Yury Favorin
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Yury Favorin — Russia
n pianist
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under Mikhail Voskresensky (piano) (2004—2009). Since 2009 he is a postgraduate student at the same Conservatory.
He has taken part in a number of music festivals, such as the International Baltic Festival (2006), 3rd International Festival of Classical Music Primavera Classica (2007), International Festival dedicated to the 100th birthday of Olivier Messiaen (2008), 12th Piano Festival Gradus ad Parnassum (2008), Steinway Parade in Moscow (2009), 12th International Festival of Modern Music Moscow Forum: Francophony (2010), and others.
Yury Favorin appears in great concert halls in Moscow and other Russian cities, as well as in Poland, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Norway, Italy, and France. He performs works of classical and modern composers as Ludwig van Beethoven
, Robert Schumann
, Frédéric Chopin
, Franz Liszt
, Edvard Grieg
, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
, Sergei Rachmaninoff
, Nikolai Medtner
, Dmitri Shostakovich
, Ferruccio Busoni
, Leoš Janáček
, Olivier Messiaen
, Pierre Boulez
, György Ligeti
, Marc-André Hamelin
. In 2007 he performed Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques with the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Boulez and, in December 2008, Béla Bartók
's Scherzo (op. 2) for piano and orchestra (premiere in Russia).
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
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Biography
Yury Favorin studied in Moscow at the Gnesins High School of Music under the supervision of Lidiya Grigorieva (piano), Ivan Mozgovenko (clarinet), and Vladimir Dovgan (composition) (1995—2004) and the Tchaikovsky ConservatoryMoscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...
under Mikhail Voskresensky (piano) (2004—2009). Since 2009 he is a postgraduate student at the same Conservatory.
He has taken part in a number of music festivals, such as the International Baltic Festival (2006), 3rd International Festival of Classical Music Primavera Classica (2007), International Festival dedicated to the 100th birthday of Olivier Messiaen (2008), 12th Piano Festival Gradus ad Parnassum (2008), Steinway Parade in Moscow (2009), 12th International Festival of Modern Music Moscow Forum: Francophony (2010), and others.
Yury Favorin appears in great concert halls in Moscow and other Russian cities, as well as in Poland, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Norway, Italy, and France. He performs works of classical and modern composers as Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
, Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
, Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
, Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
, Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
, Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
, Nikolai Medtner
Nikolai Medtner
Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist.A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano...
, Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
, Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...
, Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janácek
Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
, Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
, Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
, György Ligeti
György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
, Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ, is a French Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marc-André Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also a pianist, introduced him to the works of Alkan, Godowsky, and Sorabji when he was...
. In 2007 he performed Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques with the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Boulez and, in December 2008, Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
's Scherzo (op. 2) for piano and orchestra (premiere in Russia).
Prizes
- Queen Elisabeth Music CompetitionQueen Elisabeth Music CompetitionThe Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, a founding member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions has been, since its foundation, considered the world over to be one of the most prestigious and most difficult. It is devoted to violin , piano , to composition and to singing...
(piano), 4th prize (BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, BelgiumBelgiumBelgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, 2010). - Olivier MessiaenOlivier MessiaenOlivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
Competition (modern piano), 4th prize (“Yvonne Loriod Prize”) and Prize for the young soloist (ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, 2007) - The 1st Nikolay Rubinstein Competition for Young Pianists (Moscow), 1st prize (Moscow, 2001)
- Gyorgy Cziffra Foundation, 1st prize (WienWienWien is the German language name for Vienna, the city and federal state in Austria.* Wien , in Vienna, Austria* Theater an der Wien, a theater in Vienna located at the former river WienWien may also refer to:...
, AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, 2003) - Diploma by the Ministry of Culture in Russia
- Andrey Petrov All-Russia Prize for Young Composers (“Crystal Tuning Fork”)
CDs
- Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium. Piano 2010. 3 CDs + Encore:
- CD 1 — LISZT F. Concerto n. 1 in E flat major
- CD 2 — FAFCHAMPS J.-L. Back to the Sound
- Encore — SCHUBERT F. Sonata in E flat major D 568