 | This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification .(December 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) |
| This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification .(December 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) |
Aglaia Koras made her debut at age eleven with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Mentored by Greek pianist Gina Bachauer, Koras studied, as a full-scholarship recipient, at the Curtis Institute of Music with Rudolf Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski, [1] who was associated with Pablo Casals.
Koras completed her Bachelor of Music Degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1979 and her Master of Music Degree from Temple University in 1981, where she served simultaneously as a faculty member.
Koras' international solo career has included solo performances at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, [2] Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, DC., [3] and solo performances in France, England, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, and Canada.
Koras has performed throughout the United States. Her appearances as guest soloist include the San Francisco Symphony, the Sacramento Symphony, [4] the Columbus Symphony, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Denver Chamber Orchestra, the Queens Philharmonia, the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Berkeley Promenade Orchestra, and the California Youth Symphony Orchestra. She has performed as guest soloist with conductors JoAnn Falletta, Arthur Fiedler, Harry Newstone, Carter Nice, Paul Polivnick, Michael Nowak, Verne Sellin, among others.
Performances include Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, DC., the Phillips Gallery in Washington, DC, Lisner Auditorium, Strathmore Hall, American University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, WHYY Radio Philadelphia, Temple University, University of Toronto, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Southern California, El Camino College, Metropolitan College, WETA Radio, KVOD Radio Denver, Fort Worth, Texas, Brigham Young University in Utah, Brazilian Radio, Spanish television, concerts in England, France, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, and Canada.
Since 2006, Koras has performed twice yearly at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, where she has presented world premiere performances by living composers, as well as cycles by Beethoven, Chopin, and works by a wide variety of composers.
Koras won first prize in the American Music Scholarship Association International Piano Competition in Cincinnati, first prize in the International Chopin Young Pianists Competition in Buffalo, New York; first prize in the National Young Musicians Foundation Competition in Los Angeles; "Fine Artistry and Musical Excellence Award" from the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York; finalist in the Chopin Koszciusko Competition in New York; La Gesse Foundation Fellow of France; and winner of the Ruth Slenczynska Award for Piano, among other prizes.
Discography includes her 2005 CD "Aglaia", which features works by Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Prokofieff, and Samuel Barber, and her 2004 CD "Richard Strauss Burlesk for Piano Solo and Orchestra in D minor", among other recordings.
Ruth Laredo was an American classical pianist.
Fei-Ping Hsu was a Chinese-American pianist.
Adolovni Acosta is a Philippine-born classical pianist. Acosta is the daughter of Guillermo and Ernestina Acosta. She is a notable concert pianist and recitalist.
Ronald Turini is a Canadian pianist, and the first Canadian artist to win a prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and the Geneva International Music Competition.
Aimi Kobayashi is a Japanese classical pianist.
Igor Lovchinsky is a Russian-American pianist and physicist.
Pavel Gintov is a classical pianist. Gintov currently studies with acclaimed Professor Nina Svetlanova at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he is now completing his Doctoral studies.
Nimrod David Pfeffer is an Israeli-born conductor and pianist residing in New York City.
Haochen Zhang is a Chinese pianist from Shanghai, China. He was a Gold Medalist and First Prize winner of the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, becoming one of the youngest winners in the history of the competition. Zhang received a 2017 Avery Fisher Career Grant in recognition of his outstanding talents.
Yoonjung "Yoonie" Han is a South Korean-born American classical pianist.
Marina Piccinini is an Italian American virtuoso flautist. She is noted for her performances of compositions by Mozart and Bach, and has performed with many of the world's top orchestras and conductors.
Daniil Olegovich Trifonov is a Russian pianist and composer. Described by The Globe and Mail as "arguably today's leading classical virtuoso" and by The Times as "without question the most astounding pianist of our age", Trifonov's honors include a Grammy Award win in 2018 and the Gramophone Classical Music Awards' Artist of the Year Award in 2016. The New York Times has noted that "few artists have burst onto the classical music scene in recent years with the incandescence" of Trifonov. He has performed as soloist with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony and the Munich Philharmonic, and has given solo recitals in such venues as Royal Festival Hall, Carnegie Hall, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Berliner Philharmonie, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Concertgebouw, and the Seoul Arts Center.
Steven Lewis Graff is a pianist and teacher of music in New York City.
Klara Yu-Kyoung Min is a South Korean-born classical pianist. She has performed in North America, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and her native South Korea in such venues as New York's Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Barge Music, Gasteig Hall in Munich, Berlin Philharmonie Hall, and KBS Broadcast hall in Seoul.
Ching-Yun Hu is a Taiwanese born classical pianist, winner of the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Founder and Artistic Director Yun-Hsiang International Music Festival in Taipei and Winner of the 2012 Golden Melody Award for Best Classical Album.
Kariné Poghosyan is an Armenian pianist residing in New York City. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 14 playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1, and her solo Carnegie Hall debut at 23, and has since gone on to win numerous awards as well as perform in some of the world's most prestigious concert halls.
Hélène Tysman is a prizewinning French classical pianist. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Pierre-Laurent Aimard and later with Oleg Maisenberg in Vienna. She obtained her master's degree at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar under the guidance of Grigory Gruzman. Since becoming a laureate of the 16th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Tysman has emerged as one of the leading French pianists of her generation.
Chia-Hui Lu is a Taiwanese classical pianist.
Hai-Kyung Suh is a South Korean classical pianist living in New York. She is known for her rich, round tone, and singing voice-like phrasing, characteristics of the Romantic style of piano playing that was predominant in the Golden Age of pianism.
Vladimir Milošević is a Serbian concert pianist. Proclaimed as “one of the most prominent Serbian pianists of his generation,” Milošević's honors include winning numerous international competitions, such as the 2013 Rising Artist Concerto Presentation by the New York Concert Artists & Associates, Concerti in Villa, Nikolai Rubinstein, Rencontre internationale de piano au Mée-sur-Seine, and Torneo internazionale di musica in Marseille.
 | This article needs additional or more specific categories .(April 2021) |