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Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev (Russian: Николай Серге́евич Зве́рев, sometimes transliterated Nikolai Zveref; 25 March [O.S. 13 March] 1833 – 12 October [O.S. 30 September] 1893) was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Goldenweiser, and others.
Josef Lhévinne [a] [1] (13 December 1874 – 2 December 1944) [2] was a Russian pianist and piano teacher. Lhévinne wrote a short book in 1924 that is considered a classic: Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing. Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was lay-VEEN. [3]
Born in Irkutsk, Soviet Union, Matsuev is the only child of two musicians, his mother being a piano teacher and his father a pianist and composer. He demonstrated a musical ear at age 3, when he reproduced on the piano at home a melody that he heard on television. [1] His father subsequently became his first piano teacher.
In 2000, Kobrin took third at the XIV International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. [4] In 2003, Kobrin won the top prize at Japan's Hamamatsu competition. [5] In June 2005, he won The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Among his prizes included a $20,000 cash award, a compact disc recording, concert tours, professional management ...
Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus (Polish: Henryk (Henry) Neuhaus, Russian: Ге́нрих Густа́вович Нейга́уз, Genrikh Gustavovič Nejgauz, 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1888 – 10 October 1964) was a Russian [1] [need quotation to verify] pianist and teacher. Part of a musical dynasty, he grew up in a Polish-speaking household. [2]
Elisey Mysin (Russian: Елисей Мысин; born 28 Oct, 2010 in Stavropol) is a Russian pianist, composer, child prodigy and actor. [1] He studies at the Central Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory in the class of Professor Natalia Trull and Daniil Tsvetkov. [2]
Pavel Kushnir was born in Tambov on 19 September 1984, [1] in a Jewish family. [2] His father, Mikhail Borisovich Kushnir (1945–2020), was a musician and a teacher at a children's music school, who developed his own method of teaching music to children, widely used in music schools in Russia. [1]
Born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) to a Jewish family, Levit began playing piano at the age of three. He received piano lessons from his mother Elena Levit, a piano teacher, répétiteur and grand-disciple of Heinrich Neuhaus. [3] As a child, he had his first successes on the concert stage in his hometown. His family moved to Hannover in 1995.