Vladimir Feltsman
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Vladimir Feltsman is a Russia
n American
classical pianist.
Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky, Moscow, and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Conservatories and went on to win the Grand Prix at the Marguerite Long International Piano Competition
in Paris.
In 1979, because of his growing discontent with the official Soviet ideology and rigid governmental control of the arts, Feltsman applied for an exit visa from the Soviet Union. In response, he was immediately banned from performing in public. After eight years of struggle and virtual artistic exile, he was finally granted permission to leave the Soviet Union.
Upon his arrival in the United States in 1987, Vladimir Feltsman was warmly greeted at the White House
, where he performed his very first concert in North America. That same year his debut at Carnegie Hall
established him as a major pianist on the American scene.
Feltsman teaches at the Mannes College The New School for Music and the State University of New York New Paltz, where he is the founder and Artistic Director of the International Festival-Institute Piano Summer. Feltsman, who became a U.S. citizen in 1995, lives in upstate New York.
Vladimir Feltsman often performs on the fortepiano; he has notably performed all of the Mozart's piano sonatas on a replica of a Walter fortepiano, as well as Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Mozart's Concerto K595, No. 27.
His discography includes six albums of clavier works of J.S. Bach, recordings of Beethoven's last five piano sonatas, solo piano works of Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Messiaen, and Silvestrof, as well as concerti by Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev.
His father is famous Russian composer
Oscar Feltsman
, known in the Soviet Union
for popular songs and musical comedies.
Russia
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n American
United States
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classical pianist.
Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky, Moscow, and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Conservatories and went on to win the Grand Prix at the Marguerite Long International Piano Competition
Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition
The Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition is an international classical music competition for pianists and violinists that has operated in France since 1943. It was created by the pianist Marguerite Long and the violinist Jacques Thibaud...
in Paris.
In 1979, because of his growing discontent with the official Soviet ideology and rigid governmental control of the arts, Feltsman applied for an exit visa from the Soviet Union. In response, he was immediately banned from performing in public. After eight years of struggle and virtual artistic exile, he was finally granted permission to leave the Soviet Union.
Upon his arrival in the United States in 1987, Vladimir Feltsman was warmly greeted at the White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
, where he performed his very first concert in North America. That same year his debut at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
established him as a major pianist on the American scene.
Feltsman teaches at the Mannes College The New School for Music and the State University of New York New Paltz, where he is the founder and Artistic Director of the International Festival-Institute Piano Summer. Feltsman, who became a U.S. citizen in 1995, lives in upstate New York.
Vladimir Feltsman often performs on the fortepiano; he has notably performed all of the Mozart's piano sonatas on a replica of a Walter fortepiano, as well as Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Mozart's Concerto K595, No. 27.
His discography includes six albums of clavier works of J.S. Bach, recordings of Beethoven's last five piano sonatas, solo piano works of Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Messiaen, and Silvestrof, as well as concerti by Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev.
His father is famous Russian composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
Oscar Feltsman
Oscar Feltsman
Oscar Borisovich Feltsman is a Soviet/Russian composer, father of Vladimir Feltsman.- Biography :Son of Boris Osipovich Feltsman an orthopedic surgeon also played the piano professionally, Feltsman had musical training from the age of five; learning the violin as a pupil of Pyotr Stolyarsky and...
, known in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
for popular songs and musical comedies.