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Boris Petrushansky
A grand rentrée for a great performer who returns to play in Messina after an absence lasting twenty five years. An enfant prodige , Boris Petrushansky was admitted to the Moscow Conservatory when he was fifteen years old, and where he met one of the greatest musicians and teachers of our times, Heinrich Neuhaus, becoming his last pupil also assimilating the performing and interpretive rules of a school that trained artists such as Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels. His appearance on the international scene was marked by winning the Leeds (1969), Munich (1970), Moscow (1971), and Terni “Casagrande” competitions (1975), and also by many recordings also being a member of panels judging prestigious piano competitions. Nowadays he lives in Italy where he teaches at the Imola Piano Academy. The faithful guardian of the Russian school's romantic traditions, for the Filarmonica Laudamo's 85 th season's opening concert, Boris Petrushansky based his performance on the theme of ‘imagination' with passages from Chopin, Liszt and Skrjabin. |
