Piano Master Class

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Following his concert on October 27 in the Fanny Hensel Hall, Prof. Mikhail Voskresensky (Juilliard School, New York) will give a public master class for piano students at the HfMT.

Mikhail Voskresensky attended the Moscow Conservatory and was trained by Lev Nikolayevich Oborin, who himself was the first-prize winner at the first Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1927. In 1956, Voskresensky tied for third place with the Polish pianist Lidia Grychtołówna at the first Robert Schumann Competition, which was then still held in Berlin. He also won third prize at the first Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. In 1957, he was the soloist in the first performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102, outside the Soviet Union. This concert took place as part of the Prague Spring festival, and the composer was present in person.

In 1966, Voskresensky was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR, and in 1989, the title of People’s Artist of the RSFSR.

Voskresensky was a professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory until 2022 and, from 2001 to 2004, a visiting professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Chōfu, near Tokyo, Japan. He is also an “Artist-in-Residence” at the Juilliard School in New York. In 2011, Voskresensky served as a juror at the 14th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

In 2022, he emigrated from Russia to the United States because, as he explained, he opposed Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine.

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