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Valery Afanassiev was born in Moscow in 1947. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Jacob Zac and subsequently Emile Gilels. He won the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1968 and the Reine Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1972. In 1974 he requested political asylum in Belgium and currently lives in Versailles, France. Since that time he has given concerts all over Europe as well as the United States and Japan.
Valery Afanassiev has made twenty albums for Denon, writing his own program notes for them with the aim to give …

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Born in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), Irina Mejoueva started the piano at the age of five. In 1990 she moved to Moscow to study with Prof. Vladimir Tropp at the Gnessin Special Music School. In 1992 she played a Mozart concerto in a TV programme presenting young musicians in Nijmegen (the Netherlands). In October of the same year she won the first prize at the Eduard Flipse International Competition in Rotterdam. Her success in this event was followed by numerous solo recitals and concerto performances with orchestras in the Netherlands, Germany …

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Steuart Pincombe is currently pursuing a B.M. in modern cello and a M.M. in viola da gamba and baroque cello at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studies with Darrett Adkins and Catharina Meints. Prior to his studies at Oberlin, Steuart was a member of the Springfield Symphony (Missouri), and electric cellist of the Humours, an experimental music ensemble. As a modern cellist, Steuart has performed as soloist with several Mid-West orchestras and has collaborated in chamber concerts with several renowned artists including violinist Mark Peskanov, violist Peter Slowik, …

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Yana Reznik is a versatile concert pianist with a modern view on presenting classical music. An ambassador and humanitarian for the arts, Ms. Reznik holds the belief that it is within each of us as a people to bring our talents to bear in the culture that we live in, that we have a responsibility to effect positive change in our society, and to be instrumental in creating a more inspiring and fulfilling cultural life both locally and globally.
Michael Walsh of Time Magazine wrote of her that “having heard …

Author of the best-selling book on Temperament and the soon-to-be published book about the piano, journalist for the likes of the Wall Street Journal, professor at SUNY Purchase, lecturer around the world including the Metropolitan Museum series, the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Miami Piano Festival, adored all over Italy, musician, pianist, and teller of tales, meet Stuart Isacoff– here to make our lives a little richer.
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Stuart Isacoff, a pianist and composer, is founding editor of the magazine Piano Today, Executive Editor of Sheet Music Magazine and a …