Maxim Lando

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Maxim Lando (born October 5, 2002, in Manhasset, NY) is an American pianist.

Lando grew up in Great Neck on Long Island, New York. His parents, Pippa Borisy and Vadim Lando - a clarinetist and a pianist, run the Great Neck Music Conservatory there. He began playing the piano when he was three years old. At the age of ten, Lando began studying piano with Hung-Kuan Chen, first at a preparatory class at the New England Conservatory in Boston and then at the Juilliard School's Pre-College in New York. Since the age of eleven, he has been sponsored by the Lang Lang Foundation, which has taken him on concert tours to Spain, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom. [1]

In 2015, he became the first American to win first prize at the International Television Competition "The Nutcracker" for young musicians in Moscow. [2] That same year, he placed second at the Kissingen Piano Olympics competition. [3] In 2020, he was awarded the Gilmore Young Artist Award. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ New Artist of the Month: Pianist Maxim Lando, Musical America, 1. January 2020
  2. ↑ Maxim Lando, piano, From the Top 2016
  3. ↑ Doppelsieger, inFranken.de, 12. October 2015 (in German)
  4. ↑ Misha Galant and Maxim Lando Named 2020 Gilmore Young Artists, Broadwayworld, 5. September 2019
  5. ↑ Tiefgründiges Abenteuer, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 19 September 2022 (in German)
  6. ↑ International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announce the winners for 2023, ICMA, 18 January 2023


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