Pianist Mikhail Voskresensky - Official website

Mikhail

Voskresensky

commands

an

international

reputation

as

a

pianist

in

the

great

Romantic

tradition.

He

is

prizewinner

of

four

international

piano

competitions

(Schumann

in

Berlin,

in

Rio

de

Janeiro,

George

Enescu

in

Bucharest,

and

Van

Cliburn

in

Fort

Worth,

Texas).

In

1966

he

was

honoured

with

the

Merited

Artist

of

Russia

award

and

in

1989,

the

People's

Artist

of

Russia.

Mikhail

Voskresensky

has

extensive

concert

experience.

He

is

the

only

pianist

in

Russia

to

perform

all

of

Chopin's

piano

compositions

during

one

concert

season;

this

in

1982

/

83,

in

nine

recitals

in

the

Maly

Hall

of

the

Moscow

Conservatoire.

In

1957

the

young

pianist

took

part

in

the

Prague

Spring

Festival

where

he

performed

European

premiere

of

Shostakovich Second Piano concerto with the presence of Shostakovich himself.

Mikhail Voskresensky is a distinguished professor at the Moscow Conservatory, the chair of the professorship of piano faculty. His pupils have won 126 international prizes including 55 gold medals. Mikhail Voskresensky is President of the Scriabin International Society and Guest Professor in the Toho Gakuen School in Tokyo. Although Mr. Voskresensky devotes many of his efforts to teaching and giving master classes in various countries, he undoubtedly considers his primary purpose to be performing. Voskresensky is an extraordinary and unique musician: when hearing his playing one can feel his sincere and subtle soul - a rare thing, indeed, in our rational times. He recorded more than 50 CD's, including a box with all Mozart Piano Concertos (2013) and a 5CD box (2015) with all Mozart Piano Sonatas.