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Petrushansky Boris
Boris Petrushansky was born in Moscow in 1949 to a family of musicians. At the age of eight he was admitted to the Central School of the Moscow Conservatory.

Boris Petrushansky è nato a Moscow nel 1949 da genitori musicisti. All’età di 8 anni viene ammesso alla Scuola Centrale presso il Conservatorio di Mosca.

Biography
In 1964 the fifteen-year-old pianist met one of the greatest musicians of our time,

Heinrich Neuhaus, and became his last pupil

. Those few months in Neuhaus’s class (the master died in October 1964) were decisive in many ways for the young artist’s subsequent development, which continued under Professor

Lev Naumov , Neuhaus’s pupil and assistant, a fine musician and faithful guardian of the romantic traditions of the school that gave the world Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter.. Quei non molti mesi trascorsi nella classe di Neuhaus (il maestro mori nell’Ottobre del 1964) sono stati determinanti sotto molti aspetti per tutto il successivo sviluppo del giovane artista completandosi sotto la direzione del Prof. Lev Naumov, allievo ed assistente di Neuhaus, un musicista fine, fedele custode delle tradizioni romantiche della scuola che ha dato al mondo Emil Gilels e Sviatoslav Richterì.

The three competitions (Leeds 1969, Munich 1970, Moscow 1971) were followed by a significant pause, devoted to preparing a new qualitative leap, which ended with victory at the
“Casagrande”
Competition in Terni in 1975, followed by a concert tour. The most notable events of this period were his concerts at the festivals of Spoleto and of Brescia and Bergamo, at the

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (where he replaced Sviatoslav Richter) and concerts in Rome, Milan, Turin and elsewhere. The orchestras he has played with include the USSR State Symphony Orchestra , the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Czechoslovak and Helsinki philharmonics, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Orchestra dell’“Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia”, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the KBS Symphony in Seoul, New European Strings and the Chamber Orchestra of the European Community. He has worked with conductorssuch as Ján Ferenčík, Ernest Bour, Paavo Berglund, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dmitri Kitaenko, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Anton Nanut, Lü Jia, Valery Gergiev, Roberto Abbado, Pavel Kogan, Vladimir Jurowski and Moshe Atzmon., Filarmonica di S.Pietroburgo, la Filarmonica di Mosca, della Cecoslovacchia, di Helsinki, la Staatskapelle di Berlino, l’“Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia”, l’Orchestra Filarmonica di Dresda, la Moscow Chamber Orchestra, la KBS di Seoul, New European Strings, Orchestra da Camera della Comunità Europea, ecc. Ha collaborato con i direttori d’orchestra come Janos Ferencik, Ernst Bour, Paavo Berglund, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dimitri Kitaenko, Vladimir Fedoseev, Anton Nanut, Lu Jia, Valeri Gergiev, Roberto Abbado, Pavel Kogan, Vladimir Jurowsky, Moshe Atzmon.

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His chamber music partners have included Leonid Kogan, Igor Oistrakh, Vladimir Afanasiev, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Mischa Maisky, Cecilia Gasdia, the Borodin Quartet and the Berliner Philharmonisches Quartett. Since 1991 Boris Petrushansky has
lived in Italy
, in Imola, where he teaches at the

“Incontri col Maestro” International Piano Academy . He continues a busy concert career in Italy and in Russia, to which he returns regularly, as well as in many European countries, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. He has recordeda number of CDsfor Melodiya (Russia), Art & Electronics (Russia-USA), Symposium (England), Foné, Dynamic, Agora and Stradivarius (Italy), for which he made thecomplete recording of the works for solo piano by Shostakovich registrazione integrale delle opere per pianoforte solo di Shostakivich.

Boris Petrushansky sits on the juries of the competitions of Terni, Vercelli, Bolzano, Tongyeong, Orléans, Kantum, the “Chopin” in Warsaw and others.

Boris Petrushansky è membro della giuria dei concorsi di Terni, Vercelli, Bolzano, Tongyeong, Orlèans, Kantum, lo “Chopin” di Warsaw, ecc.

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