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Russian Pianist Dmitry Bashkirov in Recital on Sunday February 21, 1999, 4:00 p.m., Finney Chapel
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PROGRAM: Sonata movement in G minor Nine Lieder INTERMISSION Romeo and Juliet at their parting Six Preludes Three "Moments Musicaux" |
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Russian-born pianist Dmitry Bashkirov, the Danenberg Artist-in-Residence will perform Sunday, February 21, 4:00 p.m., in Finney Chapel. The concert program will showcase works by Mozart, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, and nine Lisztian transcriptions of Schubert lieder. This concert is free and open to the public.
Bashkirov first achieved international fame in 1955 when he received the "Grand Prix" at the Marguerite Long Competition in Paris. He studied in Tiflis with Anastasia Wirssaladze, and in Moscow with Russian pianist, pedagogue, writer and composer Alexander Goldenweiser, a contemporary of Rachmaninov and Scriabin, and a friend of Leo Tolstoy.
He has played with numerous orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic. He has performed under conductors including Sir John Barbirolli, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, George Szell, Igor Markevitch, Evgueny Svetlanov, Kurt Sanderling, Gennady Rohzdestvensky, Daniel Barenboim, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Zubin Mehta.
Bashkirov's successful career was interrupted in 1980 when Soviet authorities refused to provide permission for him to appear in the West. Only eight years later, under Mr. Gorbachev's new policy, was he allowed to leave the USSR again. Since then, he has performed acclaimed concerts in Switzerland, England, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Spain, Portugal, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Israel and Bulgaria.
In 1957, he became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. His pupils have included Dmitry Alexeev, Nikolai Demidenko, Eldar Nebolsine and Valery Kuleshov. He later formed one of Russia's leading chamber ensembles, a trio with the violinist Bezrohdny and the cellist Khomister. He has also performed with the Borodin Quartet, most recently with Gidon Kremer.
Bashkirov is a professor at the Isaac Albeniz Foundation in Madrid. In addition to his Oberlin master classes, he has given master classes at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Paris Conservatoire, Barcelona, Helsinki and Kalamazoo.
He was named Honorary People's Artist of Russia and won the Special Robert Schumann Medal in Zwickau as well as the Honorary Medal of Madrid University. He records for the Erato label.
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