 |
Ran Dank | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 April 1982 Israel |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Piano |
Ran Dank (born 3 April 1982) is an American-Israeli classical pianist, who currently lives in New York and teaches at the Eastman School of Music.
|
Ran Dank | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 April 1982 Israel |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Piano |
Ran Dank (born 3 April 1982) is an American-Israeli classical pianist, who currently lives in New York and teaches at the Eastman School of Music.
Dank started playing the piano at the age of seven with Yaakov Krantz. He went on to work with Liora Peleg at the Givaataim Conservatory, and from 1994 until 2002, he studied with Professor Vadim Monastirsky of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
From 2004 to 2005, Dank attended the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he received his BA in music, studying with Professor Emanuel Krasovsky.
In 2005–07, Dank left his native Israel for the first time, to study at the Juilliard School in New York. [1] Under the tutelage of Professors Emanuel Ax and Joseph Kalichstein, he was awarded his M.M degree in 2007.
In 2009, Dank graduated from the Juilliard School with an Artist Diploma degree, studying with Robert McDonald.
Dank received his Doctor of Music degree from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2014, having worked with pianists Richard Goode and Ursula Oppens.
Dank has given recitals and concerts in the US, Belgium, Poland, France, England, Germany, Finland, Russia and Australia, performing at prominent venues such as the Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the Peter Jay Sharp Theater in New York, Severance Hall in Cleveland, OH, the Glazunov Hall in Saint Petersburg, and the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
Dank has performed as a soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard School Orchestra, the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the Rishon Lezion Symphonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphonic Orchestra, and the Raanana Symphony Orchestra, amongst others.
Dank has taken part in numerous festivals, such as the Chopin Festival in Warsaw and Żelazowa Wola, performing works by Chopin and Liszt, and the Israel Festival with a complete Scriabin sonata cycle. He also played a variety of programs combining some piano rarities at the Mäntta Festival for Virtuoso Pianists, in Finland.
Dank has won virtually every major prize available for a young musician in his own country. He has been a recipient of an America Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship since 1992, and a special Scholarship for Studies Abroad. Prizes in competitions in Israel include the Voice of Music Competition, and first prize, the Rafi Goralnik Award, at the Aviv Competitions in 2002. This is considered the most important competition for musicians in Israel.
In 2006, Dank won the Gina Bachauer competition held at The Juilliard School, [1] and in 2007 he was the recipient of both the Arthur Rubinstein Prize and the 4th prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition. [2] In March 2008 Dank was awarded the grand prize of $15,000 and gold medal at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, resulting in different engagements including his debut recital in Carnegie Hall in the fall of 2008. In August 2008 Dank was awarded with the third prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition including special awards by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for the best performance of the two concertos in the final, and awards for the best performance of a work by Debussy and a work by Rachmaninov.
Most recently, Dank joined the roster of Young Concert Artists as a winner of the 2009 International Auditions.
| date | award | awarded by | location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | first prize | Juilliard Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition | New York City, New York City |
| 2007 | fourth prize | Cleveland International Piano Competition | Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| 2008 | third prize | Sydney International Piano Competition | Sydney |
| 2008 | first prize | Hilton Head International Piano Competition | Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA |
| 2009 | first prize | Young Concert Artists International Auditions | New York City, USA |
| 2010 | second prize [3] | Naumburg International Piano Competition | New York City, USA |
John O'Conor is an Irish pianist and pedagogue, and former director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Dong-Hyek Lim is a South Korean classical pianist. Lim has previously studied with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and received the Samsung Culture Scholarship and the Ezoe Scholarship. He currently studies with Emanuel Ax at the Juilliard School.
Konstantin Alekseyevich Soukhovetski was born into a family of artists, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Moscow Central School under the auspices of the Moscow Conservatory, where his special subjects also included composition and acting. He then studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, gaining his bachelor's degree in 2003 with the Anton Rubinstein Prize as an outstanding pianist. He received his Master's degree from Juilliard in 2005 with the support of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, and is in the Artist's diploma program at Juilliard, studying with Jerome Lowenthal. He was named winner of the William Petschek Piano Debut Recital Award for 2006. His NYC debut recital was on April 20, 2006 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
Emanuel "Manny"Ax is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is known for his chamber music collaborations with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinists Isaac Stern and Young Uck Kim, as well as his piano recitals and performances with major orchestras in the world.
Daejin Kim is a South Korean pianist, an alumnus of the Juilliard School. He won the first prize in the 6th Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition - which is called Cleveland Competition today, in 1985. Kim is a professor of piano, the Dean of the School of Music at the Korea National University of Arts, and the music director of the Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra.
Yaron Kohlberg is an Israeli pianist. He won prestigious international prizes and performs regularly on major stages worldwide. Beginning in 2018, Kohlberg is the President of the Cleveland International Piano Competition.
David Fung is a concert pianist. Fung was born in Sydney, Australia.
Peng-Peng Gong, formerly known as his stage name Peng Peng, is a Chinese classical composer and pianist born on July 3, 1992. Described by The Washington Post as an artist "with the confidence of a weathered veteran and a welcome unbridled quality to his playing", he has established himself as one of the most gifted young artists of his generation. At 18, he has become an internationally active concert pianist and a six-time American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers National Award-winning composer in consecutive years since 2006. He was among the youngest pianists to be officially signed to the artist roster of the renowned Opus 3 Artists in 2007 at age 14, and the youngest composer to be signed by the [Lauren Keiser Music Publishing] in 2009 at age 16. Since 2005, he concertized and toured intensely in the North America, South America, Europe, and China, appearing in over a hundred solo and orchestral engagements. He was invited twice, on personal request, by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to perform for the United States Congress.
Sean Eric Kennard is an American classical pianist.
Orion Weiss is an American classical pianist.
Ilya Itin is a Russian concert pianist residing in New York City.
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 Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, 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.
Ching-Yun "Charlotte" Hu is a Taiwanese-born American classical pianist. She won the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition and the 2012 Golden Melody Award for Best Classical Album. She founded Yun-Hsiang International Music Festival in Taipei.
Tony Yike Yang is a Canadian-Chinese pianist.
Eric Zuber is an American virtuoso pianist and pedagogue.
Kate Liu is a Singaporean American classical pianist. On October 20, 2015 she won the third prize and the Polish Radio Award for the best performance of mazurkas in the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland.
Henry Kramer is an American pianist.
Tiffany Poon is a Hong Kong-born American classical pianist and vlogger, residing in New York City.
Bruce Liu is a Canadian pianist. Born in Paris and raised in Montreal, he began to play the piano at eight years old and was performing by the age of eleven. In 2021, he rose to widespread renown after winning the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition.
Micah McLaurin is an American pianist.
• Colbert Artists Management, Inc.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
