Beginning his artistic career at the age of fifteen, Israeli born Arie Vardi went on to receive international acclaim as one of the country’s foremost pianists. After winning the Chopin Competition in Israel, he appeared with the Israel Philharmonic...
Born in former Yugoslavia in 1954, German pianist Robert Benz received his first piano lessons from his father at the age of four. After being taught by Naoyuki Taneda at the University of Music Karlsruhe, where he also graduated in conducting, Robert...
Norma Fisher is acclaimed internationally as one of the UK’s leading pianists and teachers. As a child she was recognised as ‘a rare musical talent’ winning an exhibition, at the age of eleven, to study with Sidney Harrison at the Guildhall School of...
In the summer of 2000 Filippo Gamba won the First Prize at the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich. The Jury, chaired by Vladimir Ashkenazy, awarded him also the Mozart Prize for the best performance of the Mozart’s piano concerto. Filippo Gamba had already...
Anna Malikova was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she received her first piano lessons with Tamara Popovich. She studied in Moscow with Lev Naumov at the Central Music School and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, from where she graduated in 1991....