Biography

Stoupel was a top prizewinner at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1986, and has performed as soloist with many of the leading orchestras of the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

The Berlin Philharmonic, German: , formerly Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester , is an orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. In 2006, a group of ten European media outlets voted the Berlin Philharmonic number three on a list of "top ten European Orchestras", after the Vienna Philharmonic and the...

, the Gewandhausorchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, in German Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks is the internationally renowned orchestra of the Bayerischer Rundfunk , based in Munich, Germany. It is one of the three principal orchestras in the city of Munich, along with the Munich Philharmonic...

, Munich Symphony and the Russian State Orchestra. He has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Christian Thielemann, Michail Jurowski, Leopold Hager, Marek Janowski, Steven Sloane and Günther Neuhold. His extensive discography includes a critically acclaimed debut CD, released in 1998 on the RPC label, featuring piano music of Shostakovich. Other recordings include the complete works for piano solo of Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...

 on the auris subtilis label and a soon to be released recording of the complete Piano Sonatas of Scriabin. His recording of the complete works for Viola and Piano by Henri Vieuxtemps with violist Thomas Selditz was awarded the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik", the highest German award for a CD-recording, in 2003.

As a chamber musician, Mr. Stoupel returns every year to the New York Philharmonic

New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States. It is one of the American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five"...

’s chamber music series at Merkin and Avery Fischer Halls. He collaborates frequently with outstanding opera singers such as baritone Wolfgang Brendel, mezzo-soprano Elena Zaremba and bass Evgeny Nesterenko and performs regularly with violinists Judith Ingolfsson

Judith Ingolfsson

-Biography:Already at the age of five, Ingolfsson appeared in a performance on Icelandic TV, and she made her solo orchestral debut in Germany at the age of eight....

 and Mark Peskanov, with the cellist Peter Bruns and with the 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....

 String Quartet.

Mr. Stoupel participates in many major festivals including the Berliner Festwochen, the Helsinki Festival and the Bargemusic Festival in New York. In the Piano en Valois Festival, he played the entire cycle of Scriabin’s sonatas in a single performance by memory.

Vladimir Stoupel began studying the piano at age three with his mother, Rimma Bobritskaia. He made his concerto debut at age 12, playing Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. He later studied piano with Evgeny Malinin and conducting with Gennady Rozhdestvensky at the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

, and was a pupil of the renowned Russian pianist Lazar Berman for almost five years. He currently lives in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany.