Grand
Piano Festival Performers
DMITRI
BASHKIROV
Sunday,
April 24 at 2 p.m.
Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, Parkville Campus
Dmitri Bashkirov’s name has been known in the musical world to the public since 1956 when he received the “Grand Prix” at the Marguerite Long Competition in Paris. After his Paris success, Dmitri Bashkirov established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian pianists.
He was born in November 1931 in Tiflis, Georgia, and studied there with
Anastasia Wirsaladze, and in Moscow with the famous Soviet pianist and
pedagogue, Alexander Goldenweiser, a contemporary of both Rachinaninov
and Scriabin and a young friend of Leon Tolstoy.
Dmitri Bashkirov has
played with numerous orchestras including the Chicago Symphony,
Cleveland, San Francisco Symohony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Vienna
Symphony, the St.Petersburg Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic,
L’Orchestre de Paris, the Gewandhaus Orchestra und conductors such as
Sir John Barbirolli, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawa, George Szell, Igor
Markevitch, Evgeny Svetlanov, Kurt Sanderling, Zubin Mehia, Carlo Zecchi,
Gnnady Rohzdestvensky, Daniel Barenbeim, Vladimir Aszkinasi and others.
He has played in the Vienna, Dubrovnik, Helsinki, La Rogue D’Anthelon,
Toulouse, Bolonia, Santander, Berlin, Lildwigsburg, Ruhr Festival,
Granada Festival, Palma Majorca Festival, Verbier Festival (Suisse) and
others.
He has taught at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and went
on to form a trio with the violinist Bezrohdny and the cellist Khomitser.
Between 1965 and 1972, this trio was considered one of the most
important chamber ensembles in the former USSR.
His successful career was interrupted in 1980 when the authorities in
the former Soviet Union refused permission for him to appear in the
West. Mr. Bashkirov was only allowed to leave the country eight years
later. Since then, he has had highly successful concerts in France,
Italy, Spain, Finland, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Germany, Rumania,
Switzerland, England, Portugal, Israel, USA, and others.
In addition to his career as a pianist, Dmitri Bashkirov is a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, is Titular Professor at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid and a professor at the International Piano Academy at Lake Como, Italy. 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 the Autonomous University in Madrid, Honorary Prize in the Ruhr Piano Festival. He records with “Erato”, “Melodia” and “EMI”.
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