Masterclass for piano

Masterclass for Piano –

 Boris Petrushansky 

Each active participant will get two lessons with Boris Petrushansky.

Registration by e-mailonly. Please include your complete address and e-mail address, repertoire, a CV :

sekretariat@rubinstein-akademie.de

Registrations are considered according to the date of receipt.
All participants that are accepted will be notifified.

Boris Petrushansky`s highly original creativity and vivacios personality have gained him wide recognition as a concert pianist.

Born in 1949 in Moscow, he started playing piano at the age of five, supported by a musical family, and had among his teachers the eminent Heinrich Neuhaus. After studying with Lev Naumov, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1975, having already distinguished himself  in major international competitions, for example at Leeds in 1969, Munich in 1971, and Terni in 1975, where he won first prize.

Ever since the summer of 1975 when he gave two unforgettable recitals at the “Festival dei due Mondi” at Spoleto and the “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino” Festival (substituting Richter), Petrushansky has not looked back. His performances have taken him to Italy, Finland, Sweden, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Czecoslovakia, USA, Hungary, Israel, Egypt, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong-Kong, S.Africa. He has made various recordings with Melodia (Russia), Symposium (U.K.), Fone, Agora, Dynamic, Stradivarius (Italy), Art&Electronics (Russia -U.S.A.).

The many orchestras that he has played with include: The Petersburg Philarmonic  Orchestra, The State Symphony Orchestra of Russia, The Moscow Philarmonic, The Czech Philarmonic, The Berlin Staatskapelle, The Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, The “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino” Festival Orchestra, The Helsinki Philarmonic, The Moscow Chamber Orchestra, European Community Chamber Orchestra, The “New European Strings”, The Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, etc.

He has played with many renowned conductors, such as J. Ferencik, E. Bour, V. Fedoseev, E.-P. Salonen, V. Gergiev, A. Lazarev, P. Bellugi, M. Atzmon, D. Kitaenko, S. Sondezkis, R. Abbado, M. Shostakovich, J. Latham-Koenig,  Lu Jia and  V. Jurowsky.

Among his partners, to name but a few, have numbered the legendary Leonid Kogan, Igor Oistrach, Mischa Maisky, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Mario Brunello, Borodin Quartet and Philharmonia Quartet Berlin.

Boris Petrushansky is a member of jury of many international competition such as  “F. Busoni”  (Bolzano), “D. B. Viotti” (Vercelli), “A. Casagrande” (Terni), Tongyeong, Orlèans, Chopin in Warsaw, Paris etc. In addition to his concert life, Boris Petrushansky is active in teaching field: from 1975 he was teaching in Moscow Conservatory and now gives Masterclasses in the Royal Accademy of Dublin and London, the Royale College Music of London, Rowan University of U.S.A (New Jersey), and in many cityes of Italy and Japan. He is now resident in Italy and since 1990 has held a position at the Academia Pianistica “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola.