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For more than 60 years and counting, Russian pianist Mikhail Voskresensky has given concerts around the world. As the top prize winner of the Schumann International Piano competition, Rio de Janeiro, Enescu in Bucharest and The First Van Cliburn competition, Voskresensky has captivated audiences with his electrifying interpretations of the great piano literature of all styles.

Born in the city Berdyansk (Ukraine), Voskresensky graduated from the Moscow Conservatory. His teachers included Lev Oborin (the first prize winner of the First Chopin Competition in Warsaw), Ilia Klyachko, Jacob Milstein, Boris Zemliansky and Leonid Roizman (organ). Voskresensky’s career began from a performance of Chopin’s 2nd piano concerto in Warsaw with the Bolshoi Theatre Urchestra under the baton of Eugeny Svetlanov. In 1957 he played the European premiere of Shostakovich's 2nd concerto in the Prague Spring Festival at the presence of the composer himself, who gave him several lessons personally.

His YouTube channel boasts more than 100 videos of his recitals and concertos with orchestras. The last live recordings include 27 piano concertos of Mozart and all of his sonatas, all of Beethoven’s concertos with the Choral Fantasy and many others.

Voskresensky is the distinguished professor of the Moscow Tchaikovsky conservatory, and Chair of the Piano faculty. Since 1992 he has also served as guest professor of the Toho Gakuen School in Tokyo. His pupils have won more than 120 international prizes, including 61 gold medals, and include Varvara Nepomniatschaya, Stanislav Igolinsky, Temirzhan Erzhanov, Yury Favorin, Alexander Guindin, Amir Tebenikhin, Sergei Koudriakov, Alexey Nabiulin, Evelina Vorontsova, Mikhail Yanovitsky, Oleg Marshev, Sergey Neller, Alexey Kurbatov, Yuri Martynov and many others. 

He was awarded the highest artistic title in Russia - People Artist of Russia (1989), as well as the Japanese Medal of “the Rising Sun and Gold Rays,” awarded by the Emperor of Japan.

In June 2022 Voskresensky left Russia with his family in protest against the war in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States, where he immediately became in demand, and currently serves as visiting professor at the Juilliard School. Recent recitals include the Lilacs Recital Series (Manhattan), the PianoTexas International Festival, the Northern Lights Music Festival (Minnesota), Rowan University, and Eastman School of Music, which were all received as brilliant successes.

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