Classical pianists (recorded)
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This is a list of pianist
s of whom recordings survive who play or played classical music. Since the number of people who have played the piano is probably in the millions, most of whom are not notable, the list is confined to those who have left some recorded legacy.
For a more inclusive list not limited to recorded pianists, see also List of classical pianists (solo pianists) and List of classical piano duos (performers) (piano duos, trios, etc.).
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:...
s of whom recordings survive who play or played classical music. Since the number of people who have played the piano is probably in the millions, most of whom are not notable, the list is confined to those who have left some recorded legacy.
For a more inclusive list not limited to recorded pianists, see also List of classical pianists (solo pianists) and List of classical piano duos (performers) (piano duos, trios, etc.).
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- Jacques AbramJacques AbramJacques 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...
- Dag Achatz
- Joaquín AchúcarroJoaquín AchúcarroJoaquín Achúcarro is a Basque Spanish classical pianist.- Biography and career :Achúcarro was born in Bilbao, Spain, in the difficult years of the Spanish post-war period. He began piano lessons at the Bilbao Conservatory and, in 1956, at the age of 13, made his concerto debut in Bilbao playing a...
- Adolovni AcostaAdolovni AcostaAdolovni 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:...
- Amy LeeAmy LeeAmy Lynn Hartzler , best known as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist. She is co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence. She cites influences ranging from classical musicians such as Mozart to modern artists Björk, Tori Amos, Danny Elfman and...
- Julie Adam
- Alice Ader
- Daniel AdniDaniel AdniDaniel 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 AeschbacherAdrian AeschbacherAdrian 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 AfanassievValery 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 AgostiGuido AgostiGuido 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...
- Soojin AhnSoojin AhnSoojin Ahn is a Korean American classical pianist. She started playing the piano at age three in her native South Korea and moved to the U.S. at age 10....
- Pierre-Laurent AimardPierre-Laurent AimardPierre-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 AitkenWebster AitkenWebster 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-TamarinaNelly Akopian-TamarinaNelly 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...
- Mayen Akpan
- Giuseppe AlbaneseGiuseppe 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 AlbénizIsaac AlbénizIsaac 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...
- Eugen d'AlbertEugen d'AlbertEugen 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...
- Cyrus Albertson
- Dimitri AlexeevDimitri 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...
- Anya Alexeyev
- Victor AllerVictor AllerVictor 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 AlpenheimIlse 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 AlvanisLouis Demetrius AlvanisLouis 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...
- Donna AmatoDonna AmatoDonna Amato is an American pianist. She teaches at University of Pittsburgh.-Life:Amato's early piano studies included renowned teacher and virtuoso, Ozan Marsh...
- Pascal Amoyel
- Géza AndaGéza AndaGéza 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....
- Diane Andersen
- Piotr AnderszewskiPiotr AnderszewskiPiotr 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 AndsnesLeif Ove AndsnesLeif 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 AngelichNicholas AngelichNicholas 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 AnievasAgustin AnievasAgustin Anievas is an American pianist, specializing in the works of Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff....
- Eteri AndjaparidzeEteri AndjaparidzeEteri 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 AnsorgeConrad AnsorgeConrad 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...
- Helge Antoni
- Igor Aptekarev
- Bernard Arbus
- Anton ArenskyAnton ArenskyAnton 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 ArgerichMartha ArgerichMartha Argerich is an Argentine pianist.-Early life:Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three...
- Yvonne ArnaudYvonne ArnaudYvonne 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...
- Racha Arodaky
- Claudio ArrauClaudio ArrauClaudio 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...
- Arta Articane
- Lydia ArtymiwLydia ArtymiwLydia 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...
- Stefan AskenaseStefan AskenaseStefan 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...
- Vladimir AshkenazyVladimir AshkenazyVladimir 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...
- Tor Espen Aspaas
- Alberto Gimenez Attenelle
- Winifred Atwell
- Lera AuerbachLera AuerbachLera 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...
- Hakon Austbo
- Myriam AvalosMyriam AvalosMyriam 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...
- Katja Avdeeva
- Yulianna AvdeevaYulianna AvdeevaYulianna Avdeeva is a Russian concert pianist.Beginning her studies at the age of five, she studied at the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow, and graduated from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. After her graduation, she became assistant to her teacher, Konstantin Scherbakov. Since 2008...
- Emanuel AxEmanuel AxEmanuel 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:...
- Ozgur Aydin
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- Sergei BabayanSergei BabayanSergei 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 BabinStanley 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 BabinVronsky & BabinVronsky & 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...
- Gina BachauerGina BachauerGina Bachauer , was a Greek classical pianist who toured extensively in the United States and Europe....
- Mihaly Bacher
- Wilhelm BackhausWilhelm BackhausWilhelm 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...
- Paul Badura-SkodaPaul Badura-SkodaPaul 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...
- Jang Eun Bae
- Alexander Bakhchiev
- Vladimir Bakk
- Ryszard BakstRyszard BakstRyszard 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...
- Dalton BaldwinDalton BaldwinDalton 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:*...
- Ellen Ballon
- Ernő BaloghErno BaloghErnő 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:...
- Dagmar Baloghova
- Arthur BalsamArthur BalsamArtur Balsam was a Polish-born American classical pianist and pedagogue.-Biography:...
- Volker Banfield
- In-Ju Bang
- Joseph BanowetzJoseph BanowetzJoseph Banowetz December 5, 1936, is an American-born pianist, pedagogue, author, and editor, currently teaching at the University of North Texas...
- Laszlo Baranjay
- Pierre Barbizet
- Willy Bardas
- Daniel BarenboimDaniel BarenboimDaniel 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....
- Aline Isabelle van Barentzen
- Simon BarereSimon BarereSimon 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:...
- Trevor Barnard
- Nadine Barrett
- Max Barros
- David Bar-IllanDavid Bar-IllanDavid 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...
- Rami Bar-Niv
- Hans Barth
- Heinrich Barth
- Ethel Bartlett
- Béla BartókBéla BartókBéla 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...
- Sando Ivo Bartoli
- Dimitri Bashkirov
- Elena BashkirovaElena BashkirovaElena Dmitrievna Bashkirova is a Russian-born pianist and musical director.She was born in Moscow, the daughter of pianist and teacher Dimitri Bashkirov...
- David Bates
- Harold BauerHarold BauerHarold 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 BaumgartnerPaul BaumgartnerPaul 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...
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Alessio BaxAlessio BaxAlessio Bax is an Italian classical pianist. Bax was born in 1977 in Bari, Italy, and graduated from the Bari conservatory at the age of 14. He studied at Southern Methodist University near Dallas, Texas, where he worked as faculty member of the university's Meadows School of the Arts following his...
- Emanuel Bay
- Mark BebbingtonMark BebbingtonMark Bebbington is a British concert pianist. He is a notable advocate of British music.-References:...
- Betty Humby Beecham (Lady Beecham)Betty Humby BeechamBetty Humby Beecham, Lady Beecham was a British pianist, who married the English conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham in February 1943. She was 29 years his junior....
- Jozef De BeenhouwerJozef De BeenhouwerJozef 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...
- Jeanne BehrendJeanne BehrendJeanne Behrend was an American pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer.-Life:Jeanne Behrend was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Curtis Institute in 1934, where she studied piano with Josef Hofmann and composition with Rosario Scalero.After completing her education, she...
- Yelena Bekman-ShcherbinaYelena Bekman-ShcherbinaYelena Alexandrovna Bekman-Shcherbina was a Russian pianist, composer and teacher.-Biography:Born Yelena Kamentseva, she was adopted by her mother's sister after the death of her mother. In gratitude, she took her adoptive mother's name, Shcherbina...
- Eleonora Bekova
- Pieter-Jan Belder
- Giovanni Bellucci
- Nelly Ben-Or (Clynes)Nelly Ben-OrNelly 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...
- Arturo Benedetti MichelangeliArturo Benedetti MichelangeliArturo 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...
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- Sean BennettSean BennettWilliam Sean Bennett is a former professional American and Canadian football running back. He was drafted by the New York Giants of the National Football League in the fourth round of the 1999 NFL Draft...
- Andre Benoist
- Prisca Benoit
- Patricia Benkman-Marsh
- Boris BerezovskyBoris 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 BerkofskyMartin BerkofskyMartin 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 BermanBart BermanBart Berman is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music....
- Boris BermanBoris BermanBoris 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...
- Daniel Berman
- Lazar BermanLazar BermanLazar 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....
- Yara Bernette
- Leonard BernsteinLeonard BernsteinLeonard 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...
- Michel BéroffMichel Béroff-Biography:Béroff was born at Épinal, and trained at the Nancy Conservatory, winning the 1st prize in 1962 and the prize of excellence in 1963. He completed his studies at the Paris Conservatory with Yvonne Loriod, winning the 1st prize in 1966. In 1967 he made his Paris debut and won 1st prize in...
- Beatrice Berthold
- George Bertram
- Stephen BeusStephen BeusStephen 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...
- Sondra Bianca
- Fabio BidiniFabio BidiniFabio 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:***...
- Teofil Bikis
- Malcolm BilsonMalcolm BilsonMalcolm 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...
- Malcolm Binns
- İdil BiretIdil Biretİdil Biret is a Turkish concert pianist, renowned for her interpretations of the Romantic repertoire.-Education:...
- Tessa BirnieTessa BirnieTessa 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...
- Sari BiroSari BiroSari Biro was a Hungarian pianist."I believe that a performer must be a clear channel for the composer's message and not allow his or her own personality to interfere with the composer's intentions... A performer should extend, not absorb." Sari Biro was born in Budapest in Hungary...
- Hans BischoffHans BischoffHans Bischoff was a German entomologist from Berlin.He was Kustos or curator of Hymenoptera at Museum für Naturkunde from 1921 until 1955.-Selected works:...
- Stephen Bishop (see Kovacevich)
- William BlackWilliam 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...
- Easley BlackwoodEasley BlackwoodEasley Blackwood may refer to:*Easley Blackwood, Sr. , invented the Blackwood convention used in bidding in contract bridge*Easley Blackwood, Jr. , his son, professor of music, concert pianist, and composer...
- Rafał Blechacz
- Boris Bloch
- Michel BlockMichel BlockMichel Block was a renowned pianist and winner of the 1962 Leventritt Competition. Block studied at the Juilliard School. He later taught at the Indiana University School of Music.-References:...
- Fannie Bloomfield ZeislerFannie Bloomfield ZeislerFannie 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...
- Daniel Blumenthal
- Felicja BlumentalFelicja BlumentalFelicja 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...
- Rimma Bobritskaya
- Erwin Bodky
- Mary Louise BoehmMary Louise BoehmMary 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 BogányiGergely BogányiComing 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 :...
- Moissaye BoguslawskiMoissaye BoguslawskiMoissaye Boguslawski was an American pianist, composer, editor and teacher. Sometimes known as Bogie, he was born in Chicago to Russian immigrants with significant musical background. Despite the family's poverty, Boguslawski began piano lessons at age 4 and began playing in public at weddings at...
- Jorge BoletJorge BoletJorge 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 BollaniStefano BollaniStefano 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...
- Jacqueline Bonneau
- Véronique Bonnecaze
- C.H.H. Booth
- Luiza BoracLuiza Borac-Biography:Born in Romania, Luiza Borac studied at the Enescu Music School for gifted children and the Music Academy in Bucharest, as well as at the Academy of Music and Drama in Hanover, graduating both with highest degrees...
- Michael Boriskin
- Peter Born
- Coenraad V. Bos
- Helen Boschi
- Oleg Boshniakovich
- Yury Boukoff
- Nadia BoulangerNadia BoulangerNadia 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...
- Una Mabel Bourne
- Hendrik BoumanHendrik BoumanHendrik "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 :...
- Roger Boutry
- Andreas BoydeAndreas 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 BoynetEmma BoynetEmma Boynet was a French pianist.Emma Boynet studied with Isidor Philipp at the Paris Conservatoire, and remained closely associated with Philipp until his death...
- Evgeni BozhanovEvgeni BozhanovEvgeni Bozhanov is a Bulgarian pianist who trained with Evgeny Zhelyazkov at the National School of Arts "Prof. Vesselin Stoyanov" in Rousse...
- Johannes BrahmsJohannes BrahmsJohannes 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...
- Sodi Braide
- Alexander BrailowskyAlexander BrailowskyAlexander 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:...
- Frank Braley
- Evelyne Brancart
- Natan BrandNatan BrandNatan 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...
- Ronald BrautigamRonald BrautigamRonald 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 BrendelAlfred BrendelAlfred Brendel KBE is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia and a resident of the United Kingdom. He is also a poet and author.-Biography:...
- Rudolf Maria Breithaupt
- Vittorio Bresciani
- Emil Breslaur
- Kim Brewer
- Miriam Brickman
- Veronique Briel
- Loredana Brigandi
- Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward 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 BronfmanYefim BronfmanYefim "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...
- The 5 BrownsThe 5 BrownsThe 5 Browns are a classical piano musical group consisting of five siblings. Their repertoire includes mostly popular classical tunes, such as George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.-Background:In...
- DeondraThe 5 BrownsThe 5 Browns are a classical piano musical group consisting of five siblings. Their repertoire includes mostly popular classical tunes, such as George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.-Background:In...
- DesiraeThe 5 BrownsThe 5 Browns are a classical piano musical group consisting of five siblings. Their repertoire includes mostly popular classical tunes, such as George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.-Background:In...
- GregoryThe 5 BrownsThe 5 Browns are a classical piano musical group consisting of five siblings. Their repertoire includes mostly popular classical tunes, such as George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.-Background:In...
- MelodyThe 5 BrownsThe 5 Browns are a classical piano musical group consisting of five siblings. Their repertoire includes mostly popular classical tunes, such as George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.-Background:In...
- RyanThe 5 BrownsThe 5 Browns are a classical piano musical group consisting of five siblings. Their repertoire includes mostly popular classical tunes, such as George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.-Background:In...
- Deondra
- Ian BrownIan BrownIan 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...
- Angela Brownridge
- Felipe Browne
- John BrowningJohn 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:...
- Bruce Brubaker (pianist)
- Lyubov Bruk
- Leonid Brumberg
- Carlo Bruno
- Yuri Bryushkov
- Rudolf BuchbinderRudolf BuchbinderRudolf 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...
- Lloyd Buck
- Gail Buckingham
- Sara Davis BuechnerSara Davis BuechnerSara 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 BuhligRichard BuhligRichard 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...
- Josef BulvaJosef BulvaJosef 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...
- Agnelle Bundervoët
- Stanislav BuninStanislav BuninStanislav 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 ....
- Ferruccio BusoniFerruccio BusoniFerruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...
- Catalina Butcaru
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- Davide Cabassi
- Sarah CahillSarah 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...
- Matthew Cameron
- Michele CampanellaMichele CampanellaMichele 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 CaninoBruno CaninoBruno 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...
- Roberto Cappello
- Boris CepedaBoris CepedaBoris Cepeda is a German-Ecuadorian Pianist and Diplomat.- Biography :Boris Cepeda got his first piano lessons at four...
- Francesco Caramielo
- Ines Carillo
- John CarmichaelJohn 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 CarnevaleRoberto CarnevaleRoberto 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 CarreñoTeresa CarreñoMaría 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...
(piano rolls only ; see discussion page) - Gaby CasadesusGaby CasadesusGaby 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 CasadesusJean CasadesusJean 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 CasadesusRobert CasadesusRobert 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 CascioliGianluca CascioliGianluca 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...
- Philippe Cassard
- Leonard Cassini
- Ricardo CastroRicardo CastroRicardo 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...
- Jitka Cechova
- Joop Celis
- Céliny Chailley-Richez
- Philip Challis
- Hae-won Chang
- François Chaplin
- Cécile ChaminadeCécile ChaminadeCécile 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...
- Hae-won Chang
- Jeffrey Chappell
- Abram ChasinsAbram ChasinsAbram Chasins was an American composer, pianist, piano teacher, lecturer, musicologist, music broadcaster, radio executive and author....
- Chen Jiyang
- Chen Pi-HsienChen Pi-hsienChen Pi-hsien is a well-known Taiwanese classical pianist. She has received honors at several international piano competitions and was praised as the "Chinese Miracle" by European media. She teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and lives in Germany at present.-Biography:Chen Pi-hsien was...
- Sa ChenSa ChenSa Chen is a Chinese classical music pianist. She won first prize in the 1994 China International Piano Competition and fourth place in the 2000 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition and a prize in the Leeds International Piano Competition...
- Alton Chung Ming ChanAlton Chung Ming ChanAlton Chung Ming Chan 陳 忠 明 Chinese-American-Canadian pianist, pedagogue, choral and orchestral conductor, author, editor, video director and producer.- Biography :Dr...
- Shura CherkasskyShura CherkasskyShura 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...
- Jan Cherniavsky
- Gian Paolo ChitiGian Paolo ChitiGian 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...
- Daniel Chorzempa
- Winifred ChristieWinifred ChristieWinifred Christie was a British pianist and composer best known as an advocate of the Moór-Duplex piano.-The Moór-Duplex piano:...
- Chung Myung-Whun
- Marcel CiampiMarcel CiampiMarcel 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 CianiDino CianiDino 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 CiccoliniAldo CiccoliniAldo 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...
- Dana Ciocarlie
- Tamara Anna CislowskaTamara Anna CislowskaTamara 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...
- John Clegg
- Caroline Clemmow
- Van CliburnVan CliburnHarvey 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 ClidatFrance ClidatFrance 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....
- Julian CochranJulian Cochranthumb|200px|Julian Cochran in 1998Julian Cochran is an English-born Australian composer.Cochran's earlier works show stylistic influences from Impressionist music and his later works are more noticeably influenced by Classical music and folk music of Eastern Europe...
- Gesualdo Coggi
- Arnaldo CohenArnaldo 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 CohenHarriet CohenHarriet 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...
- Patrick Cohen
- Annette Cole
- Maggie Cole
- Maurice ColeMaurice Cole (pianist)Maurice Cole , was an English pianist, teacher and adjudicator who studied privately and at the Guildhall School of Music with Arthur De Greef.Maurice Cole was born in London, England...
- Naida ColeNaida ColeNaida 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...
- Lucile Collette
- Catherine CollardCatherine CollardCatherine Collard was a French classical pianist.She entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 14, where she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and Germaine Mounier. She was awarded the first prize in piano in 1964, and the first prize in chamber music en 1966...
- Jean-Philippe CollardJean-Philippe CollardJean-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...
- Finghin Collins
- Graziella ConcasGraziella ConcasGraziella 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...
- John Constable
- Mirian Conti
- John ContigugliaRichard and John ContigugliaRichard and John Contiguglia are American classical duo pianists with a worldwide reputation, who consistently attract superlatives from critics....
- Richard ContigugliaRichard and John ContigugliaRichard and John Contiguglia are American classical duo pianists with a worldwide reputation, who consistently attract superlatives from critics....
- Jean Carrington Cook
- Stephen CoombsStephen CoombsStephen 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:...
- Jane Coop
- Gary CooperGary 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 CooperImogen CooperImogen 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...
- Joseph Cooper
- Suzanne Cooper
- George CopelandGeorge CopelandGeorge Copeland was an American classical pianist known primarily for his championship of the French composer Claude Debussy in the early 20th century and his interpretations of modern Spanish piano works.-Career:...
- Aaron CoplandAaron CoplandAaron 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"...
- Michael Cordovana
- Chick CoreaChick CoreaArmando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
- Alfred CortotAlfred CortotAlfred 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...
- Raie da Costa
- Romola CostantinoRomola CostantinoRomola Helen Louise Costantino OBE was a noted Australian pianist, accompanist and teacher, who also worked as a music, film and theatre critic....
- Henry CowellHenry CowellHenry Cowell was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:...
- Evelyne Crochet
- Patrick CrommelynckDuo CrommelynckDuo 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 CroneTan CroneTan Crone was a noted Dutch classical pianist...
- Jill CrosslandJill CrosslandJill 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...
- Paul Crossley
- Kyla Crowcroft
- Lamar CrowsonLamar CrowsonJohn Lamar Crowson was an American concert pianist and a chamber musician....
- Adlan CruzAdlan CruzAdlan 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....
- Alba Ventura Cruz
- Clifford CurzonClifford CurzonSir Clifford Michael Curzon, CBE was an English pianist.-Early life:Clifford Michael Siegenberg was born in London to Michael and Constance Mary Siegenberg...
- Kristian Cvetkovic
- Halina Czerny-StefańskaHalina Czerny-StefanskaHalina 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...
- Georges CziffraGeorges CziffraGeorges 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...
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- Jörg Ewald Dähler
- Michel Dalberto
- Massimiliano Damerini
- Paul Dan
- Dang Thai SonDang Thai SonĐặng Thái Sơn is a Vietnamese pianist, winner at the Tenth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.-Musical career:...
- Jeanne-Marie DarréJeanne-Marie DarréJeanne-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 DaviesFanny DaviesFanny 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...
- Eugen d'AlbertEugen d'AlbertEugen 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...
- Bernard d'Ascoli
- Bella DavidovichBella DavidovichBella 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 DavisIvan DavisIvan 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...
- Frederick Dawson
- Thierry de Brunhoff
- Claude DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-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 DeferneSylviane DeferneSylviane 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...
- Robert DeGaetano http://www.degaetano.com
- Cor de GrootCor de GrootCor 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...
- Andre de Groote
- Steven DeGrooteSteven DeGrooteSteven 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...
- Florence Delaage
- Jörg DemusJörg DemusJörg 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...
- Lucette Descaves
- Luc Devos
- Alicia de LarrochaAlicia de LarrochaAlicia 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...
- Eduardo DelgadoEduardo DelgadoEduardo 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...
- Aquiles Delle VigneAquiles Delle VigneAquiles Delle Vigne , a pupil of Claudio Arrau, Eduardo del Pueyo and György Cziffra, is a concert pianist and a teacher from Argentina.-Early life:...
- Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabri
- Vladimir de PachmannVladimir de PachmannVladimir 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:...
- Auguste de Radwan
- Eduaro del Pueyo
- Nikolai DemidenkoNikolai DemidenkoNikolai 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...
- Jeremy DenkJeremy DenkJeremy 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...
- Claire Desert
- Helmut Deutsch
- Vasso Devetsi
- Marta Deyanova
- Anthony di BonaventuraAnthony di BonaventuraAnthony di Bonaventura is the Professor of Music at Boston University's College of Fine Arts.Anthony di Bonaventura began piano studies at three years old and gave the first professional concert at four years old. Then he won a scholarship to New York's Music School Settlement at six. At thirteen,...
- Misha DichterMisha DichterMisha 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 DiémerLouis DiémerLouis-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...
- Andrei Diev
- Shani DilukaShani DilukaShani Diluka is a Monegasque classical pianist. Ms Diluka has been giving concerts since an early age, appearing on the concert platform with the pianist Hélène Grimaud at the age of 12, and playing her first orchestral concert with L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo at the age of 16...
- Charis Dimaras
- Liuben Dimitrov
- Simone DinnersteinSimone DinnersteinSimone 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:...
- Pyotr Dmitriev
- Maria Donska
- Paul DoguereauPaul DoguereauPaul 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 DohnányiErno DohnányiErnő 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....
- Joanna DomanskaJoanna DomanskaJoanna Domańska is a Polish classical pianist and music teacher from Gliwice.-Biography:Domańska started her piano studies at the Academy of Music in Kraków with professor Jan Hoffman, and she graduated with distinction from the Academy of Music in Katowice, in the piano class of professor Andrzej...
- Victoria Dondysh
- Stefan Doniga
- Peter Donohoe
- Sergei DorenskySergei DorenskySergei Dorensky is a Russian pianist.He was trained under Grigory Ginsburg at the Moscow Conservatory. Dorensky was awarded a Gold Medal at the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students and the 1957 Rio de Janeiro Competition's 2nd Prize, which allowed him to perform through Western Europe and...
- Ania Dorfmann
- Marylene DosseMarylene DosseMarylene 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...
- Alexandre Dossin
- Barry DouglasBarry DouglasBarry 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...
- Ginette Doyen
- Ivan Drenikov
- Adolf Drescher
- Danny Driver
- Zbigniew DrzewieckiZbigniew DrzewieckiZbigniew 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...
- Evelyne Dubourg
- Florence Kirsch Du BrulFlorence Kirsch Du BrulFlorence Kirsch Du Brul was a concert pianist and master piano teacher and member of Chicago society in the mid-20th century....
- François-René DuchableFrançois-René DuchâbleFrançois-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...
- Jérôme Ducros
- François Dumont
- Thérèse Dussaut
- Michael Dussek
- Duo Tal & GroethuysenDuo Tal & GroethuysenThe Israeli pianist Yaara Tal and her German partner Andreas Groethuysen are a piano duo....
- Monique Duphil
- Ursula Dütschler
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- Akiko EbiAkiko Ebi-Biography:Akiko Ebi was born in Osaka. She studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, and won the piano prize of the 41st Music Competition of Japan. Her international career began with her winning second prize in the 1975 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris. She continued her...
- Severin von EckardsteinSeverin von EckardsteinSeverin 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....
- Nicolas EconomouNicolas EconomouNicolas Economou was a Cypriot composer and pianist born in Nicosia, Cyprus.A precociously gifted pianist, Economou came to international attention at the 1969 Tchaikovsky Competition when he was aged 16. After studying at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow he eventually moved via Düsseldorf...
- Sergei Edelmann
- Bracha EdenBracha Eden and Alexander TamirBracha 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...
- Luba Edlina
- Leah Effenbach
- Richard EgarrRichard EgarrRichard 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 EgorovPavel EgorovPavel 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 EgorovYouri EgorovYouri 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 ....
- Monika Egri
- Billy Eidi
- Hans Eijsackers
- Severin EisenbergerSeverin EisenbergerSeverin 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...
- Jan EkierJan EkierJan Ekier is a Polish pianist and composer widely known for his authoritative edition of Chopin's music for the Polish National Edition. He was born in Kraków, Poland...
- Abdel Rahman El BachaAbdel Rahman El BachaAbdel 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:...
- Edson EliasEdson EliasEdson Elias was a Brazilian pianist.He centered his career in France since he was appointed professor of the Paris' Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in 1983 while remaining attached to his homeland's musical life, his 1987 integral of Maurice Ravel's piano œuvre both in São Paulo and Rio de...
- Emre ElivarEmre ElivarEmre Elivar is a Turkish concert pianist.Emre Elivar began his studies and graduated from State Conservatoire in Ankara...
- France Marguerite Ellegaard
- Mehveş Emeç
- Michael EndresMichael EndresMichael 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 EnfloPer EnfloPer 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 EngelKarl EngelKarl 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...
- Brigitte Engerer
- Philippe EntremontPhilippe EntremontPhilippe 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....
- Sandrine Erdely-SayoSandrine Erdely-SayoSandrine 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 :...
- Victor Eresko
- Daniel Ericourt
- Christoph EschenbachChristoph EschenbachChristoph 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...
- Virginia Eskin
- Lía Cimaglia Espinosa
- Morton EstrinMorton EstrinMorton 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-MoszkowskaRóza Etkin-MoszkowskaRóża 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...
- Bernaldo Evangelista
- Lindley EvansLindley EvansLindley 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...
- Jacqueline Eymar
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- Mikhaïl FaermanMikhaïl FaermanMikhail 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....
- George Falkenstein
- Edith FarnadiEdith FarnadiEdith 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 FarrellRichard FarrellRichard 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...
- Ronald Farren-Price
- Gerald Fauth
- Laure Favre-Kahn
- Tatiana Fedkina
- José FeghaliJosé FeghaliJosé 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 :...
- Alan Feinberg
- Samuil FeinbergSamuil FeinbergSamuil 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 FelfeliKarishmeh FelfeliKarishmeh Felfeli is a radio broadcaster, pianist, vocalist and creator of , a critically acclaimed classical music and arts radio program for Dublin City FM...
- Adam Fellegi
- Till FellnerTill 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 FeltsmanVladimir FeltsmanVladimir 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...
- Gordon Fergus-Thompson
- Dmitry Feofanov
- György Ferenczy
- Erik Ferrand-N'Kaoua
- Arthur FerranteFerrante & TeicherFerrante & Teicher were a duo of American piano players, known for their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes.-Career:...
- Jacques FévrierJacques FévrierJacques 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 FialkowskaJanina FialkowskaJanina 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...
- Elena Filonova
- Margaret Fingerhut
- Sergio FiorentinoSergio FiorentinoSergio Fiorentino was a 20th-century Italian classical pianist whose sporadic performing career spanned five decades.-Music career:...
- Rudolf FirkušnýRudolf 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...
- Philip Edward FisherPhilip Edward FisherPhilip 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...
- Annie FischerAnnie FischerAnnie 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 FischerEdwin FischerEdwin 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 FisherNorma 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...
- Leon FleisherLeon FleisherLeon 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...
- Yakov Flier
- Eileen Flissler
- Ingrid FliterIngrid FliterIngrid 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....
- Anthony Fogg
- Andor FöldesAndor FöldesAndor Földes was an internationally renowned Hungarian pianist born in Budapest, who later took American citizenship.-Career:...
- Bengt ForsbergBengt ForsbergBengt 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...
- Sebastian Forster
- Lukas Foss
- Grant Foster
- Sidney Foster
- Philip Fowke
- Fou Ts'ongFou Ts'ongFou 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...
- Malcolm FragerMalcolm 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 FranceschHomero FranceschHomero 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...
- Vera Francheschi
- Samson FrançoisSamson FrançoisSamson 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 FrankClaude FrankClaude 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...
- Nils Franke
- Peter FranklPeter FranklPeter Frankl is a Hungarian-born British pianist. He mainly performs music from the Classical period , the Romantic period and the early Modern period...
- Justus FrantzJustus FrantzJustus Frantz is a German pianist, conductor, and television personality.- Life :...
- David FrayDavid FrayDavid 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 FreireNelson FreireNelson 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,...
- Gérard Frémy
- Etelka FreundEtelka FreundEtelka 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 FriedbergCarl FriedbergCarl 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 FriedheimArthur FriedheimArthur 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 FriedmanIgnaz FriedmanIgnaz 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...
- Benjamin Frith
- Peter Froundjian
- Orazio Frugoni
- Giacomo Fuga
- Riko Fukuda
- David FungDavid Fung- Professional career :In 2002, David Fung won the Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award, after four rounds of competition which culminated in his performance of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Sydney Symphony during the concerto finals at the Sydney Opera...
- Sara Fuxon
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- Gabor Gabos
- Ossip GabrilowitschOssip GabrilowitschOssip Gabrilowitsch was a Russian-born American pianist, conductor and composer.- Biography :...
- Irwin GageIrwin GageIrwin Gage is an American Collaborative Pianist.- Biography :Gage studied piano, musicology and literature at the University of Michigan and Yale, and later with Erik Werba at the Vienna Music Academy...
- Neil GalanterNeil GalanterNeil 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...
- Martin Galling
- Rudolph GanzRudolph GanzRudolph Ganz was a Swiss pianist, conductor and composer. He claimed direct descent from Charlemagne.-Biography:...
- María Garzón
- Mark GasserMark 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...
- James Gath
- Ivana GavrićIvana GavrićIvana 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 GavrilovAndrei GavrilovAndrei 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...
- Bruno-Leonardo Gelber
- Kemal GekićKemal GekicKemal 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...
- Aglika Genova
- Valentin GheorghiuValentin GheorghiuValentin Gheorghiu is a Romanian classical pianist and composer.-Biography:Gheorghiu was born in Galaţi, Romania in 1928. He was first a pupil of Constanţa Erbiceanu at the Bucharest Academy of Music and then of Lazare Lévy at the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris, France...
- Lorenzo Ghielmi
- Alexander GhindinAlexander GhindinAlexander Ghindin is a Russian pianist. He won the fourth prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1994 and was the youngest laureate ever...
- Jack GibbonsJack GibbonsJack 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...
- Paolo Giacometti
- Reine Gianoli
- Walter GiesekingWalter GiesekingWalter 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...
- Jonathan Gilad
- Emil GilelsEmil GilelsEmil 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:...
- Pavel Gililov
- Rhondda Gillespie
- Boris GiltburgBoris GiltburgBoris 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 GimpelJakob GimpelJakob Gimpel was a Polish concert pianist and educator.Jakob Gimpel was born in Lvov...
- Havard Gimse
- Stephane GinsburghStephane GinsburghStephane Ginsburgh is a Belgian pianist.- Studies:Ginsburgh was born in Brussels. After graduating from the Royal Music Conservatories of Mons and Liège in piano and chamber music, Ginsburgh studied with Paul Badura-Skoda, Vitaly Margulis and particularly Claude Helffer in Paris for contemporary...
- Grigory GinzburgGrigory GinzburgGrigory 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 GislingeKatrine GislingeKatrine 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 GlazerFrank GlazerFrank 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...
- Elena Glazunov (Gavrilova)
- Bernd Glemser
- Leopold GodowskyLeopold GodowskyLeopold 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...
- Alexander Goldenweiser
- Dieter Goldmann
- Robert GoldsandRobert GoldsandRobert 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...
- Harris Goldsmith
- Gila Goldstein
- Misha Goldstein
- Anthony Goldstone
- Olga Gollej
- Alexis GolovinAlexis GolovinAlexis 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 GolubDavid GolubDavid 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...
- Leonie Gombrich
- Richard GoodeRichard GoodeRichard 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 GoodmanIsador GoodmanIsador 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 GordonJudith 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...
- Vera GornostayevaVera GornostayevaVera Gornostayeva is a Russian pianist and pedagogue.Emeritus Artist of the Russian Federation, Gornostaeva is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where her teacher was the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus....
- Sascha GorodnitzkiSascha GorodnitzkiSascha Gorodnitzki .Born in Kiev, he emigrated as an infant to Brooklyn, NY, where his parents founded a college of music. He was a child prodigy; his teachers included his mother, then Percy Goetschius, Rubin Goldmark, William J. Henderson and Krehbiel at the Institute of Musical Art. At...
- Daniel GortlerDaniel GortlerDaniel 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 GothoniRalf GothoniRalf 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...
- Christopher Gould
- Glenn GouldGlenn GouldGlenn 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 GourariAnna GourariAnna 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...
- Enrique GrafEnrique GrafEnrique 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 GraffmanGary GraffmanGary 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 GraingerPercy GraingerGeorge 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...
- Carlo Grante
- Arthur De GreefArthur De GreefArthur De Greef was a Belgian pianist and composer.Born in Louvain, he won first prize in a local music composition when he was only 11, and subsequently enrolled at the Brussels Conservatoire...
- Kyla Greenbaum
- Arthur Greene
- David GreilsammerDavid Greilsammer- Biography :David Greilsammer was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He started his music studies at the age of six at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem. After completing his military service in Israel he entered The Juilliard School in New York as a student of Yoheved Kaplinsky. Following studies in piano...
- Antony GreyAntony GreyAntony Grey was a leading English lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights activist. He lived with his partner, Eric Thompson, for 50 years after first meeting in 1960...
- Edvard GriegEdvard GriegEdvard 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...
- Jeffrey GriceJeffrey GriceJeffrey 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...
- Dan GrigoreDan GrigoreDan Grigore is a Romanian classical pianist and composer.-Biography:Grigore was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1943. He was first a pupil of Mihail Jora and then of Florica Musicescu, who had both been teachers to Dinu Lipatti. He also studied in Saint Petersburg with Tatiana Kravcenko and in...
- Hélène GrimaudHélène GrimaudHélène Grimaud is a French pianist.-Biography:Grimaud was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. Although her autobiography Variations Sauvages suggests a...
- Daniel Grimwood
- Maria GrinbergMaria GrinbergMaria Grinberg , was a Ukrainian pianist and teacher....
- Bonnie GrittonBonnie GrittonBonnie 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 GroethuysenDuo Tal & GroethuysenThe Israeli pianist Yaara Tal and her German partner Andreas Groethuysen are a piano duo....
- Markus Grohn
- Robert Groslot
- Benjamin GrosvenorBenjamin GrosvenorBenjamin 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...
- Rosi Grunschlag
- Toni Grunschlag
- Friedrich GuldaFriedrich GuldaFriedrich 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 GullerYoura GullerYoura 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...
- Michael Gurt
- Horacio GutiérrezHoracio GutiérrezHoracio 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...
- François-Frédéric Guy
- Adam GyorgyAdam GyorgyÁdám György, , was born in 1982 in Hungary. He is a professional pianist, and his music career started at age four. While he was studying under Katalin Halmagyi, he was accepted to the Bela Bartok Conservatory of Budapest in 1994. Gyorgy won the National Youth Piano Competition in 1998, and...
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- Monique HaasMonique HaasMonique 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 HaasWerner 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...
- Michael HabermannMichael HabermannMichael 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...
- Ingrid HaeblerIngrid HaeblerIngrid 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 HaefligerAndreas HaefligerAndreas 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 HabermannMichael HabermannMichael 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 HahnReynaldo HahnReynaldo 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....
- Mark HambourgMark HambourgMark 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...
- Michal Hambourg
- Leonid HambroLeonid HambroLeonid 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 HamelinMarc-André HamelinMarc-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 HammondAmbre HammondAmbre 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...
- António Hamrol
- Derek Han
- Yoonjung HanYoonjung HanYoonjung Han is an award-winning female South Korean classical pianist.-Education:Han attended the Juilliard School Pre-College Division in New York City from 2001-2003. Then from 2003–2007, she attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia studying with Eleanor Sokoloff, receiving her...
- Soo Han
- Sonya Hanke
- Conrad Hansen
- Menachem Har-Zahav
- Adam HarasiewiczAdam HarasiewiczAdam Harasiewicz is a Polish classical concert pianist.He won the first prize at the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1955....
- Wolf HardenWolf HardenWolf Harden is a German classical pianist.- Biography and career :Wolf Harden was born in Hamburg, and started learning music with his father, a musicologist, and his mother, a pianist. He studied at the Detmold Music Academy, and began performing with the Trio Fontenay, which he founded in 1980...
- Jean Harvey
- Michael Kieran HarveyMichael Kieran HarveyMichael 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...
- Bernadette Harvey-Balkus
- Clara HaskilClara HaskilClara Haskil was a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire....
- Joyce HattoJoyce HattoJoyce 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 HautzigWalter 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...
- Endre HegedűsEndre HegedusEndre Hegedűs is an internationally-known piano soloist. He graduated from Franz Liszt Academy of Music University as a pianist, both performing artist and teacher in 1980...
- Eric Heidsieck
- Inna HeifetzInna HeifetzInna 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...
- Eero Heinonen
- Jean-Francois Heisser
- Claude HelfferClaude HelfferClaude Helffer was a French pianist noted particularly for his advocacy of 20th-century music.-Biography:...
- David HelfgottDavid HelfgottDavid 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....
- Klaus Hellwig
- Gerard HengeveldGerard HengeveldGerard 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 HennigDennis HennigDennis 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...
- Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
- Daniel Herscovitch
- Myra HessMyra HessDame 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-BukowskaBarbara Hesse-BukowskaBarbara 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 HewittAngela HewittAngela 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 HillPeter 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...
- Robert HillRobert Hill (musician)Robert Stephen Hill is an American harpsichordist and fortepianist. Since 1990 he is "Professor of Historical Keyboard Instruments, Performance Practice and Chamber Music" at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany....
- Eric HimyEric 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...
- Christopher Hinterhuber
- Etsuko Hirose
- Thomas Hitzlberger
- Ian Hobson
- Josef Hofmann
- Margarita Höhenrieder
- Leonard Hokanson
- Lorin Hollander
- Rebecca Holt
- Heidrun Holtmann
- Ian Hominick
- Stanley Hoogland
- Vladimir HorowitzVladimir HorowitzVladimir 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 HoughStephen HoughStephen 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:...
- Michael HoustounMichael HoustounMichael Houstoun is a concert pianist from New Zealand.Born and educated in Timaru, Houstoun studied piano under Sister Mary Eulalie and Maurice Till in Dunedin and Christchurch...
- Alan HovhanessAlan HovhanessAlan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...
- Leslie HowardLeslie 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 HowardPhilip 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...
- William Howard
- Roy Howat
- Fei-Ping HsuFei-Ping Hsu- Content :Fei-Ping Hsu is a renowned Chinese American pianist who is known for his sensitive, brilliant, and poetic interpretations.Mr. Hsu was born on the island of Gulangyu in southeast China. As the youngest son of a Christian pastor, he grew up singing hymns while his mother played on an...
- Helen HuangHelen HuangHelen Huang, born October 1982 is a classical pianist and former musical prodigy. She began studying piano in 1987, performing and touring with major symphony orchestras while still a child.-Musical career:...
- Martin Hughes
- William Hughes
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Bruce HungerfordBruce HungerfordBruce Hungerford was an Australian pianist.Born in Korumburra, Victoria, Bruce Hungerford was originally named Leonard Hungerford...
- Frank HutchensFrank HutchensFrancis "Frank" Hutchens OBE was a pianist, music teacher and composer originally from New Zealand. He became a popular concert pianist in Australia, and was a founding member of the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, where he taught for fifty years.-Early life and education:Hutchens'...
- Pierre Huybregts
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- Aurora Ienei
- Stanislav IgolinskyStanislav IgolinskyStanislav Igolinsky is a Russian pianist.Stanislav Igolinsky Igolisky was born in 1953 in Saratov. In 1971 he finished Magnet musical school at the Leningrad Conservatory in class of Volf M.V. and in class of Volfenzon S.J....
- Valentina IgoshinaValentina IgoshinaValentina 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 IgumnovKonstantin IgumnovKonstantin 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 IlićIvan IlicIvan 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...
- Veronika Ilinskaya
- Jos van ImmerseelJos van ImmerseelJos 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...
- Eugen IndjicEugen IndjicEugen Indjic is a French-American pianist.-Biography:His father was an army general under King Peter II of Yugoslavia...
- Stanislav IoudenitchStanislav IoudenitchStanislav 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...
- Stefan Irmer
- Claude Isaacs
- Martin Isepp
- Yoram Ish-HurwitzYoram Ish-HurwitzYoram 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...
- Julius Isserlis
- Eugene IstominEugene IstominEugene 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 IturbiAmparo 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 IturbiJosé IturbiJosé 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 IvaldiChristian IvaldiChristian 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 IvanovitchAndrei IvanovitchAndrei 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...
- Shuku Iwasaki
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- Mack Jost
- Peter JablonskiPeter 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 JacobsPaul 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....
- Julian Jacobson
- Fabienne Jacquinot
- Ahmad JamalAhmad JamalAhmad Jamal is an innovative and influential American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. According to Stanley Crouch, Jamal is second in importance in the development of jazz after 1945 only to Charlie Parker...
- Michael Jamanis
- Zoran G. JančićZoran G. JancicZoran 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 JandóJeno JandóJenő 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 JanisByron JanisByron 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 JanopouloTasso JanopouloTasso 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 JansenRudolf JansenRudolf 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...
- Alexander Jenner
- Veronica Jochum
- Dirk Joeres
- Dina JoffeDina JoffeDina Yoffe is a Latvian pianist, Israeli citizen.She was awarded the IX Fryderyk Chopin and the VI Robert Schumann competitions' 2nd prizes before graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 1976...
- Grant JohannesenGrant JohannesenGrant 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 JohansenGunnar JohansenGunnar 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
- Roy Hamlin Johnson
- Mary Johnstone (see Moura Lympany)
- Henry JollesHenry JollesHenry 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:...
- Dorothy Jonas
- Maryla JonasMaryla JonasThe pianist Maryla Jonas , pronounced Marie-la, was born in Warsaw, Poland, debuting her pianistic talent at the age of 9...
- Martin Jones
- Richard JonesRichard 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...
- Warren Jones
- Bradley JosephBradley JosephBradley 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...
- Tedd Joselson
- Geneviève Joy-DutilleuxGenevieve JoyGeneviève 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 JoyceEileen JoyceEileen Alannah Joyce CMG was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years....
- Terence JuddTerence JuddTerence Judd was an outstanding 20th century English pianist who died young, poised on the verge of a musical career....
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- Ilona Kabos
- David Kadouch
- Jeffrey KahaneJeffrey KahaneJeffrey Alan Kahane is an American classical music pianist and conductor. He is music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.-Personal history:...
- Claude Kahn
- Percy KahnPercy KahnPercival 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...
- Jan Henryk Kaiser
- Joseph KalichsteinJoseph KalichsteinJoseph 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 KalishGilbert KalishGilbert 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...
- Lillian Kallir
- Elzbieta Kalvelage
- Valentina KameníkováValentina KameníkováValentina Kameníková nee Valentine Mikhaylovna Wax was a Czech pianist and Ukrainian music teacher, respectively. She came from a musical family...
- Valery Kamychov
- Yoko Kaneko
- Hans Kann
- William KapellWilliam KapellWilliam Kapell was an outstanding American pianist who was killed in the crash of a commercial airliner.-Biography:...
- Richard KappRichard KappRichard 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...
- Aydın Karlıbel
- Julian von Károlyi
- Natalia KarpNatalia KarpNatalia 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...
- Felicitas Karrer
- Leon Kartun
- Martin Kasík
- Yakov KasmanYakov KasmanYakov Kasman is a Russian classical pianist, professor of piano, and artist-in-residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham....
- Valery Kastelsky
- Julius KatchenJulius KatchenJulius Katchen was an American concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Johannes Brahms's solo piano compositions.-Early career:...
- Peter KatinPeter KatinPeter 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 KatsarisCyprien KatsarisCyprien 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 KatzAmir KatzAmir 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 KatzMartin KatzMartin 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 KatzMindru KatzMindru 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...
- Klaus Kaufmann
- Hisako Kawamura
- Mikhail Kazakevich
- Constance KeeneConstance KeeneConstance 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...
- Rudolf KehrerRudolf KehrerRudolf Kehrer is a much-recorded German classical pianist.Kehrer was born in Tiflis, Georgia to a family of piano-makers who had emigrated from Swabia, Germany....
- Alexander Kelberine
- Christoph Keller
- Roland Keller
- Freddy KempfFreddy KempfFreddy 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 KempffWilhelm KempffWilhelm 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...
- Kevin KennerKevin KennerKevin 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...
- Adam Kent
- Louis KentnerLouis KentnerLouis Kentner was a Hungarian, later British, pianist who excelled in the works of Chopin and Liszt, as well as the Hungarian repertoire....
- Olga KernOlga KernOlga 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...
- Raija Kerppo
- Muriel Kerr
- Sylvia Kersenbaum
- John Khouri
- Irina Khovanskaya
- Frederick B. KiddleFrederick B. KiddleFrederick 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 KilenyiEdward KilenyiEdward 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...
- Angela Jia KimAngela Jia KimAngela Jia Kim is an American classical pianist.Kim grew up in Ames, Iowa. Her mother was her first piano teacher, but she later studied at the Eastman School of Music. She received intensive coaching from Sergei Babayan, and her other teachers include Marc Durand, Lee Kum-Sing, Barry Snyder,...
- Benjamin KimBenjamin KimBenjamin Kim is a American pianist, who won the 55th ARD International Music Competition in Munich, September 2006 .Kim started studying the piano at age five with the famed Oregonian piano teacher, Dorothy Fahlman...
- Paul KimPaul Kim (pianist)Paul Kim is an American classical pianist.Kim began his musical training in southern California and continued his studies at The Juilliard School. At the Manhattan School of Music he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees, and went on to earn a Ph.D. from New York University...
- Izumi KimuraIzumi KimuraIzumi Kimura, born on the 10th of March 1973 is a Japanese pianist now living in Ireland.-Biography:Izumi Kimura was born in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan in 1973. She studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music with Akikio Teranishi, Akira Miyoshi and Kazuoki Fujii...
- Gary KirkpatrickGary KirkpatrickGary 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...
- Matthias Kirschnereit
- Evgeny KissinEvgeny KissinEvgeny 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...
- Anatole KitainAnatole 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...
- Alfred Kitchin
- Margaret KitchinMargaret KitchinMargaret Kitchin was a classical pianist, born in Switzerland but long resident in the United Kingdom. She was strongly associated with contemporary music and gave many premieres of works by composers such as Michael Tippett, Thea Musgrave, Priaulx Rainier and Peter Racine Fricker.-External...
- Christopher Kite
- Ivan KlanskyIvan KlánskýIvan Klánský is a Czech pianist.He was awarded 2nd prizes at the 1967 Concorso Busoni , the 1968 J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig and the 1976 Paloma O'Shea Competition. He has performed internationally since. In addition, he has recorded for Naxos Records, Supraphon and Praga .Klánský holds a...
- Dmitri Klebanov
- Hildegard Kleeb
- Elisabeth KleinElisabeth KleinElisabeth 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 KleinJacques KleinJacques 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...
- Beatriz Klien
- Walter KlienWalter KlienWalter 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...
- Susanna Klovsky
- Eva Knardahl
- Alexander KobrinAlexander KobrinAlexander 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 KochTobias KochTobias 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 KocsisZoltán KocsisZoltán 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...
- Mari KodamaMari kodamaMari Kodama is an international pianist. She was born in Osaka, Japan and raised in Paris. She is known for her musicality and articulate virtuosity, playing a wide repertoire, powerfully yet elegantly.-Education:...
- Alan KogosowskiAlan 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"...
- Yoshiko Kojima
- Raoul von Koczalski
- Lubka KolessaLubka KolessaLubka Kolessa was a classical pianist and professor of piano.- Education :...
- Tzvetan Konstantinov
- Alfons KontarskyAloys and Alfons KontarskyAloys 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 KontarskyAloys and Alfons KontarskyAloys 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...
- Evgeni Koroliov
- Evgeni Kostitsyn
- Yu KosugeYu Kosugeis a Japanese classical pianist.Kosuge was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1983. At the age of four, she entered Tokyo University of the Arts, having been selected under a programme aimed at providing specialist education to gifted children...
- Giorgio KouklGiorgio KouklGiorgio Koukl is a composer and pianist/harpsichordist who lives in Lugano, a town located in Ticino, an Italian-speaking canton of southern Switzerland....
- Stephen KovacevichStephen KovacevichStephen Kovacevich , who has also been known as Stephen Bishop and Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich is an American classical pianist and conductor.-Biography:...
- Vladimir KrainevVladimir KrainevVladimir Krainev was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR.-Biography:...
- Lili KrausLili KrausLili 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....
- Anna KravtchenkoAnna KravtchenkoAnna 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...
- Leonid KreutzerLeonid KreutzerLeonid Kreutzer was a classical pianist.Kreutzer was born to a family of German Jewish parents. He was a highly influential piano teacher at the Berlin Academy of Music , together with Egon Petri...
- Vladimir KrpanVladimir KrpanVladimir 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...
- Michael Krücker
- Antonín KubálekAntonin KubalekAntonín 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 KuertiAnton KuertiAnton 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...
- Valery Kuleshov
- Elena KuschnerovaElena 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...
- Taeko KuwataDuo CrommelynckDuo 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....
- Leonid KuzminLeonid KuzminLeonid 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 KvapilRadoslav KvapilRadoslav Kvapil is an internationally acclaimed Czech pianist and composer, considered by some to be the among the finest exponents of Czech piano music...
- Rena KyriakouRena KyriakouRena 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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- Thomas Labé
- Katia LabèqueKatia and Marielle LabèqueThe 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 LabèqueKatia and Marielle LabèqueThe 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...
- Monique de La BruchollerieMonique de La BruchollerieMonique de La Bruchollerie was a French classical concert pianist.- Career :La Bruchollerie was born in Paris. She came from a family of musicians, both François-Adrien Boieldieu and André Messager being among her ancestors...
- Marc Laforet
- Frank La ForgeFrank La ForgeFrank La Forge was an American pianist and composer and arranger of art songs.-Life and musical career:...
- Jean Laforge
- Juhani Lagerspetz
- Viktoria Lakissova
- Frederic Lamond
- Geoffrey LancasterGeoffrey LancasterGeoffrey 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 LandauerRawicz and LandauerRawicz 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 LandowskaWanda LandowskaWanda 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 LanePiers LanePiers 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 LangLang 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 LangerMilan LangerMilan 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...
- Maria de La Pau
- Andre Laplante
- Marián Lapšanský
- Adelina de LaraAdelina de LaraAdelina 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...
- Ruth LaredoRuth LaredoRuth 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...
- Dejan Lasic
- Ervin LászlóErvin LászlóErvin 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...
- Vanessa Latarche
- Jacob LateinerJacob LateinerJacob 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....
- Risto Lauriala
- Danielle Laval
- George-Emmanuel LazaridisGeorge-Emmanuel LazaridisGeorge-Emmanuel Lazaridis, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1978, is a Greek pianist and composer.-Biography:Lazaridis was born in Greece on 17 April 1978...
- Igor LazkoIgor LazkoIgor 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 :...
- Joanna Leach
- Angela Lear
- Karin Lechner
- Philip Ledger
- Colleen LeeColleen LeeColleen 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:...
- Lee Kum-SingLee Kum-SingLee Kum-Sing is a Chinese-Canadian classical pianist and piano pedagogue originally from Sumatra.- Biography :Lee Kum-Sing studied with Gerhard Puchelt and Hans Richter-Haaser in Berlin, with Julius Katchen and Magda Tagliaferro in Paris...
- Noël LeeNoël LeeNoël Lee is an American classical pianist and composer living in Paris, France.He studied music in Lafayette, Indiana, then attended Harvard University, studying with Walter Piston, Irving Fine, and Tillman Merritt and was also a student at the Longy School of Music in the early 1940s...
- Yvonne LefébureYvonne LefébureYvonne Lefébure was a French pianist.Born in Ermont, she studied with Alfred Cortot at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in piano and numerous other subjects. She soon appeared with the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux and the Orchestre des Concerts Colonne and in recital. She...
- Claire-Marie Le GuayClaire-Marie Le Guay-Early life:Le Guay began playing piano at age 4 and entered the Paris Conservatoire at age 14, where she studied with Jacques Rouvier, Pascal Devoyon and Bruno Rigutto...
- Kurt Leimer
- Christian LeottaChristian LeottaChristian 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....
http://www.christianleotta.com - Simon Lepper
- Tina Lerner
- Theodor Leschetizky
- Ray LevRay LevRay 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 VanEric Le VanEric Le Van is an American classical pianist particularly known for his interpretations of the music of Brahms and Scriabin...
- Oscar LevantOscar LevantOscar 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 LevinBeth LevinBeth 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 LevinRobert 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 LevinRobert D. LevinRobert D. Levin is a classical performer, musicologist, and composer, and is the Artistic Director of the Sarasota Music Festival.-Education:...
American pianist - Michaël Levinas
- James LevineJames LevineJames 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 LevitzkiMischa LevitzkiMischa 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 LevyDaniel 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 LevyErnst LevyErnst Levy was a Swiss musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor....
- Raymond LewenthalRaymond LewenthalRaymond 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...
- Paweł Lewiecki
- Michael Lewin
- Paul LewisPaul 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....
- Vladimir Leyetchkiss
- Hans Leygraf
- Josef LhévinneJosef LhévinneJosef 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 LhévinneRosina LhévinneRosina Bessie Lhévinne was a Russian American pianist and famed pedagogue....
- Ming-Qiang LiMing-Qiang LiLi 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 LiLi YundiLi Yundi is a Chinese classical pianist. He is also popularly known as Yundi and formerly Yundi Li. Born in Chongqing, Li is most well known for being the youngest pianist to win the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition, in 2000, at the age of 18...
(Yundi(sic)) - LiberaceLiberaceWladziu Valentino Liberace , best known simply as Liberace, was a famous American pianist and vocalist.In a career that spanned four decades of concerts, recordings, motion pictures, television and endorsements, Liberace became world-renowned...
- Francesco LibettaFrancesco LibettaFrancesco Libetta is an Italian pianist, composer and conductor.- Biography :Born in Galatone, South Italy, Francesco Libetta studied in Italy , France before basing himself in...
- Cecile LicadCecile LicadCecile 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:...
- Konstantin Lifschitz
- John LillJohn LillJohn 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...
- Dong-Hyek LimDong-Hyek LimDong-Hyek Lim is a South Korean classical pianist. Lim has previously studied with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Hannover and received the Samsung Culture Scholarship and the Ezoe Scholarship...
- Dong-Min LimDong-Min LimDong-Min Lim is a South Korean classical pianist. He and his brother Dong-Hyek Lim won third prize at the 2005 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Dong Min Lim studied at the Moscow Conservatory, at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and at Mannes College...
- Sondra Lim
- Arthur Moreira LimaArthur 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....
- Ingrid Lindgren
- Dinu LipattiDinu LipattiDinu 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 LisitsaValentina LisitsaValentina 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 LisneyJames LisneyJames 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 ListEugene ListEugene 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...
- Maria Littauer
- Andrew Litton
- David Lively
- Delphine Lizé
- Peter LockwoodPeter LockwoodPeter 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....
- Arthur LoesserArthur LoesserArthur Loesser was an American classical pianist and writer.Born into a musical family, Loesser received early training from his father until he began lessons with Sigismund Stojowski at the Institute of Musical Art, now called the Juilliard School.Loesser was the author of the books Humor in...
- Nicolai LomovNicolai LomovNicolai 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 LongKathleen LongKathleen 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 LongMarguerite LongMarguerite 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 LorangoThomas LorangoThomas 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 LordRoger LordRoger Lord is an internationally acclaimed performing classical pianist and Professor of Piano at l'Université de Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada....
- Wolfram LorenzenWolfram LorenzenWolfram 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 LoriodYvonne LoriodYvonne 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:...
- Robert Lortat
- Louis LortieLouis LortieLouis 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 LoveridgeIris LoveridgeIris 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...
- Jerome LowenthalJerome LowenthalJerome 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...
- Alexei LubimovAlexei LubimovAlexei Lubimov is a Russian pianist, fortepianist and harpsichordist.Alexei Lubimov studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Neuhaus and Lew Naumov...
- Pierre Luboshutz
- Andrea Lucchesini
- Ray Luck
- Nikolai LuganskyNikolai LuganskyNikolai 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 LuisadaJean-Marc LuisadaJean-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...
- Bengt-Åke Lundin
- Ioana Maria LupaşcuIoana Maria LupascuIoana 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...
- Benedetto Lupo
- Radu LupuRadu LupuRadu 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....
- Faina Lushtak
- Moura LympanyMoura LympanyDame 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 LynchCharles Lynch (pianist)Charles Edgeworth Cagney Lynch was an Irish pianist who premiered works by several important 20th century composers.-Background and early life:...
- Clive LythgoeClive LythgoeClive 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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- Marcel Maas
- Gisèle Magnan
- Jura MargulisJura MargulisJura Margulis is a Russian born, German raised, US based internationally acclaimed concert pianist, recording artist, and pedagogue.- Education :...
- Richard MarkhamRichard MarkhamRichard Markham was born in Grimsby, England, where he studied with Shirley Kemp and attended Wintringham Grammar School. By the age of 16 he had been awarded the LRAM and ARCM Performing Diplomas, become a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and won a scholarship to study...
- Alan Marks
- Jean Martin
- Steven Mayer
- Edwin McArthurEdwin McArthurEdwin 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 McCallumStephanie McCallumStephanie 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 McCawleyLeon McCawleyLeon 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...
- Helen McGraw
- Joanna MacGregorJoanna MacGregorJoanna 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...
- Murray McLachlan
- Richard MacMahon
- Geoffrey Douglas MadgeGeoffrey Douglas MadgeGeoffrey 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 MadžarAleksandar 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 MagaloffNikita MagaloffNikita 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...
- Gustav MahlerGustav MahlerGustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
(piano rolls only; see discussion page) - Petronel MalanPetronel MalanPetronel 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...
- Yevgeny MalininYevgeny MalininYevgeny Malinin was a Russian pianist.Malinin was born in Moscow. A disciple of Heinrich Neuhaus, he began his career while a student at the Moscow Conservatory...
- Witold Małcużyński
- Plamena MangovaPlamena MangovaPlamena Mangova is a Bulgarian pianist.At 18 she was awarded the XIV Paloma O'Shea Competition's 3rd prize. Nine years later she took part at the XVI Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, where she was second to Anna Vinnitskaya.She has been active as a concert pianist at an...
- Wolfgang Manz
- George MannGeorge MannGeorge Mann CBE, DSO, MC was an English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University, Middlesex and England.-Life and career:...
- Rosario MarcianoRosario MarcianoRosario 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 MarcusAdele MarcusAdele 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...
- Jeffrey Marcus
- Israela Margalit
- Jura Margulis
- Irén MarikIren MarikIren 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 MarshOzan MarshOzan Marsh was a pianist active in concert performances throughout the world as well as across the United States....
- Oleg MarshevOleg MarshevOleg 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...
- Jean Martin
- Laurent Martin
- Philip MartinPhilip 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 MartineauMalcolm MartineauMalcolm 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 MartinsJoão Carlos MartinsJoão 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....
- Rosana Maria Martins
- Draga MatkovicDraga MatkovicDraga Matkovic is a contemporary German classical pianist of Croatian origin.- Life :...
- Denis Matsuev
- Nari Matsuura
- Yuki MatsuzawaYuki MatsuzawaYuki Matsuzawa is a pianist who was born in 1960 in Tokyo, Japan.Ms Matsuzawa is a pupil of Akiko Iguchi and Hiroshi Tamura at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She subsequently studied with Vladimir Ashkenazy....
- Frantisek Maxian
- Steven Mayer
- Lincoln MayorgaLincoln MayorgaLincoln Mayorga is an American pianist, arranger, conductor and composer who has worked in rock and roll, pop, jazz and classical music.-Pop music in the 1950s and 60s:...
- Ryan MacEvoy McCullough
- Irina Mejoueva
- Nikolai MedtnerNikolai MedtnerNikolai 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...
- Lee Meier
- Frederic Meinders
- Alexander Melnikov
- Hephzibah MenuhinHephzibah MenuhinHephzibah 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 MenuhinYaltah MenuhinYaltah 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...
- Dominique Merlet
- Yolanda MeroYolanda MeroYolanda Mero was a Hungarian-American pianist, opera and theatre impresario, and philanthropist who supported destitute musicians.-Pianist:...
- Frank Merrick
- Victor MerzhanovVictor 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-WoodNoel Mewton-WoodNoel Mewton-Wood was an Australian-born concert pianist who achieved some fame during his short life.-Life and career:...
- Marcelle MeyerMarcelle MeyerMarcelle 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....
- Stefano MiceliStefano miceliStefano Miceli is an Italian classical pianist and conductor.He made his concert debut at the age of 11, then he moved to study to Naples at Royal Conservatory of Music "San Pietro a Majella" under the direction of international renowned Vincenzo Vitale's pupils and Roberto de Simone’s which led...
- Aleksander Michałowski
- Arturo Benedetti MichelangeliArturo Benedetti MichelangeliArturo 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 MihajlovićMiloš MihajlovicMiloš Mihajlović is a Serbian pianist and university professor.- Education :...
- Marian Mika
- Lali Mikava
- Charles Miles
- Marina Milić-Apostolović
- Nina Milkina
- Hamish MilneHamish MilneHamish 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...
- Vladimir MischoukVladimir MischoukVladimir Mischouk is a Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of Russia.The pianist enterred in 1975 at the Music School of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in the class of Valentina Kunde, and then studied from 1986 until 1991 with Tatiana Kravchenko at the Conservatory itself...
- Yoko MisumiYoko MisumiYoko Misumi is a Japanese classical pianist.Misumi was born in Kyoto, Japan to a musical family and started her piano lessons very early. At age 14 she received the Second Prize in the prestigious Kyoto Piano Competition...
- Marjorie Mitchell
- Evgeny Mogilevsky
- Benno MoiseiwitschBenno MoiseiwitschBenno 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...
- Phillip Moll
- Vadim Monastyrski
- Gabriela MonteroGabriela MonteroGabriela 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 MonteiroSergio MonteiroSergio 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...
- Gerald MooreGerald MooreGerald 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 MoravecIvan MoravecIvan Moravec is a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career, spanning nearly half a century, has gained him a worldwide following....
- Arthur Moreira-Lima
- Fernanda Morello
- Leszek Mozdzer
- Alberto Mozzati
- Eduard Mrazek
- Hanns Udo Müller
- Nicole Muller
- Ian MunroIan 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
- Roger MuraroRoger MuraroRoger Muraro is a French classical pianist.-Career:Roger Muraro was born in Lyons, France in 1959, to parents who came from the Venetia region of Northeast Italy. He grew up in a village in the Lyons region...
- Yuri Muravlev
- William MurdochWilliam MurdochWilliam 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 MustonenOlli MustonenOlli 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...
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- William Grant Naboré
- Leo Nadelmann
- Marina NadiradzeMarina NadiradzeMarina Nadiradze is a Georgian pianist.She studied at the State Conservatoire in Tbilisi. As a precocious nine year old she won the first of her international awards in Vilnius, Lithuania and since then has gone on to amass an impressive list of competition successes, including 2nd Prize in the...
- Jon NakamatsuJon NakamatsuJon 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 NasedkinAleksey NasedkinAleksey 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 NatYves NatYves 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...
- Lev NatochennyLev NatochennyLev Natochenny is a Russian-American classical pianist and professor of piano.Born in Moscow, Natochenny graduated from the Moscow "Tchaikovsky" Conservatoire, where he was taught by Lev Oborin...
- Eldar Nebolsin
- Anton NelAnton NelAnton 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...
- Genia Nemenoff
- Pascal NemirovskiPascal NemirovskiPascal 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....
- David Nettle
- Heinrich NeuhausHeinrich NeuhausHeinrich 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...
- Stanislav NeuhausStanislav NeuhausStanislav Genrichowitsch Neuhaus was a Russian classical pianist....
- Jean-Paul Neveu
- Anthony NewmanAnthony NewmanAnthony 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 NeyElly NeyElly Ney was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany....
- Reid N. NibleyReid N. NibleyRichard 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 NicolosiFrancesco 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 NiedzielskiStanislas NiedzielskiStanislas Niedzielski was a Polish pianist, noted for his playing of Chopin. His given name is also seen as Stanislaw or Stanislaus....
- Mitja NikischMitja NikischMitja 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 NikolayevaTatiana NikolayevaTatiana 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...
- Andrei Nikolsky
- Igor Nikonovich
- Barbara Nissmann
- Désiré N'Kaoua
- Einar Steen-Nokleberg
- Minoru NojimaMinoru Nojimais a Japanese classical pianist.Minoru Nojima was a child prodigy in Japan, won a major nationwide competition there as a teenager, studied with Lev Oborin in Moscow and then with Constance Keene and Abram Chasins in New York, and burst upon the international music scene as a second prize winner of...
- David Owen Norris
- Eunice NortonEunice NortonEunice 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...
- Guiomar NovaesGuiomar NovaesGuiomar Novaes was a Brazilian pianist noted for individuality of tone and phrasing, singing line, and a subtle and nuanced approach to her interpretations...
- Marie NovelloMarie NovelloMarie 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...
- Ekaterina Novitskaya
- Ruth NyeRuth NyeRuth Nye MBE, is a pianist and teacher of Australian origin.Ruth Nye, born Ruth Farren-Price, grew up in Australia. She was invited to New York to be a pupil of the Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau by Arrau himself after he heard her play in Australia...
- Ervin NyíregyháziErvin NyíregyháziErvin Nyíregyházi was a Hungarian-born American pianist.-Childhood and early career:...
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- Lev OborinLev OborinLev 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'ConorJohn O'ConorJohn 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...
- Noriko OgawaNoriko Ogawa (pianist)is a Japanese classical pianist.Born in Kawasaki, Ogawa studied at the Tokyo College of Music and the Juilliard School in New York , and later with Benjamin Kaplan. After coming second in a Japanese music competition in 1984, she gained third prize in the 1987 Leeds International Piano...
- John OgdonJohn OgdonJohn 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 OhlssonGarrick OhlssonGarrick 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...
- Ronan O'Hora
- Chitose Okashiro
- Anne Øland
- Walter Olbertz
- Max OldingMax Olding and Pamela PageMax Olding and Pamela Page are a distinguished Australian husband and wife team of duo-pianists. They have performed separately in recitals and as concerto soloists, chamber music performers and accompanists both nationally and internationally, but are best known as a piano duo.They met when they...
- Janusz OlejniczakJanusz OlejniczakJanusz 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...
- Gülsin OnayGülsin OnayGülsin Onay is a leading Turkish concert pianist.-Education:Born into a musical family, Gülsin Onay began to play the piano at the age of three. Her first teacher was her mother....
- Bart van OortBart van OortBart 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 OppensUrsula OppensUrsula 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 OppitzGerhard OppitzGerhard 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'RileyChristopher O'RileyChristopher 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....
- Miceal O'Rourke
- Lambert Orkis
- Nikolaj Orloff
- Leo OrnsteinLeo OrnsteinLeo Ornstein was a leading American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century...
- Rafael Orozco
- Cristina OrtizCristina Ortiz-Biography:Born in Bahia, Brazil, Cristina Ortiz began her studies in her home country before moving to France with Magda Tagliaferro. Soon after finishing her studies in Paris, she won the first prize of the third edition of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition...
- Steven OsborneSteven 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...
- Junko Otake
- Michel Oudar
- Cécile OussetCécile OussetCécile 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
- Arthur Ozolins
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- Ian PaceIan PaceIan Pace is a British pianist.Pace studied at Chetham's School of Music, The Queen's College, Oxford and the Juilliard School in New York. His main teacher was the Hungarian pianist György Sándor....
- Vladimir de PachmannVladimir de PachmannVladimir 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:...
- Ignace Paderewski
- Pamela PageMax Olding and Pamela PageMax Olding and Pamela Page are a distinguished Australian husband and wife team of duo-pianists. They have performed separately in recitals and as concerto soloists, chamber music performers and accompanists both nationally and internationally, but are best known as a piano duo.They met when they...
- Kun-Woo PaikKun-Woo PaikKun-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...
- Piotr PalecznyPiotr PalecznyPiotr Paleczny is a Polish classical pianist, winner of the 3rd prize of the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1970....
- Josef PáleníčekJosef PálenícekJosef Páleníček was a Czech piano virtuoso and composer.- Biography :...
- Alexander Paley
- Claude Paillard-Françaix
- Rudolf Palmer
- Massimo Palumbo
- Marios Papadopoulos
- Théodore Paraskivesco
- Jon Kimura ParkerJon Kimura ParkerJon 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...
- David Parkhouse
- Zaidee Parkinson
- Geoffrey ParsonsGeoffrey Parsons (pianist)Geoffrey Penwill Parsons AO OBE was an Australian pianist, most particularly notable as an accompanist to singers and instrumentalists...
- Guy Pattison
- Güher PekinelPekinel sistersGüher Pekinel and Süher Pekinel as identical twins, are Turkish pianists performing mostly in duet.-Early years:...
- Süher PekinelPekinel sistersGüher Pekinel and Süher Pekinel as identical twins, are Turkish pianists performing mostly in duet.-Early years:...
- Frank Pelleg
- Louis-Philippe Pelletier
- Leonard PennarioLeonard PennarioLeonard 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...
- Jean-Claude Pennetier
- Murray PerahiaMurray PerahiaMurray 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 CostaNeal Peres Da CostaNeal 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...
- Vanessa Perez
- Enrique Perez de Guzman
- Alfredo PerlAlfredo PerlAlfredo 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 PerlemuterVlado PerlemuterVlado 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...
- Luis Fernando Pérez
- John Perry
- Vincent PersichettiVincent PersichettiVincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...
- Attila Pertis
- Egon PetriEgon PetriEgon 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...
- Nikolai Petrov
- Christina Petrowska-QuilicoChristina Petrowska-QuilicoChristina Petrowska-Quilico is a Canadian pianist. She is the second wife of Canadian baritone Louis Quilico.- Career :...
- Isidor PhilippIsidor PhilippIsidor Philipp was a French pianist, composer, and distinguished pedagogue of Hungarian descent. He was born in Budapest and died in Paris.-Biography:...
- Maxim Philippov
- Edith Picht-AxenfeldEdith Picht-AxenfeldEdith Picht-Axenfeld was a German pianist and harpsichordist.She started her concert career in 1935, and took part two years later in the third Fryderyk Chopin Competition, where she was awarded a 6th prize; this launched her career...
- Joshua Pierce
- Andrzej PikulAndrzej PikulAndrzej 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 PilladoCecilia PilladoCecilia 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...
- Jose Maria Pinzolas
- Maria João PiresMaria 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...
- Gitti Pirner
- Andrei Pisarev
- Andreas Pistorius
- Artur PizarroArtur PizarroArtur 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...
- Emanuelina Pizzuto
- Alain Planès
- Roberto Plano
- Francis PlantéFrancis PlantéFrancis 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 PletnevMikhail PletnevMikhail 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...
- Jonathan PlowrightJonathan PlowrightJonathan 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...
- Georges Pludermacher
- Ewa Pobłocka
- Ivo PogorelićIvo PogorelicIvo Pogorelić is a Croatian pianist.-Early life:He was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia, to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother...
- Mirka Pokorná
- Joanna Polk
- Daniel PollackDaniel PollackDaniel Pollack is an internationally renowned American pianist recognized for his signature colors in sound and over-the-edge thrilling virtuosity...
- Maurizio PolliniMaurizio PolliniMaurizio 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...
- Jean-Bernard PommierJean-Bernard PommierJean-Bernard Pommier , is a French pianist and conductor.- Biography :Pommier studied conducting at the Conservatoire de Paris with Yves Nat, Pierre Sancan and Eugene Bigot....
- Antonio Pompa-BaldiAntonio 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 PontiMichael PontiMichael 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 Pontinen
- Inna Poroshina
- Paul PosnakPaul PosnakPaul 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 PostnikovaViktoria PostnikovaViktoria 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...
- Harrison PotterHarrison PotterHarrison 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 PouishnoffLeff PouishnoffLeff 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 PoulencFrancis PoulencFrancis 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 PowellJonathan 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....
- Awadagin PrattAwadagin 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...
- Jorge Luis Prats
- Menahem PresslerMenahem PresslerMenahem Pressler is a German-born American pianist, founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio.-Professional career:...
- André PrevinAndré PrevinAndré 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...
- Vassily Primakov
- Xenia Prochorowa
- Paul Procopolis - a pseudonym
- Miguel Proenca
- Sergei ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei 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 PröllRoland PröllRoland Pröll is a German pianist, conductor, composer, musicologist, and professor of music.- Biography :...
- Roberto ProssedaRoberto ProssedaRoberto 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...
- Denys Proshayev
- Svetla ProtichSvetla ProtichSvetla 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...
- Dana Protopopescu
- Stephen Prutsman
- Raoul PugnoRaoul PugnoStéphane 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...
- Evelina Puzaite
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- Alexander RaabAlexander RaabAlexander 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...
- Sergei RachmaninoffSergei RachmaninoffSergei 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...
- Karol Radziwonowicz
- Matti Raekallio
- Margit Rahkonen
- Thomas RajnaThomas RajnaThomas 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...
- Andrew Rangell
- Dezső RánkiDezsõ RánkiDezső 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...
- Ilya RashkovskyIlya RashkovskyIlya Rashkovsky is a Russian pianist.He is a pupil of Vladimir Krainev at the Musikhochschule Hannover. At 17 Rashkovsky was second to Dong-Hyek Lim at the XXII Long-Thibaud Competition, and subsequently won the XLVIII Premio de Jaén and the inaugural edition of the Hong Kong Competition...
- Tatjana Rankovich
- Frantisek Rauch
- Michael RaucheisenMichael RaucheisenTranslated from German WikipediaMichael Raucheisen was a German pianist and song accompanist....
- Maurice RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
- Marjan RawiczRawicz and LandauerRawicz 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
- Pierre Reach
- Antoine Rebstein
- Walter RehbergWalter RehbergWalter Rehberg was a Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer on musical subjects who was particularly active from the 1920s to 1950s....
- Rosita Renard
- Aribert Reimann
- Paolo Restani
- Lívia RévLívia RévLívia 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...
- Alberto Reyes
- Sviatoslav RichterSviatoslav RichterSviatoslav 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-HaaserHans Richter-HaaserHans 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....
- Robert Riefling
- Joshua Rifkin
- Amiram Rigai
- Bruno Rigutto
- Bernard RingeissenBernard RingeissenBernard 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...
- Michael Rische
- Édouard RislerÉdouard RislerJoseph-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...
- André RisticAndré RisticAndré Ristic is a Canadian composer, pianist, accordion player, and music theorist. He has won several awards, including the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 2000 for his work Catalogue de bombes occidentales, the Prix opus for Composer of the Year in 2002, and the Prix Québec-Flandre in...
- Vivian Rivkin
- Bernard RobertsBernard RobertsBernard 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...
- Rae Robertson
- Santiago RodriguezSantiago 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...
, - Marguerite Roesgen-Champion
- Pascal RogéPascal RogéPascal 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...
- Michael Roll
- Helmut RoloffHelmut RoloffHelmut 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...
- Aleksandra RomanićAleksandra RomanićAleksandra 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...
- Landon RonaldLandon RonaldSir Landon Ronald was an English conductor, composer, pianist, singing teacher and administrator...
- Lars Roos
- Martin RoscoeMartin RoscoeMartin 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 RoseJerome 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 RosenCharles RosenCharles 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 RosenbergerCarol RosenbergerCarol 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 RosenthalMoriz RosenthalMoriz 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...
- Mstislav Rostropovich
- Nicholas RothNicholas RothNicholas 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 RouvierJacques RouvierJacques 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...
- Gennady RozhdestvenskyGennady RozhdestvenskyGennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky is a Russian conductor.-Biography:Rozhdestvensky was born in Moscow. His parents were the noted conductor and pedagogue Nikolai Anosov and soprano Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya...
- Mūza RubackytėMuza RubackyteMūza 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....
- Nadja Rubanenko
- Evgenia Rubinova
- Arthur RubinsteinArthur RubinsteinArthur Rubinstein KBE was a Polish-American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers...
- Mikhail RudyMikhail RudyMikhail Rudy is a Russian-born French pianist. He was born on April 3, 1953 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan where his family had been deported by the Soviet regime. His grandparents were imprisoned in concentration camps...
- Adrian Ruiz
- Antonio Ruiz-Pipo
- Ruggero Ruocco
- Franz Rupp
- Ruanne Ruthvin
- Joel Ryce
- Frederic RzewskiFrederic RzewskiFrederic 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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- Geoffrey Saba
- Vasily Safonov
- Caroline Sageman
- Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-SaënsCharles-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...
- Roustem Saitkoulov
- Lise de la Salle
- Mark Salman
- Pnina SalzmanPnina SalzmanPnina Salzman was an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue....
- Olga SamaroffOlga SamaroffOlga 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...
- Harold SamuelHarold SamuelNot 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...
- Esteban Sánchez HerreroEsteban SánchezEsteban Sánchez Herrero was a Spanish pianist. Born in the town of Orellana la Vieja in Badajoz in the province of Extremadura, Sánchez studied with his grandfather, Joaquin Sánchez Ruiz, choirmaster in the cathedral. He went to the Real Conservatorio in Madrid and studied piano with Julia Parody...
- György SándorGyörgy SándorGyörgy Sándor was a Hungarian pianist, writer, student and friend of Béla Bartók, and champion of his music.- Early years :...
- Victor Sangiorgio
- Jesús Maria SanromáJesús Maria SanromáJesús 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:...
- Wassily SapellnikoffWassily SapellnikoffWassily 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....
- David SapertonDavid SapertonDavid Saperton was an American pianist known especially for being the first pianist to play the entire original compositions as well as the complete transcriptions of his father-in-law, Leopold Godowsky. He also recorded a number of Godowsky’s Studies on Chopin's Études as well as other pieces...
- Alexander SatzAlexander SatzAlexander Igorevich Satz was a Russian pianist and educator.Satz's musical career is quite unusual. He did not take up music in a professional way until the age of 14, when he started taking piano lessons with Leonid Brumberg...
- Emil von SauerEmil von SauerEmil 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...
- Wolfgang SawallischWolfgang SawallischWolfgang Sawallisch is a retired German conductor and pianist.-Biography:Sawallisch was born in Munich, and studied composition and pianoforte there privately: at the conclusion of the war, in 1946 he continued his studies at the Munich High School for Music and passed his final examination for...
- Fazıl SayFazil SayFazıl 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...
- Ergican SaydamErgican Saydam-Ergican Saydam:Ergican Saydam was a Turkish pianist and piano pedagogue. He was an advocate of Turkish composers such as Cemal Reşit Rey, Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Cengiz Tanç and İlhan Usmanbaş whose music he premiered and recorded...
- Pietro Scarpini
- Michael Schaefer
- Irene ScharrerIrene ScharrerIrene Scharrer was an English classical pianist.Irene Scharrer was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Tobias Matthay....
- Xaver ScharwenkaXaver ScharwenkaFranz 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 :...
- Staffan Scheja
- Sergey SchepkinSergey SchepkinSergey Schepkin is an American pianist of Russian birth. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.-Performer:Schepkin was born in St. Petersburg. He started playing piano at the age of five under the tutelage of Leah Zelikhman, and studied piano at the St...
- Julius Schendell
- Konstantin ScherbakovKonstantin ScherbakovKonstantin Scherbakov is a Russian pianist. He was the winner of the first Rachmaninov Competition in 1983...
- Ann Schein CarlyssAnn Schein CarlyssAnn 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 SchiffAndrás SchiffAndrás Schiff is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist, who has won a number of awards including the Grammy and made numerous recordings.- Biography :...
- Paul von Schilhawsky
- Allan Schiller
- Victor SchiølerVictor SchiølerVictor 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...
- Ragna Schirmer
- Steffen SchleiermacherSteffen SchleiermacherSteffen 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 SchmalfussPeter SchmalfussPeter 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...
- Benno Schmidbauer
- Helmut SchmidtHelmut SchmidtHelmut 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...
- Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
- E. Robert SchmitzE. Robert SchmitzElie 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 SchnabelArtur SchnabelArtur 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 SchnabelKarl Ulrich SchnabelKarl Ulrich Schnabel was an Austrian pianist, and the son of pianist Artur Schnabel and operatic contralto and lieder singer Therese Behr.-Biography:...
- Edwin SchneiderEdwin SchneiderEdwin Schneider was an American pianist, teacher, and music editor. He is best known as the partner and accompanist of Irish tenor John McCormack. Before meeting McCormack, he was an editor and translator for the John Church Company.-References:...
- Arthur Schoonderwoerd
- Andre-Michel SchubAndre-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...
- Kurt Schubert
- Hermann Schwertmann
- Alexander ScriabinAlexander ScriabinAlexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
- Györgi Sebök
- Carl Seeman
- Yitkin Seow
- Valentina Seferinova
- Bruno Seidler-Winkler
- Kathryn SelbyKathryn SelbyKathryn 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 SelvaBlanche SelvaBlanche 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...
- Aleksandar Serdar
- Pavel (Paul) Serebryakov (Serebriakov)
- Peter SerkinPeter 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 SerkinRudolf SerkinRudolf Serkin , was a Bohemian-born pianist.-Life and early career:Serkin was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Russian-Jewish family....
- Hüseyin SermetHüseyin SermetHüseyin Sermet is a Turkish pianist and composer. He is a Doctor Honoris Causa by the Boğaziçi and Marmara universities, and was named a State Artist in 1991. He is Co-President of ADAP , based in Paris.-External links:* * www.adapinternational.org...
- Annette Servadei
- Setrak (sic)
- Arkady Sevidov
- Dimitris SgourosDimitris SgourosDimitris 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...
- Regina ShamviliRegina ShamviliRegina 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...
- Tatiana Shebanova
- Mordecai ShehoriMordecai ShehoriMordecai 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 ShelleyHoward ShelleyHoward Gordon Shelley OBE is a British pianist and conductor. He was educated at Highgate School and the Royal College of Music...
- Anatoly SheludyakovAnatoly SheludyakovAnatoly 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...
- Craig Sheppard
- Russell ShermanRussell ShermanRussell 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 ShetlerNorman ShetlerNorman Shetler is a pianist, puppeteer and puppett constructor, and piano professor with Austrian nationality and American origin.-Life and career:...
- Mikhail Sheyne
- Jonathan Shin'ar
- Fumigo Shirama
- Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
- Leonard ShureLeonard ShureLeonard 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...
- Jeffrey Siegel
- Valery SigalevitchValery SigalevitchValery Sigalevitch is a Russian classical concert pianist.-Biography:...
- Antti SiiralaAntti SiiralaAntti 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...
- Alexander SilotiAlexander SilotiAlexander 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...
- Robert Silverman
- Abbey SimonAbbey 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...
- Laszlo Simon
- Dejan Sinadinovich
- Leo SirotaLeo SirotaLeo Sirota was a Jewish pianist born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolskaya Guberniya, Russian Empire, now Ukraine....
- Larry SitskyLarry SitskyLazar Sitsky AM, usually referred to as Larry Sitsky, born 10 September 1934, is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar...
- Katia SkanaviKatia SkanaviKatia Skanavi is a Russian pianist of Greek descent.Skavani started a concert career after being awarded the XXII Long-Thibaud Competition's 3rd prize at 18. In 1994 she won Athens' Maria Callas Grand Prize.-References:*...
- Harrison SlaterHarrison SlaterHarrison Gradwell Slater is an American writer, pianist, and educator.A pianist, he studied with Anthony di Bonaventura and for many years with Paul Doguereau, the noted French pianist who was a pupil of Ravel, Emma Bardac and Paderewski...
- Vivien Harvey Slater
- Ruth SlenczynskaRuth 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...
- Anna Sleptsova
- Alexander SlobodyanikAlexander SlobodyanikAlexander 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 SmendziankaRegina SmendziankaRegina 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 SmeterlinJan SmeterlinJan Smeterlin was a Polish concert pianist. He is especially known as an interpreter of Chopin and Karol Szymanowski.-Life:...
- Leo Smit
- Brooks Smith
- Cyril SmithCyril Smith (pianist)Cyril James Smith OBE was a virtuoso concert pianist of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and a piano teacher.-Personal life:...
- Philip Smith
- Ronald SmithRonald SmithRonald 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...
- Wibi SoerjadiWibi SoerjadiWibi Soerjadi is an internationally-recognized concert pianist who has performed with several veteran conductors, including Evgeny Svetlanov, Vassili Sinaisky and Sergiu Comissiona.-Collaborations:...
- Vladimir SofronitskyVladimir SofronitskyVladimir 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 SokolovGrigory SokolovGrigory 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:...
- Juan Maria SolareJuan María SolareJuan 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
- Yonty Solomon
- Georg SoltiGeorg SoltiSir Georg Solti, KBE, was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his...
- Wonny SongWonny Song-See also:* Pianists* Canadian classical music* Young Concert Artists-External links:* * * * at Zankel Hall, from The New York Times...
- Alexandre Sorel
- Gonzalo SorianoGonzalo SorianoGonzalo 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...
- Raoul Sosa
- Vladimir Soultanov
- Pietro SpadaPietro SpadaPietro 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...
- August Spanuth
- Boris Spasski
- Leslie SpotzLeslie SpotzLeslie Spotz is an American pianist.-Biography:Spotz studied, as a full-scholarship recipient, at the Curtis Institute of Music with Mieczysław Horszowski, who was associated with Pablo Casals.She completed her doctorate at Rutgers University in 2002....
- Dubravka Tomšič SrebotnjakDubravka Tomšic SrebotnjakDubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak is a Slovenian pianist and music teacher.Her substantial talent as a pianist was made obvious while receiving private instruction at a young age, so it was only natural that she continue her education in the field, first at the Music high school in Ljubljana and later at...
- Peter StadlenPeter StadlenPeter Stadlen was a composer, pianist, and musicologist, specializing in the study and interpretation of Beethoven....
- Martin StadtfeldMartin StadtfeldMartin 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 StaierAndreas StaierAndreas 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...
- David Stanhope
- Naum Starkman
- Bernhard StavenhagenBernhard StavenhagenBernhard 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:...
- Susan StarrSusan 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...
- Ludwik Stefański
- Pavel ŠtěpánPavel ŠtepánProf. 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...
- Edna Stern
- Avraham Sternklar
- Eduard SteuermannEduard SteuermannEduard Steuermann was an Austrian pianist and composer. The actress Salka Viertel was his sister...
- Ronald StevensonRonald StevensonRonald 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...
- Leslie Stiefelman
- Molly Newton Stier
- Gregory Stockwell
- Kathryn StottKathryn StottKathryn 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...
- Richard Strauss
- Igor StravinskyIgor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
- Soulima StravinskySoulima StravinskySviatoslav Soulima Stravinsky was a Swiss-American pianist, composer and musicologist of Russian and Ukrainian descent...
- Ortwin Stürmer
- Yevgeny SudbinYevgeny SudbinYevgeny 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...
- Shoko Sugitani
- Grete SultanGrete SultanGrete 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 SultanovAlexei SultanovAlexei 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...
- Mei-Ting SunMei-Ting SunMei-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...
- Yingdi SunYingdi SunChinese 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 SutroRose and Ottilie SutroRose 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...
- Zeyda Ruga Suzuki
- Yevgeny Svetlanov
- Ruslan SviridovRuslan SviridovRuslan Valentinovich Sviridov is a Russian pianist.-Biography:In 1987-1991 studied at Tambov Musical College with Natalia Kolpakova...
- Jeffrey Swann
- David SymeDavid SymeDavid 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:...
- Edvard Syomin
- Istvan Szekely
- Roberto SzidonRoberto SzidonRoberto 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 SzokolayBalázs SzokolayBalázs 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
- Karol Szreter
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- Yaara TalDuo Tal & GroethuysenThe Israeli pianist Yaara Tal and her German partner Andreas Groethuysen are a piano duo....
- Gabriel TacchinoGabriel TacchinoGabriel 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...
- Magda TagliaferroMagda TagliaferroMagdalena Maria Yvonne Tagliaferro was a Brazilian-born pianist of French extraction. Born in Petropolis, Brazil, she studied under Antonin Marmontel and Alfred Cortot...
- Mark TaimanovMark TaimanovMark 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...
- Aki TakahashiAki Takahashiis a Japanese pianist specializing in contemporary classical music.-Biography:Born in Kamakura, she began studying piano at the age of five and received her M.A. degree from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Her teachers included Yutaka Ito, Ray Lev, and George Vásárhelyi...
- Yuji TakahashiYuji Takahashiis a Japanese composer, performer, pianist and author.Studied under Roh Ogura and Minao Shibata at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1960, he made his debut as a pianist by performing Bo Nilsson's Quantitaten. He lived in Europe from 1963 to 1966 where he worked with Iannis Xenakis. He gave the...
- Ani TakidzeAni TakidzeAni 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...
- Rosa TamarkinaRosa TamarkinaRosa Tamarkina was a Soviet pianist who won second prize in the third International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw .Tamarkina, born in Kiev, began learning piano as a very young child...
- Alexander TamirBracha Eden and Alexander TamirBracha 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...
- Melvyn TanMelvyn TanMelvyn Tan is a Singapore-born British classical pianist, noted for his study of historical performance practice....
- Rüya TanerRüya TanerRüya Taner is a Turkish Cypriot pianist. Taner is acknowledged as one of Turkey's new generation leading pianists.-External links:*...
- Seta Tanyel
- Maria Eugenia Tapia
- Sergei Tarnowsky
- Izumi Tateno
- Thomas Lexi Taylor
- Nivaldo Tavares
- Andre Tchaikowsky
- Igor Tchetuev
- Simon TedeschiSimon TedeschiSimon 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,...
- Per TengstrandPer TengstrandPer 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...
- Louis TeicherLouis TeicherLouis 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 TeissonniereGerardo TeissonniereGerardo 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...
- Daria Telizyn
- Alfred TeltschikAlfred TeltschikAlfred 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...
- Alexandre TharaudAlexandre Tharaud-Biography:Born in Paris, Alexandre Tharaud discovered the music scene through his father, a director and singer of operettas, which were put on in theaters of Northern France, where his family spent many weekends...
- Erik Then-Bergh
- Jean-Yves ThibaudetJean-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....
- Philip Thomson
- Cédric Tiberghien
- Michael Tilson Thomas
- Germaine Thyssens-ValentinGermaine Thyssens-ValentinGermaine Thyssens-Valentin was a classical pianist of Franco-Dutch parentage, noted for her performances of French music...
- Ignace Tiegerman
- Sergio TiempoSergio TiempoSergio Daniel Tiempo is a Venezuelan-Argentine classical pianist. He has studied under some of the best known pianists....
- Hugh Tinney
- Maria Tipo
- Martino TirimoMartino TirimoMartino Tirimo is a Cypriot pianist, born in Larnaca, Cyprus. He won the Liszt Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music at sixteen, going on to graduate with the highest honours; in 1971 and 1972 winning the International Piano Competitions in Munich and Geneva launched his international...
- Thomas Tirino
- Maria TipoMaria Tipo-Biography:Tipo was born in Naples. She was taught originally by her mother, Ersilia Cavallo, who was a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, she went on to study under Alfredo Casella and Guido Agosti.At only seventeen, she won the Geneva international piano competition...
- James ToccoJames ToccoJames Tocco is an American concert pianist. He is the youngest of thirteen children born to Vincenzo and Rose Tocco, both Sicilian immigrants.-Early life:...
- Giorgia Tomassi
- Susan Tomes
- Dubravka Tomsic
- Peter Toperczer
- Alexander ToradzeAlexander ToradzeAlexander Toradze is a classical concert pianist, best known for his classical Russian repertoire, with career spanning over three decades...
- Debra Torok
- Donald Tovey
- Geoffrey TozerGeoffrey TozerGeoffrey 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...
- Bradford Tracey
- Klaas Trapman
- Max TrappMax TrappHermann 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 TrifonovDaniil 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...
- William Tritt
- Raymond Trouard
- Simon TrpčeskiSimon TrpceskiSimon 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 TryonValerie TryonValerie 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...
- Joanna Trzeciak
- Mitsuko Tsuda
- Rosemary Tuck
- David TudorDavid TudorDavid 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...
- Rosalyn TureckRosalyn TureckRosalyn Tureck was an American pianist and harpsichordist who was particularly associated with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...
- Ronald Turini
- Nathan Twining
- Anderson TyrerAnderson TyrerAnderson 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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- Zeynep ÜçbaşaranZeynep Üçbasaran-Biography:Pianist Zeynep Üçbaşaran was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She started her music studies at age four at the Istanbul Conservatory as one of the youngest ever to be admitted....
- Mitsuko UchidaMitsuko 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...
- Ayako UeharaAyako Ueharais a classical pianist.She won 2nd prize in the 2000 Sydney International Piano Competition. In 2002 she became the first woman to win the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition....
- Dina Ugorskaja
- Anatol Ugorski
- Frederick Ullen
- Tamás Ungár
- Alexander UninskyAlexander 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....
- Imre UngarImré UngárImre Ungár was a Hungarian pianist.He was blind since the age of three. While a student under István Thomán at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music he won the Competition for Young Talents, beginning a concert career through Hungary. He took part in the II Fryderyk Chopin Competition, tying with...
- Rem UrasinRem UrasinRem 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 ....
- Mihaela Ursuleasa
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- Janis Vakarelis
- Arbo ValdmaArbo ValdmaArbo Valdma is a Serbian pianist and music pedagogue of Estonian heritage. He is a professor of piano at the University of Music in Cologne...
- Frieda Valenzi
- Vladimir ValjarevićVladimir ValjarevicVladimir 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...
- Madeleine de Valmalete
- Manfred van Cleef
- Hugo Van Dalen
- Pieter van Winkel
- Arie VardiArie VardiArie 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...
- Daniel Varsano
- Elena Varvarova
- Tamás VásáryTamás VásáryTamás 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...
- Alexander Vaulin
- Anatoly Vedernikov
- Kosti VehanenKosti VehanenKosti Vehanen was a Finnish pianist and composer. As a pianist he performed in more than 3 000 concerts on four continents...
- Ester VelaDuo VelaThe 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 VelaDuo VelaThe 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:...
- Ana-Maria Vera
- Ilana VeredIlana 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...
- Frances Veri
- Jan Vermeulen
- Arielle Vernede
- Matthijs VerschoorMatthijs VerschoorMatthijs 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....
- Valeria Vetruccio
- José Vianna da MottaJosé Vianna da MottaJosé Vianna da Motta was a distinguished Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt...
- Vladimir ViardoVladimir ViardoVladimir 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...
- Carlo VidussoCarlo VidussoCarlo Vidusso was an Italian pianist.He studied piano with Ernesto Drangosch and, at 9 years old, got the diploma in Buenos Aires...
- Andrei Vieru
- Roger VignolesRoger VignolesRoger 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 ViñesRicardo ViñesRicardo 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,...
- Anna VinnitskayaAnna VinnitskayaAnna Vinnitskaya is a Russian pianist who won the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.-Biography:Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk. She displayed musical talent from an early age, following her first piano lessons at age 6...
- Lev Vinocour
- Isabel von Vintschger
- Jurg von Vintschger
- Eliso VirsaladzeEliso VirsaladzeEliso 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...
- Ferenc Vizi
- Stefan VladarStefan 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 VladigerovPancho VladigerovPancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....
- Lev VlasenkoLev VlasenkoWorld-renowned international concert pianist and teacher, Lev Vlassenko born in Tbilisi, 1928; died in Brisbane, 1996) He won the First Prize in the 1956 Franz Liszt Competition and was second to Van Cliburn at the I-st Tchaikovsky Competition two years later.In 1991 he was decorated a People's...
- Lars Vogt
- Aleksey VolodinAleksey VolodinAlexei 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 VolodosArcadi VolodosArcadi 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...
- Pierre-Alain Volondat
- Andrew von OeyenAndrew 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...
- Otakar Vondrovic
- Gilles Vonsattel
- Franz Vorraber
- Ralph VotapekRalph VotapekRalph Votapek is an American pianist notable for winning the First Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1962....
- Vitya VronskyVronsky & BabinVronsky & 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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- Rian de Waal
- Vanessa WagnerVanessa WagnerVanessa Wagner is a French pianist.She studied in the class of Dominique Merlet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. At 17, she won the first prize, and went on to study with Jean-François Heisser...
- Robert Wallenborn
- Lory Wallfisch
- Bruno WalterBruno WalterBruno 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...
- Jue Wang
- Yuja WangYuja WangYuja 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:...
- Theo Wangemann
- Andrzej WasowskiAndrzej WasowskiAndrzej 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...
- Ashley Wass
- Rodney Waters
- Huw WatkinsHuw WatkinsHuw 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 WattsAndré WattsAndré Watts is a classical pianist and professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University.-Life and early performances:...
- Janice Weber
- Beveridge WebsterBeveridge WebsterBeveridge 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...
- David Allen Wehr
- Gregor Weichert
- Vivian Hornik Weilerstein
- Nancy WeirNancy WeirNancy 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
- Edward Weiss
- Orion WeissOrion WeissOrion 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...
- Yael Weiss
- Alexis WeissenbergAlexis 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...
- Jean Wentworth
- Kenneth Wentworth
- Emily White
- Ueli WigetUeli WigetUeli 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 WildEarl WildRoyland 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...
- David WildeDavid WildeDavid Wilde is an English pianist and composer. As a boy he studied with Solomon and his pupil Franz Reizenstein, who had also studied composition with Hindemith and Vaughan Williams...
- Gerard WillemsGerard WillemsGerard 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 WilliamsLlyr WilliamsLlŷr Williams is a Welsh pianist.-Childhood:Llŷr Williams was born in 1976 in the village of Pentre Bychan in Wrexham, Wales....
- Malcolm WilliamsonMalcolm WilliamsonMalcolm 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:...
- Kevin Willock
- Paul WittgensteinPaul WittgensteinPaul 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 WnukowskiDaniel WnukowskiDaniel 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...
- Ernst Victor WolffErnst Victor WolffErnst 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...
- William Wolfram
- Eleanor WongEleanor Wong (musician)Eleanor Wong Yee-lun is a pianist and keyboards teacher in Hong Kong. Wong studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London on an Associated Board Scholarship with Frederic Jackson and Max Pirani...
- See Siang WongSee Siang WongSee Siang Wong is a Dutch/Chinese pianist. He currently lives in Switzerland.- Biography :...
- Roger WoodwardRoger WoodwardRoger 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
- Adam Woznicki
- Steven Wray
- Roger WrightRoger WrightRoger 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 WührerFriedrich WührerFriedrich 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 YablonskayaOxana YablonskayaOxana 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...
- Samuel Yaffe
- Isabelle Yalkovsky (Byman)
- Vladimir Yampolsky
- Joyce YangJoyce YangJoyce Yang is a classical pianist.She began playing piano at age four as her aunt's first piano student . At age nine, Yang went to New York with her mother and aunt to play for Yoheved Kaplinsky...
- Ventsislav YankoffVentsislav YankovVentsislav Yankov is a Bulgarian pianist and pedagogue. Trained in Berlin, he settled in France in 1946; three years later he won ex-aequo with Aldo Ciccolini the III Concours Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud's Grand Prize...
- Ramzi YassaRamzi YassaRamzi 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...
- Chun-Chieh Yen
- Anna YesipovaAnna YesipovaAnna 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...
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- Christine YoshikawaChristine YoshikawaChristine 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...
- Maria YudinaMaria YudinaMaria 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 ZacharaFranciszek ZacharaFranciszek Zachara was a Polish-American pianist and composer who concertized extensively throughout Europe in the years leading up to 1928...
- Christian ZachariasChristian Zacharias-Music career:Zacharias studied piano with Irene Slavin and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. He won the Geneva Competition in 1969 and the Van Cliburn Competition in 1973. After winning the Ravel Competition in Paris in 1975, he launched an international career...
- Michael Zadora
- Yakov ZakYakov ZakYakov 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 ZakrzewskiBerenika ZakrzewskiBerenika , 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...
- Irina Zaritskaya
- Juana Zayas
- Carlo ZecchiCarlo ZecchiCarlo 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 ZechlinDieter ZechlinDieter 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 ZeltserMark ZeltserMark 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...
- Ren Zhang
- Zhu Xiao-Mei
- Igor ZhukovIgor ZhukovIgor 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 ZilbersteinLilya 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 ZimermanKrystian ZimermanKrystian Zimerman is a Polish classical pianist who is widely regarded as one of the finest living pianists.-Biography:...
- Gerrit Zitterbart
- Alicia Zizzo
- Tadeusz ŻmudzińskiTadeusz ŻmudzińskiTadeusz 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...
- Aline Zylberajch