Piano Performance at the Faculty of Music in Skopje...

  • Fazil Say
    Fazil Say
    Fazıl Say , is a Turkish pianist and composer born in Ankara, Turkey.-Biography:Born in 1970 in Ankara, Turkey, Fazıl Say started playing the piano at the age of four. He continued his music training in Ankara State Conservatory as a student of Special Status for Highly Talented Children and...


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  • Irene Scharrer
    Irene Scharrer
    Irene Scharrer was an English classical pianist.Irene Scharrer was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Tobias Matthay....

  • Xaver Scharwenka
    Xaver Scharwenka
    Franz Xaver Scharwenka was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was the brother of Philipp Scharwenka , who was also a composer and teacher of music.- Life and career :...

  • Konstantin Scherbakov
    Konstantin Scherbakov
    Konstantin Scherbakov is a Russian pianist. He was the winner of the first Rachmaninov Competition in 1983...

  • Ann Schein Carlyss
    Ann Schein Carlyss
    Ann Schein Carlyss was born to a violinist mother and an attorney father. She is a Master Teacher and Concert Pianist who has performed with many conductors, including George Szell, James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Sir Colin Davis...

  • András Schiff
    András Schiff
    András Schiff is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist, who has won a number of awards including the Grammy and made numerous recordings.- Biography :...

  • Madeline Schiller
    Madeline Schiller
    Madeline Schiller was an English-born pianist.After early studies in London with Benjamin Isaacs, Julius Benedict, and Charles Hallé, in 1860 she went to Leipzig where she studied with Ignaz Moscheles. She made her debut there on January 23, 1862, playing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1...

  • Victor Schiøler
    Victor Schiøler
    Victor Schiøler was a Danish classical pianist .-Biography:He studied with his mother, then with Ignaz Friedman and Artur Schnabel. He made his debut in 1914 and from 1919 toured Europe. He made his first American tour after the war in 1948-49. He was also active as a conductor in Denmark...

  • Steffen Schleiermacher
    Steffen Schleiermacher
    Steffen Schleiermacher is a German composer, pianist, and conductor.After studying at the Leipzig Music School with Siegfried Thiele, he continued working there as a music theory and ear training assistant...

  • Peter Schmalfuss
    Peter Schmalfuss
    Peter Schmalfuss was a German classical pianist born in Berlin, Germany.He studied with Walter Gieseking, Adrian Aeschbacher and, at the Beethoven-Class Positano, with Wilhelm Kempff...

  • Helmut Schmidt
    Helmut Schmidt
    Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting...

  • E. Robert Schmitz
    E. Robert Schmitz
    Elie Robert Schmitz was a Franco-American pianist and composer.Schmitz studied with Louis-Joseph Diémer at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won First Prize in Piano...

  • Artur Schnabel
    Artur Schnabel
    Artur Schnabel was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura...

  • Karl Ulrich Schnabel
    Karl Ulrich Schnabel
    Karl Ulrich Schnabel was an Austrian pianist, and the son of pianist Artur Schnabel and operatic contralto and lieder singer Therese Behr.-Biography:...


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  • Andre-Michel Schub
    Andre-Michel Schub
    -Biography:Schub came to New York City with his family, when he was eight months old. He began his piano studies with his mother when he was four, and later continued his work with Jascha Zayde. He attended Princeton University, and then transferred to the Curtis Institute of Music, where he...

  • Franz Schubert
    Franz Schubert
    Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

  • Clara Schumann
    Clara Schumann
    Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...

  • Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

  • Ludwig Schuncke
    Ludwig Schuncke
    Ludwig Schuncke was a German pianist and composer, and close friend of Robert Schumann. His early promise was eclipsed by his death from tuberculosis at the age of 23....

  • Arminda Schutte
    Arminda Schutte
    Arminda Schutte was a Cuban classical pianist and pedagogue.-Early Life and Training:Schutte was born in the farm of La Merced located near Matanzas City, Cuba, to a well-educated high middle-class family...


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  • Kathryn Selby
    Kathryn Selby
    Kathryn Selby is an Australian classical pianist. She is often known as Kathy Selby.She grew up in Sydney. She entered the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the age of seven. She followed this with study with Béla Síki at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1976 she was awarded a...

  • Blanche Selva
    Blanche Selva
    Blanche Selva was a French pianist, music educator, writer and composer of Catalan origin.-Biography:Blanche Selva was born in Brive-la-Gaillarde in Corrèze. As a child she studied piano with a number of teachers, took preparatory classes with Sophie Chen, and was admitted to the Paris...

  • Peter Serkin
    Peter Serkin
    -Biography:He was born in New York City and is the son of pianist Rudolf Serkin, and grandson of the influential violinist Adolf Busch, whose daughter Irene had married Rudolf Serkin...

  • Rudolf Serkin
    Rudolf Serkin
    Rudolf Serkin , was a Bohemian-born pianist.-Life and early career:Serkin was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Russian-Jewish family....

  • Dimitris Sgouros
    Dimitris Sgouros
    Dimitris Sgouros is a Greek classical pianist. He began playing the piano at a young age, and received formal training in Athens, London, and New York. Widely acclaimed for his prodigious musical talent as a boy, Sgouros is one of the world's leading concert pianists...


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  • Regina Shamvili
    Regina Shamvili
    Regina Shamvili is an American concert pianist and an artist of the United States Department of State, born in Tbilisi, Georgia.Shamvili graduated from both the Tbilisi State Conservatory and the Moscow Conservatory. Studied with such legendary pianists as Maria Grinberg, Yakov Flier and Grigory...

  • Barbara Shearer
    Barbara Shearer
    Barbara Shearer was a renowned American pianist and pedagogue at the University of California, Berkeley....

  • Mordecai Shehori
    Mordecai Shehori
    Mordecai Shehori is an Israeli-American pianist.-Biography:Mordecai Shehori was born in Israel and studied in Tel Aviv with Mindru Katz, whom he cites as his most influential teacher. At the age of nine he gave his first public performance. Later he received first prize in the Beethoven Competition...

  • Howard Shelley
    Howard Shelley
    Howard Gordon Shelley OBE is a British pianist and conductor. He was educated at Highgate School and the Royal College of Music...

  • Anatoly Sheludyakov
    Anatoly Sheludyakov
    Anatoly Sheludyakov is a classical pianist and composer. He was born in Moscow, Russia, where he completed his doctoral studies under professor Anatoly Vedernikov at the Gnesin Institute of Music. He also graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where he studied composition with Tikhon Khrennikov...

  • Russell Sherman
    Russell Sherman
    Russell Sherman is an American classical pianist, educator and author.Russell Sherman made his debut at The Town Hall in New York at age 15; later studying piano with Edward Steuermann and composition with Erich Itor Kahn...

  • Norman Shetler
    Norman Shetler
    Norman Shetler is a pianist, puppeteer and puppett constructor, and piano professor with Austrian nationality and American origin.-Life and career:...

  • Valery Sigalevitch
    Valery Sigalevitch
    Valery Sigalevitch is a Russian classical concert pianist.-Biography:...

  • Antti Siirala
    Antti Siirala
    Antti Siirala is a Finnish pianist.Antti Siirala’s international career was launched when he won First Prize in the 10th Vienna Beethoven competition as the youngest contestant, receiving the special award for the best performance of a late Beethoven sonata...

  • Béla Síki
    Béla Síki
    Béla Síki is a Hungarian pianist.He was born in Hungary, where he was a student in Budapest of Leo Weiner and Ernest von Dohnányi at the Franz Liszt Music Academy. He moved to Switzerland in 1945, where he studied with Dinu Lipatti and won, the 1948 Geneva Competition...

  • Alexander Siloti
    Alexander Siloti
    Alexander Ilyich Siloti was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. Alexander Ilyich Siloti (also Ziloti, , Aleksandr Iljič Ziloti) (9 October 1863, near Kharkiv - 8 December 1945, New York) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. Alexander Ilyich Siloti (also Ziloti, , Aleksandr Iljič...

  • Larry Sitsky
    Larry Sitsky
    Lazar Sitsky AM, usually referred to as Larry Sitsky, born 10 September 1934, is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar...

  • Abbey Simon
    Abbey Simon
    -Education:Simon began lessons with David Saperton at the age of five. At the age of eight, Simon was accepted by Józef Hofmann as a scholarship student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he trained with fellow classmates Jorge Bolet and Sidney Foster. Simon also took lessons...

  • Leo Sirota
    Leo Sirota
    Leo Sirota was a Jewish pianist born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolskaya Guberniya, Russian Empire, now Ukraine....

  • Larry Sitsky
    Larry Sitsky
    Lazar Sitsky AM, usually referred to as Larry Sitsky, born 10 September 1934, is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar...

  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

  • Leonard Shure
    Leonard Shure
    Leonard Shure was an American concert pianist, and heir to the tradition of the great Artur Schnabel, began his career as a performer at the age of 5 and as a teenager studied privately with Schnabel in Germany.-Life:Shure graduated from the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin in 1927, at which time he...


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  • Ruth Slenczynska
    Ruth Slenczynska
    -Early life:Ruth was born in Sacramento, California. Her father, Joseph Slenczynski was a violinist. Pushed by her parents and starting at age three, Slenczynska was forced to practice the piano relentlessly...

  • Alexander Slobodyanik
    Alexander Slobodyanik
    Alexander Slobodyanik was a classical pianist from Ukraine. He enjoyed a prodigious international career spanning over five decades. He made his debut tour to the United States in 1968 which included a recital at Carnegie Hall, which was highly praised by critics, recognizing him as a leader of...

  • Regina Smendzianka
    Regina Smendzianka
    Regina Smendzianka was a Polish pianist.Regina Smendzianka was born in Toruń, and began her public performances as a child of eight surprising the audience with her mature interpretation of the classical works...

  • Jan Smeterlin
    Jan Smeterlin
    Jan Smeterlin was a Polish concert pianist. He is especially known as an interpreter of Chopin and Karol Szymanowski.-Life:...

  • Leo Smit
  • Cyril Smith
    Cyril Smith (pianist)
    Cyril James Smith OBE was a virtuoso concert pianist of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and a piano teacher.-Personal life:...

  • Ronald Smith
    Ronald Smith
    Ronald Sam Smith was an English classical pianist, composer and teacher, born in London. He entered the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 16 with the Sir Michael Costa Scholarship for composition...

  • Sydney Smith
    Sydney Smith
    Sydney Smith was an English writer and Anglican cleric. -Life:Born in Woodford, Essex, England, Smith was the son of merchant Robert Smith and Maria Olier , who suffered from epilepsy...

  • Wibi Soerjadi
    Wibi Soerjadi
    Wibi Soerjadi is an internationally-recognized concert pianist who has performed with several veteran conductors, including Evgeny Svetlanov, Vassili Sinaisky and Sergiu Comissiona.-Collaborations:...

  • Vladimir Sofronitsky
    Vladimir Sofronitsky
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky was a Russian pianist, best known as an interpreter of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, whose daughter he married.-Biography:Vladimir Sofronitsky was born to a physics teacher father and a mother from an artistic family...

  • Grigory Sokolov
    Grigory Sokolov
    Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov is a concert pianist, often considered one of the greatest pianists alive. He was born April 18, 1950 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.-Biography:...

  • Ivan Sokolov
    Ivan Glebovich Sokolov
    Ivan Glebovich Sokolov is a Russian-born composer and pianist, currently living in Germany.After graduating from Moscow Conservatory in the early 80s, he taught composition and orchestral score reading there, while also promoting new music in concerts in and around Moscow...

  • Juan María Solare
    Juan María Solare
    Juan María Solare is an Argentine composer and pianist.-Education:Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Solare studied and received his diploma in piano , composition and conducting at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo...

  • Solomon
  • Wonny Song
    Wonny Song
    -See also:* Pianists* Canadian classical music* Young Concert Artists-External links:* * * * at Zankel Hall, from The New York Times...

  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
    Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
    Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, music critic, pianist, and writer.-Biography:...

  • Gonzalo Soriano
    Gonzalo Soriano
    Gonzalo Soriano was one of Spain's most distinguished classical pianists of the twentieth century.Born in Alicante, Soriano began studying music at an early age, but soon began to concentrate on piano. Graduating from the Royal Conservatory in Madrid in 1929, he went on to study piano and...

  • Jaap Spaanderman
    Jaap Spaanderman
    Jacobus Hendrikus Bastiaan Spaanderman jr. was a Dutch pianist, cellist, conductor and piano and conducting pedagogue....

  • Pietro Spada
    Pietro Spada
    Pietro Spada is an Italian pianist and musicologist . He is particularly noted for his technically masterful and vivid interpretations of works by lesser-known composers and his recordings of the piano music of John Field are highly regarded.-Biography:Pietro Spada is the second of three sons of...

  • Sun Meiting
    Mei-Ting Sun
    Mei-Ting Sun , born 14 March 1981, is a classical pianist.A native of Shanghai, Sun arrived in New York at the age of nine. He entered the Professional Children's School and the Mannes College of Music, where he studied ear training with Marie Powers, theory with Robert Cuckson, and piano with...


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  • Peter Stadlen
    Peter Stadlen
    Peter Stadlen was a composer, pianist, and musicologist, specializing in the study and interpretation of Beethoven....

  • Martin Stadtfeld
    Martin Stadtfeld
    Martin Stadtfeld is a German pianist.Stadtfeld gave his first concert at age 9, and at age 14 enrolled at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt under the tutelage of Russian-American professor Lev Natochenny...

  • Andreas Staier
    Andreas Staier
    Andreas Staier is a German pianist and harpsichordist.-Life:Staier studied piano and harpsichord in the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover, with Kurt Bauer and Erika Haase for piano and from Lajos Rovatkay for harpsichord, and also in Amsterdam. From 1983 until 1986 he was the harpsichord soloist for...

  • Camille-Marie Stamaty
    Camille-Marie Stamaty
    Camille-Marie Stamaty was a French pianist, piano teacher and composer predominantly of piano music and studies . Today largely forgotten, he was one of the preeminent piano teachers in 19th century Paris...

  • Susan Starr
    Susan Starr
    -Biography:She began her studies with Eleanor Sokoloff at age four. She later entered the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Rudolf Serkin until her graduation in 1961...

  • Bernhard Stavenhagen
    Bernhard Stavenhagen
    Bernhard Stavenhagen was a German pianist, composer and conductor. His musical style was influenced by Franz Liszt, and as a conductor he was a strong advocate of new music.-Biography:...

  • Daniel Steibelt
    Daniel Steibelt
    Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt , was a German pianist and composer who died in Saint Petersburg, Russia.-Life and music:Daniel Steibelt was born in Berlin, and studied music with Johann Kirnberger before being forced by his father to join the Prussian army. Deserting, he began a nomadic career as a...

  • Pavel Štěpán
    Pavel Štepán
    Prof. Pavel Štěpán , was a Czech pianist. He linked up in his career with his family's musical tradition: he is the grandson of Professor Vilém Kurz, a prominent Czech piano educator, and the son of piano virtuoso and teacher Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová and musicologist/pianist Václav Štěpán...

  • Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová
    Ilona Štepánová-Kurzová
    Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová was a Czech concert pianist and piano teacher, a professor at the Prague Academy of Arts. Her students included Ivan Moravec. Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová was the mother of pianist Pavel Štěpán.- Biography :Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová belongs to notable representatives of the Czech...

  • Eduard Steuermann
    Eduard Steuermann
    Eduard Steuermann was an Austrian pianist and composer. The actress Salka Viertel was his sister...

  • Ronald Stevenson
    Ronald Stevenson
    Ronald Stevenson is a British composer, pianist, and writer about music.-Biography:The son of a Scottish father and English mother, Stevenson studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music , studying composition with Richard Hall and piano with Iso Elinson, graduating with distinction...

  • Zygmunt Stojowski
    Zygmunt Stojowski
    Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski was a Polish pianist and composer.-Life:Born near the city of Kielce, Stojowski began his musical training with his mother, and with Polish composer Władysław Żeleński. In Kraków, as a seventeen-year-old student, he made his debut as a concert pianist...

  • Kathryn Stott
    Kathryn Stott
    Kathryn Stott is a British classical pianist who performs as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Her specialities include the English and French classical repertoire, contemporary classical music and the tango...

  • August Stradal
    August Stradal
    August Stradal was a Bohemian pianist and music teacher. A student of Anton Bruckner, he made solo piano arrangements of that composer's symphonies 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8. His pianistic credentials included studies with both Theodor Leschetizky and Franz Liszt...

  • Soulima Stravinsky
    Soulima Stravinsky
    Sviatoslav Soulima Stravinsky was a Swiss-American pianist, composer and musicologist of Russian and Ukrainian descent...


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  • Evelyn Suart
    Evelyn Suart
    Evelyn Suart, Lady Harcourt was a notable English pianist.She was born in 1881 in Sindapore, India, the daughter of Brigadier-General W. H. Suart, and she spent some of her early childhood there. She also lived for periods in Gibraltar and England. Her piano studies were with Storck in...

  • Yevgeny Sudbin
    Yevgeny Sudbin
    Yevgeny Sudbin is a Russian concert pianist. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. After his family emigrated to Berlin when he was age 10, he won several German piano competitions, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He was a pupil of Christopher Elton at...

  • Grete Sultan
    Grete Sultan
    Grete Sultan was a German-American pianist.Born in Berlin into a musical family, she studied piano from an early age with American pianist Richard Buhlig, and later with Leonid Kreutzer and Edwin Fischer...

  • Alexei Sultanov
    Alexei Sultanov
    Alexei Sultanov was a Russian-American classical pianist of Uzbek origin.His father was a cellist, his mother was a violinist, and his grandmother was a well-known Uzbek actress. At the age of 6, he began piano lessons in Tashkent with Tamara Popovich...

  • Sun Yingdi
    Yingdi Sun
    Chinese pianist Yingdi Sun 孙颖迪 won First Prize at the prestigious 7th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, which was held in Utrecht in 2005. By winning the prize he has embarked on a demanding two-year concert tour in the Netherlands and abroad...

  • Rose and Ottilie Sutro
    Rose and Ottilie Sutro
    Rose Sutro and Ottilie Sutro were American sisters who were notable as one of the first recognised duo-piano teams. It has been claimed they were the first such team, but Willi and Louis Thern preceded them by almost 30 years...

  • Alexander Sverjensky
    Alexander Sverjensky
    Alexander Borisovich Sverjensky was a Russian-born Australian pianist and teacher....

  • Yevgeny Svetlanov
  • Ruslan Sviridov
    Ruslan Sviridov
    Ruslan Valentinovich Sviridov is a Russian pianist.-Biography:In 1987-1991 studied at Tambov Musical College with Natalia Kolpakova...

  • David Syme
    David Syme
    David Syme was a Scottish-Australian newspaper proprietor of The Age and regarded as "the father of protection in Australia" who had immense influence in the Government of Victoria.-Early life and family:...

  • Roberto Szidon
    Roberto Szidon
    Roberto Szidon is a Brazilian classical pianist who has had an international performing and recording career, and has settled in Germany.He gave his first concert at age 9, in his home town of Porto Alegre...

  • Balázs Szokolay
    Balázs Szokolay
    Balázs Szokolay is a Hungarian pianist.His international concert career started in 1983, replacing Nikita Magaloff at a concert in Belgrade. Four years later he was appointed a professorship at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music...

  • Władysław Szpilman

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  • Gabriel Tacchino
    Gabriel Tacchino
    Gabriel Tacchino is one of the premier post-war French classical pianists; he also teaches piano.Tacchino was born in Cannes. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1947 to 1953, where his teachers included Jacques Février and Marguerite Long...

  • Yaara Tal
    Duo Tal & Groethuysen
    The Israeli pianist Yaara Tal and her German partner Andreas Groethuysen are a piano duo....

  • Magda Tagliaferro
    Magda Tagliaferro
    Magdalena Maria Yvonne Tagliaferro was a Brazilian-born pianist of French extraction. Born in Petropolis, Brazil, she studied under Antonin Marmontel and Alfred Cortot...

  • Mark Taimanov
    Mark Taimanov
    Mark Evgenievich Taimanov is a leading Soviet and Russian chess player and concert pianist.-Chess:He was awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1952 and played in the Candidates Tournament in Zurich in 1953, where he tied for eighth place. From 1946 to 1956, he was among the world's top...

  • Ani Takidze
    Ani Takidze
    Ani Takidze is a Georgian pianist.Her exceptional music talent was recognized early. She attended a Music school for gifted children in Tbilisi and later the Tbilisi State Conservatory.She graduated from Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, the master class diploma with Prof. Franz...

  • Alexander Tamir
    Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir
    Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir were Israeli duo pianists and teachers.Bracha Eden was born on 15 July 1928, in Jerusalem. Alexander Tamir was born as Alexander Wolkovsky on 2 April 1931, in Vilnius, Lithuania...

  • Alexandre Tansman
    Alexandre Tansman
    Alexandre Tansman was a Polish-born composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life...

  • Sergei Tarnowsky
  • Carl Tausig
    Carl Tausig
    Carl Tausig was a Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer.-Life:Tausig was born in Warsaw to Jewish parents and received his first piano lessons from his father, pianist and composer Aloys Tausig, a student of Sigismond Thalberg. His father introduced him to Franz Liszt in Weimar at the...

  • Simon Tedeschi
    Simon Tedeschi
    Simon Tedeschi is a Boston-based classical pianist from Australia.-Life and career:Simon Tedeschi was born in Sydney to Mark Tedeschi QC, the New South Wales Crown Prosecutor and a prominent photographer and Vivienne Tedeschi, who is the daughter of a Polish Holocaust survivor, Lucy Gershwin,...

  • Louis Teicher
    Louis Teicher
    Louis Milton Teicher was an American piano player, half of the duo Ferrante & Teicher.Teicher died of heart failure at his summer home. He was 83....

  • Gerardo Teissonniere
    Gerardo Teissonniere
    Gerardo Teissonnière is a Puerto Rican pianist and teacher.-Education:Gerardo Teissonnière studied at the Conservatory of Music in Puerto Rico with Jesús Maria Sanromá and at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Vitya Vronsky , both disciples of Artur Schnabel and Alfred Cortot, and at the Aspen...

  • Thomas Tellefsen
    Thomas Tellefsen
    Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen was a Norwegian pianist and composer.Thomas Tellefsen was born in Trondheim, Norway, where he studied with his father, the organist Johan Christian Tellefsen, and with Ole Andreas Lindeman. Thomas gave his first public concert in his home town at age 18...

  • Alfred Teltschik
    Alfred Teltschik
    Alfred Teltschik was an American duo pianist and teacher. He was born in Floresville, Texas to Frank and Lenora Teltschik.Alfred attended the Juilliard School of music, where he studied principally with Olga Samaroff...

  • Per Tengstrand
    Per Tengstrand
    Per Tengstrand is a Swedish pianist.In 1995 he attained the Long-Thibaud Competition's 4th prize. He subsequently was awarded the 1996 Geneva Competition's 2nd prize and won the 1997 Cleveland Competition. He has been internationally active as a concert pianist since.In 1999 he was prized from the...

  • Sigismond Thalberg
    Sigismond Thalberg
    Sigismond Thalberg was a composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.- Descent and family background :...

  • Tarja Turunen
    Tarja Turunen
    Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....

  • Károly Thern
    Károly Thern
    Károly Thern was a Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and arranger. He was among the second generation of composers who developed the language of Hungarian art music....

  • Louis Thern
    Willi and Louis Thern
    Vilmos Thern and Lajos Thern were Hungarian pianists and teachers. They were the sons of the composer and conductor Károly Thern....

  • Willi Thern
    Willi and Louis Thern
    Vilmos Thern and Lajos Thern were Hungarian pianists and teachers. They were the sons of the composer and conductor Károly Thern....

  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet
    Jean-Yves Thibaudet
    -Early life:Jean-Yves Thibaudet was born in Lyon, France, to non-professional musical parents. His father played the violin, and his mother, of German origin and a somewhat accomplished pianist herself, introduced the instrument to Jean-Yves....

  • Skylar Thomas
    Skylar Thomas
    Skylar Thomas is an American pianist from Sacramento, California.-Early life and education:Skylar began learning piano from her father at age of four. At the age of 7, she found that she was able to play many songs by ear. In 2002, Skylar began private training and her first classical performance...


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  • Ignace Tiegerman
  • Sergio Tiempo
    Sergio Tiempo
    Sergio Daniel Tiempo is a Venezuelan-Argentine classical pianist. He has studied under some of the best known pianists....

  • Vera Timanova
    Vera Timanova
    Vera Viktorovna Timanova was a Russian pianist.Vera Timanova was born into a well-to-do family in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, where she spent her childhood. She showed musical aptitude at an early age, and at age six began taking piano instruction from local teachers, with her first public...

  • James Tocco
    James Tocco
    James Tocco is an American concert pianist. He is the youngest of thirteen children born to Vincenzo and Rose Tocco, both Sicilian immigrants.-Early life:...

  • Václav Tomášek
    Václav Tomášek
    Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, was a Czech composer and music teacher.-Life:As a pianist, he was an autodidact, becoming one of the most important piano teachers of Prague for a century. Until 1824 he worked as a piano teacher in aristocratic families...

  • Alexander Toradze
    Alexander Toradze
    Alexander Toradze is a classical concert pianist, best known for his classical Russian repertoire, with career spanning over three decades...

  • Donald Tovey
  • Geoffrey Tozer
    Geoffrey Tozer
    Geoffrey Tozer was an Australian classical pianist and composer. As a child prodigy, he composed an opera at the age of eight, and became the youngest recipient of a Churchill Fellowship award at 13...

  • Max Trapp
    Max Trapp
    Hermann Emil Alfred Max Trapp was a German composer and teacher. A prestigious figure in the Berlin cultural scene during the 1930s, Trapp, amongst others in the Nazi influenced scene, was regularly invited to contribute to concert programs and competitions.Trapp was born in Berlin and attended...

  • Daniil Trifonov
    Daniil Trifonov
    -Biography:Trifonov is a top prize winner of several major international piano competitions, including the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...

  • Simon Trpčeski
    Simon Trpceski
    Simon Trpcheski , OMM , is a Macedonian classical pianist. In 2002, he received his degree in music from the University of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, where he studied with Professor Boris Romanov...

  • Valerie Tryon
    Valerie Tryon
    Valerie Tryon is a British-born classical pianist. Since 1971 she has resided in Canada, but continues to pursue an international performing and recording career, and spends a part of each year in her native Britain. Among her specialisms is the music of Franz Liszt, of which she has made a number...

  • David Tudor
    David Tudor
    David Eugene Tudor was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.- Biography :Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music. He gave the...

  • Jozef Turczynski
    Józef Turczynski
    Jozéf Turczyński was a Polish pianist, pedagogue and musicologist who exercised a powerful influence over the development of piano teaching and performance, especially in the works of Frédéric Chopin, during the first half of the 20th century...

  • Rosalyn Tureck
    Rosalyn Tureck
    Rosalyn Tureck was an American pianist and harpsichordist who was particularly associated with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...

  • Anderson Tyrer
    Anderson Tyrer
    Anderson Tyrer was an English concert pianist, active during the 1920s.Tyrer studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where he won a scholarship of four years from the County Council. He served in the Army in 1914 to 1918.He made his debut at a Promenade concert under Thomas Beecham in...


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  • Mitsuko Uchida
    Mitsuko Uchida
    , born 20 December 1948, is a Japanese naturalized British classical pianist.-Career:Born in Atami, a seaside town close to Tokyo, Japan, Uchida moved to Vienna, Austria, with her diplomat parents when she was twelve years old, after her father was named the Japanese ambassador to Austria...

  • Emilia Uggla
    Emilia Uggla
    Emilia Maria Sara Sofia Uggla , was a Swedish noble classical concert pianist and concert singer....

  • Alexander Uninsky
    Alexander Uninsky
    -Life and career:Alexander Uninsky was born in Kiev . He initially studied piano there in the conservatory which had been opened in 1913, and whose other graduates included Vladimir Horowitz and Alexander Brailowsky....

  • Rem Urasin
    Rem Urasin
    Rem Urasin is a Russian pianist.In 1992 he won the Chopin Competition in Moscow; he has performed internationally since. From 1994-99 he was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov ....

  • Roberto Urbay
    Roberto Urbay
    Roberto Urbay is a Cuban concert pianist and piano professor.- Biography :Roberto Urbay studied at Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana, Cuba where he was instructed by Margot Rojas Mendoza and Silvio Rodríguez Cárdenas. He was awarded a scholarship to study at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow...


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  • Vladimir Valjarević
    Vladimir Valjarevic
    Vladimir Valjarević , is a Bosnian/American pianist.Valjarević came to New York City on a scholarship from the Mannes College of Music, where he earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees as a recipient of the Marian Marcus Wahl Performance Award. His principal teachers were Pavlina Dokovska and...

  • John Vallier
    John Vallier
    John Vallier was an English classical pianist and composer. He was the son of the famous French bass Jean Vallier and the English pianist Adela Verne ....

  • Nick van Bloss
    Nick van Bloss
    Nick Bloss is a British classical pianist and author who has Tourette syndrome. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London....

  • Arie Vardi
    Arie Vardi
    Arie Vardi is an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue.He is currently teaching at the Buhmann-Mehta Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine...

  • Tamás Vásáry
    Tamás Vásáry
    Tamás Vásáry is a celebrated Hungarian concert pianist.- Biography and career :Vásáry made his debut at the age of 8, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D major, K.107 in the city of his birth, where he gave a solo recital the following year. He then began to concertize regularly as a child...

  • Ester Vela
    Duo Vela
    The Duo Vela is a musical duo consisting of sisters Eulàlia Vela López and Ester Vela López . The sisters are known for their classical piano performances and have recorded three albums.-Career:...

  • Eulalia Vela
    Duo Vela
    The Duo Vela is a musical duo consisting of sisters Eulàlia Vela López and Ester Vela López . The sisters are known for their classical piano performances and have recorded three albums.-Career:...

  • Giovanni Velluti
    Giovanni Velluti (pianist)
    Giovanni Velluti is an Italian pianist, pupil of Rodolfo Caporali and Aldo Mantia.He inherited from his teachers Giovanni Velluti (January 20, 1969) is an Italian pianist, pupil of Rodolfo Caporali and Aldo Mantia.He inherited from his teachers Giovanni Velluti (January 20, 1969) is an Italian...

  • Ilana Vered
    Ilana Vered
    -Biography:From age 13 to 15 she attended the Paris Conservatoire, which awarded her first prize in piano upon her graduation; among her teachers there were Vlado Perlemuter and Jeanne-Marie Darré. Vered then continued her music studies at the Juilliard School under Rosina Lhévinne...

  • Adela Verne
    Adela Verne
    Adela Verne was a notable English pianist and minor composer of German descent. She was considered one of the greatest woman pianists of her era, ranked alongside the male keyboard giants of the time. She toured with great success in many parts of the world.Adela Verne was born into a musical...

  • Mathilde Verne
    Mathilde Verne
    Mathilde Verne was an English pianist and teacher, of German descent.She was born Mathilde Wurm, in Southampton, England, the fourth of ten children, all of whom were musically gifted. She was initially a student of Franklin Taylor. She had the opportunity to play to Clara Schumann, who took her...

  • Matthijs Verschoor
    Matthijs Verschoor
    Matthijs Verschoor is a Dutch classical pianist.He studied at the conservatoires of Rotterdam and Amsterdam and continued his studies in Rome and London. Among his teachers are Bart Berman, Willem Brons and John Bingham....


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  • José Vianna da Motta
    José Vianna da Motta
    José Vianna da Motta was a distinguished Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt...

  • Vladimir Viardo
    Vladimir Viardo
    Vladimir Viardo, born in 1949 at Krasnia Polana in the Caucasus, USSR, is a Russian pianist.Viardo studied with Irina Naumova at the Gnessin State Musical College and later studied with Lev Naumov at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he remained as a student for six years. Naumov would...

  • Roger Vignoles
    Roger Vignoles
    Roger Vignoles is a British pianist and accompanist. He regularly performs with the world’s leading singers – including Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Hampson, Gitta-Maria Sjøberg, Sarah Walker, Susan Graham, Felicity Lott, Stephan Genz, Monica Groop, Wolfgang Holzmair,...

  • Ricardo Viñes
    Ricardo Viñes
    Ricardo Viñes was a Spanish pianist. He first publicly performed many important works by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Manuel de Falla, Déodat de Séverac and Isaac Albéniz. He was also the piano teacher of composer Francis Poulenc and pianist Léo-Pol Morin.He was born in Lleida,...

  • Eliso Virsaladze
    Eliso Virsaladze
    Eliso Virsaladze is a Georgian pianist.She was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. Her father Constantine Virsaladze was a prominent physician, so was her grandfather Spiridon Virsaladze. She received her first piano lessons at the age of 8 from her grandmother, Anastasia Virsaladze, a well-known music...

  • Stefan Vladar
    Stefan Vladar
    -Biography:In 1985 Vladar won Vienna's VII Ludwig van Beethoven piano competition. In addition to his concert career he's been the Grosses Orchester Graz principal conductor since 2002 and since 2008 principal conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.-References:...

  • Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

  • Aleksey Volodin
    Aleksey Volodin
    Alexei Volodin is a Russian pianist.He was born in St. Petersburg, and began taking piano lessons there at the age of nine. A year later he moved to Moscow, where he studied first with Irina Chaklina and later with Tatiana Zelikman at the Gnessin Music School...

  • Arcadi Volodos
    Arcadi Volodos
    Arcadi Volodos is a Russian pianist. His first name is sometimes transliterated Arcady or Arkady. Volodos is renowned both for his technical mastery of the instrument's virtuosic repertoire and for his notoriously technically difficult arrangements of...

  • Andrew von Oeyen
    Andrew von Oeyen
    -Education:He began piano lessons at age five in Los Angeles with Sara Banta and made his solo orchestral debut at age ten. At age 16, he made his debut with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic...

  • Vitya Vronsky
    Vronsky & Babin
    Vronsky & Babin were regarded by many as one of the foremost duo-piano teams of the twentieth century. Vitya Vronsky was born in Yevpatoria . Victor Babin was born in Moscow, Russia...


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  • Émile Waldteufel
    Émile Waldteufel
    Émile Waldteufel was a French composer of dance music.-Life:Émile Waldteufel was born in Strasbourg to a Jewish Alsatian family of musicians....

  • Ernest Walker
  • William Vincent Wallace
    William Vincent Wallace
    William Vincent Wallace was an Irish composer and musician.-Early life:Wallace was born at Colbeck Street, Waterford, Ireland. Both parents were Irish, his father, of County Mayo, was a regimental bandmaster....

  • Bruno Walter
    Bruno Walter
    Bruno Walter was a German-born conductor. He is considered one of the best known conductors of the 20th century. Walter was born in Berlin, but is known to have lived in several countries between 1933 and 1939, before finally settling in the United States in 1939...

  • Yuja Wang
    Yuja Wang
    Yuja Wang is a Chinese classical pianist. She was born in Beijing, began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.-Early life:...

  • Peter Warren
    Peter Warren
    Peter Warren may refer to:*Sir Peter Warren , British naval officer*Peter Warren , Canadian investigative journalist and radio host...

  • Andrzej Wasowski
    Andrzej Wasowski
    Andrzej Wasowski was a Polish classical pianist.-Life:Born in Lwow of an aristocratic family . His father's family owned estates in Podolia and sugar refineries and mining interests in Silesia...

  • Huw Watkins
    Huw Watkins
    Huw Watkins is a British composer and pianist. Born in South Wales, he studied piano and composition at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, where he received piano lessons from Peter Lawson...

  • André Watts
    André Watts
    André Watts is a classical pianist and professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University.-Life and early performances:...


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  • Beveridge Webster
    Beveridge Webster
    Beveridge Webster was an American pianist and educator.Beveridge Webster studied with his father, initially, and in 1921, at age 14, he began five years of study in Europe, first at the American Academy at Fontainebleau, then at the Paris Conservatory with Isidor Philipp and Nadia Boulanger...

  • Nancy Weir
    Nancy Weir
    Nancy Mary Weir was an Australian pianist and teacher.-Biography:Nancy was born in Kew, Melbourne on 13 July 1915. Her father was a publican who ran a small hotel in Lockhart, near Wagga Wagga, and Nancy grew up "behind the bar" as she said. She studied piano with Ada Corder in Melbourne...

  • Alan Weiss
  • Orion Weiss
    Orion Weiss
    Orion Weiss is an American classical pianist.-Education:Weiss began his musical studies at the in Iowa City, Iowa. When his family moved to Lyndhurst, Ohio, he continued his piano studies with Carol Lubetkin, and later with pianist and composer . He attended the Interlochen Arts Camp between 1991...

  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg
    -Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

  • Ueli Wiget
    Ueli Wiget
    Ueli Wiget is a Swiss pianist, harpsichordist and harpist.He was prized at the 1985 Sydney Competition. Since 1986 Wiget is a member of the Ensemble Modern, a chair he combines with an international concert career.-References:...

  • Earl Wild
    Earl Wild
    Royland Earl Wild was an American pianist widely recognized as a leading virtuoso of his generation. Harold C. Schonberg called him a "super-virtuoso in the Horowitz class". He was known as well for his transcriptions of classical music and jazz...

  • Gerard Willems
    Gerard Willems
    Gerard Willems is a Dutch-born Australian classical pianist and teacher. He was the first Dutch and first Australian pianist to record the complete series of 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos and the Diabelli Variations by Ludwig van Beethoven, and is the only pianist to do so using a...

  • Llŷr Williams
    Llyr Williams
    Llŷr Williams is a Welsh pianist.-Childhood:Llŷr Williams was born in 1976 in the village of Pentre Bychan in Wrexham, Wales....

  • Michael Glenn Williams
    Michael Glenn Williams
    Michael Glenn Williams is an American composer, pianist and technologist.-Biography:Williams' earliest years were spent in New York, beginning trumpet studies and composing at 8 years old. At 12 he was programming DEC PDP 8 minicomputers...

  • Malcolm Williamson
    Malcolm Williamson
    Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO , CBE was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death.-Biography:...

  • Paul Wittgenstein
    Paul Wittgenstein
    Paul Wittgenstein was an Austrian-born concert pianist, who became known for his ability to play with just his left hand, after he lost his right arm during the First World War. He devised novel techniques, including pedal and hand-movement combinations, that allowed him to play chords previously...

  • Daniel Wnukowski
    Daniel Wnukowski
    Daniel Wnukowski is a Polish Canadian pianist from Windsor, Ontario, Canada.- Early years and training:At age 3 and a half, he showed strong fascination for a grand piano made completely out of glass in a music store and begged his parents to begin taking piano lessons.He studied piano at the...


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  • Joseph Wölfl
    Joseph Wölfl
    Joseph Wölfl was an Austrian pianist and composer.-Biography:Wölfl was born at Salzburg, where he studied music under Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn....

  • Ernst Victor Wolff
    Ernst Victor Wolff
    Ernst Victor Wolff was a German-born concert pianist and harpsichordist who maintained a career not only as a soloist but also as a respected accompanist. Singers with whom he performed included Dorothy Maynor and Alexander Kipnis; he accompanied the latter in the Hugo Wolf Society recording...

  • Joseph Wölfl
    Joseph Wölfl
    Joseph Wölfl was an Austrian pianist and composer.-Biography:Wölfl was born at Salzburg, where he studied music under Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn....

  • Roger Woodward
    Roger Woodward
    Roger Woodward AC OBE is an Australian classical concert pianist.-Biography:Roger Woodward was born in 1942 in Chatswood, a suburb of Sydney, the youngest of four children to Gladys and Frank Woodward...

  • Bolesław Woytowicz
  • Roger Wright
    Roger Wright
    Roger Robinson Wright III is an American classical concert pianist. He is also a Scrabble player who won the United States National Scrabble Championship in 2004.-Early life and musical training:...

  • Friedrich Wührer
    Friedrich Wührer
    Friedrich Wührer was an Austrian-German pianist and piano pedagogue. He was a close associate and advocate of composer Franz Schmidt, whose music he edited and, in the case of the works for left hand alone, revised for performance with two hands; he was also a champion of the Second Viennese...


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  • Oxana Yablonskaya
    Oxana Yablonskaya
    Oxana Yablonskaya is a Russian pianist who has had an active international performance career since the early 1960s. She began her career in the USSR and, although winning several important competitions in the West, was denied by the Soviet government to accept any performance engagements outside...

  • Anna Yesipova
    Anna Yesipova
    Anna Yesipova was a prominent Russian pianist. Her name is cited variously as Anna Esipova; Anna or Annette Essipova; Anna, Annette or Annetta Essipoff; Annette von Essipow; Anna Jessipowa.Yesipova was one of Teodor Leszetycki's most brilliant pupils...

  • Ramzi Yassa
    Ramzi Yassa
    Ramzi Yassa is an Egyptian pianist. An outstanding member of the first batch of musicians trained at the Cairo Conservatory, Yassa graduated in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, taking part in the 1974 Tchaikovsky competition, where he earned an Honorary certificate. He then launched a concert...

  • Christine Yoshikawa
    Christine Yoshikawa
    Christine Mari Yoshikawa is a classical pianist.-Biography:Born into a musical family to a Canadian father and a Japanese mother , Christine Yoshikawa began her musical studies at an early age. She began her piano studies at the age of two with her mother, and the violin at the age of six...

  • Jeanne You
    Jeanne You
    Jeanne You, also You Ji-yeoun, is a South Korean classical pianist.-Education and professional career:She began studying the piano at the age of five...

  • Avan Yu
    Avan Yu
    Avan Yu is a Canadian pianist.He won a number of prizes including Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, XVI Santander International Piano Competition and Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition....

  • Maria Yudina
    Maria Yudina
    Maria Veniaminovna Yudina was an influential Soviet pianist.Yudina was born to a Jewish family in Nevel, Russia. She studied at the Petrograd Conservatory under Anna Yesipova and Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev. She also briefly studied privately with Felix Blumenfeld. Her classmates included...


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  • Franciszek Zachara
    Franciszek Zachara
    Franciszek Zachara was a Polish-American pianist and composer who concertized extensively throughout Europe in the years leading up to 1928...

  • Yakov Zak
    Yakov Zak
    Yakov Izrailevich Zak , , Jiakov Israilevič Sak; Odessa, - Moscow, June 28, 1976) was a Soviet pianist and teacher of Jewish extraction.Born in Odessa, Zak studied piano at the Odessa Conservatory with Maria Starkhova, took classes on special harmony with Mykola Vilinsky, and later studied with...

  • Berenika Zakrzewski
    Berenika Zakrzewski
    Berenika , stage name Berenika, is an American concert pianist. She attended Professional Children's School in New York as well as the Juilliard School of Music. Upon finishing high school she went to Harvard University where she was the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship. She...

  • Evgeny Zarafiants
    Evgeny Zarafiants
    Evgeny Zarafiants is a pianist. He studied at the Glinka Conservatory in Gorky. Zarafiants later taught at the Conservatory in Nizhny Novgorod. His recordings include the preludes of Alexander Scriabin and the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti...

  • Carlo Zecchi
    Carlo Zecchi
    Carlo Zecchi was an Italian pianist, music teacher and conductor.Zecchi was born in Rome. He led pianistic courses in Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, and in Salzburg. Highly acclaimed performer of Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Debussy works, and of Romantic...

  • Dieter Zechlin
    Dieter Zechlin
    Dieter Zechlin is a German pianist. He was one of East Germany's most prominent pianists throughout the 1950-60s. In 1959 he received the Art Prize of the GDR and in 1961 the National Prize of the GDR....

  • Mark Zeltser
    Mark Zeltser
    Mark Zeltser is a Soviet-born American pianist.-Biography:Zeltser was born in Kishinev in 1947. His mother Bertha was a concert pianist and teacher. Her grandfather, Mark Pester, was a well-known Bessarabian violinist and conductor...

  • Igor Zhukov
    Igor Zhukov
    Igor Mikhailovich Zhukov is a Russian pianist, conductor and sound engineer.Zhukov was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1936 but his family moved to Moscow in the following year. Four years later, they were evacuated to Vyatka as a result of the Second World War...

  • Lilya Zilberstein
    Lilya Zilberstein
    -Biography:Born in Moscow on April 19, 1965, and educated at the Gnessin State Musical College , she rose to prominence after winning the 1987 Concorso Busoni. This triumph opened up the Italian halls to her, and as soon as she graduated she embarked on a tour, debuting in the Maggio Musicale...

  • Krystian Zimerman
    Krystian Zimerman
    Krystian Zimerman is a Polish classical pianist who is widely regarded as one of the finest living pianists.-Biography:...

  • Tadeusz Żmudziński
    Tadeusz Żmudziński
    Tadeusz Żmudziński was a Polish pianist and educator.In 1946 Żmudziński graduated with highest honours from the University of Music in Katowice, where he studied under Prof. Władysława Markiewiczówna. The following year he took lessons from Imre Ungar, Walter Gieseking and Alfred Cortot...

  • Nikolai Zverev
    Nikolai Zverev
    Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Goldenweiser, and others.- Life :...

  • Wojciech Żywny
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