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VLADIMIR FELTSMAN,
piano
Born in Russia in 1952, Vladimir Feltsman made
his piano performance debut at age 11 with the
Moscow Philharmonic. He furthered his piano
training under the guidance of Jacob Flier at
Moscow’s Tchaikovsky State Conservatory of
Music beginning in 1969, later studying con-
ducting at the Moscow and Leningrad Conser-
vatories. Feltsman won the grand prize at the
Marguerite Long International Piano Competi-
tion in Paris in 1971, launching a touring career
throughout the former Soviet Union, Europe,
and Japan. Over these years, he grew increas-
ingly discontented with the Soviet regime’s ar-
tistic censorship, and in 1979 Feltsman applied
for an exit visa. Eight years later, finally granted
permission to leave the Soviet Union, Feltsman
arrived in the United States to a warm welcome
at the White House, where he gave his first
North American recital. He also made his Car-
negie Hall debut that year, setting the stage for
decades of performance programs in New York.
Between 1992 and 1996 Feltsman presented the
major keyboard works by Bach at the 92nd
Street Y, and in 2003 he served as artistic direc-
tor and primary performer on the Lincoln Cen-
ter’s “Masterpieces of the Russian Underground”
series, a survey of piano and chamber works by
14 different contemporary Russian composers,
from Shostakovich to present-day figures. In
2006 Feltsman performed all of Mozart’s pi-
ano sonatas at the Mannes College of Music,
where he is on the piano faculty. He is also on
the faculty of the State University of New York
at New Paltz, where he founded the three-week
PianoSummer festival. Feltsman’s discography
includes eight albums of Bach’s works, many
of Beethoven’s sonatas, solo works by Liszt and
Mussorgsky, and concertos by Rachmaninoff
and Prokofiev, as well as solo works and con-
certos by Brahms, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky. He
recently completed recording complete cycles of
Schubert’s sonatas and Schumann’s solo works
for the Nimbus label. Vladimir Feltsman made
his Ravinia debut in 1988 and returns tonight for
his 15th season at the festival.
4:45 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2018
PAVILION
LIVE FROM HERE
WITH CHRIS THILE
Live National Broadcast
featuring
GABY MORENO
Duets
THE FIRST-CALL RADIO PLAYERS
RICHARD DWORSKY
BRITTANY HAAS
PAUL KOWERT
JULIAN LAGE
MATT JOHNSON
OUR RADIO ACTING COMPANY
TIM RUSSELL
SERENA BROOK
FRED NEWMAN
Please note: Microphones within the theater pick up your applause and laughter as part of the
live radio broadcast. Please turn off your pagers, cellphones, and watch alarms. They are audible
over the air. Unauthorized video or audio recording of
Live From Here
is not permitted.
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