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Ainhoa Mendizábal Vicente
Ainhoa Mendizábal Vicente is a spanish pianist.
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia and a resident of the United Kingdom. He is also a poet and author.
Brendel was born in Wiesenberg, Czechoslovakia, now Loučná nad Desnou, Czech Republic, to a...
Alicia de Larrocha
Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle (23 May 1923 – 25 September 2009) was a Spanish pianist from Catalonia. One of the great piano legends of the 20th century, Reuters called her "the greatest Spanish pianist in history", Time "one of the world's most...
Ana Huerta Carrillo
Ana Huerta Carrillo y a Spanish pianist and singer.
Angelica Mansilla
Comienza sus estudios musicales a la edad de ocho años, obteniendo los Títulos Superiores de Piano y Música de Cámara por el Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, interpretando en el concierto fin de carrera el Concierto para Piano y...
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein (January 28, 1887 – December 20, 1982) was a Polish-American classical pianist who received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers; many regard him as the greatest Chopin interpreter of...
Claudio Arrau
Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean-American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt,...
Emil Gilels
Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (Ukrainian: Емі́ль Григо́рович Гі́лельс, Russian: Эми́ль Григо́рьевич Ги́лельс, Emiľ Grigoriević Gileľs; October 19, 1916 – October 14, 1985) was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th...
Garrick Ohlsson
Garrick Ohlsson (born April 3, 1948 in New York) is an American classical pianist.
Ohlsson was the first American to win first prize in the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition, in 1970. He also won first prize at the Busoni Competition...
Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of...
Ivo Pogorelić
Ivo Pogorelić (born 20 October 1958) is a Croatian pianist.
He was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia, to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother. (Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Pogorelić became a Croatian citizen.) He received his first...
Joaquín Soriano
Joaquín Soriano (born in León, 1941) is a Spanish pianist.
Trained in Valencia, he was a disciple of Vlado Perlemuter at the Conservatoire National de Paris. He won the 1965 Viotti Competition in Vercelli and the XI Premio de Jaén (1966); an...
José Carreras
Josep Maria Carreras i Coll (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛp kəˈreɾəs]; born 5 December 1946), better known as José Carreras (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse kaˈreɾas]), is a Spanish Catalan tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas...
Juan José Burred Sendino
Juan José Burred Sendino is a spanish pianist.
He teaches piano at the conservatory.
He teaches piano at the conservatory.
Krystian Zimerman
Krystian Zimerman (born December 5, 1956) is a Polish classical pianist who has been hailed as one of the finest living pianists.
Zimerman was born in Zabrze, Poland, and studied at the University of Music in Katowice under Andrzej Jasiński. His...
Lazar Berman
Lazar Naumovich Berman (Russian: Лазарь Наумович Берман, Lazarʹ Naumovič Berman; February 26, 1930 – February 6, 2005) was a Soviet Russian classical pianist. As a technician, Berman was extraordinary in terms of sheer evenness, control, and...
Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time. He made...
Maria-João Pires
Maria João Pires (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐˈɾiɐ ʒuˈɐ̃w ˈpiɾɨʃ]; born in Lisbon, Portugal, July 23, 1944) is a Portuguese pianist.
Her first recital was at the age of five, and at the age of seven she was already playing Mozart Piano Concertos...
Mariana Gurkova
Mariana Dimitrova Gurkova-Franco is a Bulgarian pianist, born in Sofia. Gurkova, who nowadays is a naturalised Spanish citizen, settled in Madrid in 1988. A former head professor at Badajoz's Conservatory, she is a teacher at Madrid's Real...
Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine pianist.
Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three (the provenance of the name Argerich is uncertain: some say it is Catalan, while...
Mikhail Pletnev
Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev (Russian: Михаил Васильевич Плетнёв - Mikhail Vasil'evič Pletnëv; born 14 April 1957) is a Russian pianist, conductor, and composer.
Pletnev was born into a musical family in Arkhangelsk, then part of the Soviet Union;...
Mitsuko Uchida
Dame Mitsuko Uchida, DBE (内田光子), born 20 December 1948, is a Japanese naturalized British classical pianist.
Born in Atami, a seaside town close to Tokyo, Japan, Uchida moved to Vienna, Austria, with her diplomat parents when she was twelve years...
Nikita Magaloff
Nikita Magaloff (Russian: Никита Магалов) (21 February [O.S. 8 February] 1912 – 26 December 1992) was a Georgian-Russian pianist.
He was born in Saint Petersburg to a Georgian noble family named Maghalashvili. Magaloff and his family left Russia in...
Pascal Rogé
Pascal Rogé (Paris, 6 April 1951) is a French pianist. His playing includes the works of compatriot composers Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and Poulenc, among others. However, his repertoire also covers the German masters Haydn, Mozart,...
Plácido Domingo
Plácido Domingo KBE (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈplaθiðo ðoˈmiŋɡo]; born 21 January 1941), born José Plácido Domingo Embil, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its...
Rafał Blechacz
Rafał Blechacz (pronounced [ˈrafaw ˈblɛxat͡ʂ] ( listen); born June 30, 1985 Nakło n. Notecią, Poland) is a Polish classical pianist.
On October 21, 2005, he became the sole recipient of all five first prizes at the 15th International Frederick...
Stevie Wonder
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Teresa Berganza
Teresa Berganza, born on March 16, 1935), is a Spanish mezzo-soprano. She is most closely associated with the roles of Rossini, Mozart, and Bizet. She is admired for her technical virtuosity, musical intelligence and beguiling stage presence.
Teresa...
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (Russian: Владимир Давидович Ашкенази, Vladimir Davidovič Aškenazi; born July 6, 1937) is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since...
Wilhelm Kempff
Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991) was a German pianist and composer. Although his repertory included Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of...
Zoltán Kocsis
Zoltán Kocsis (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈzoltaːn ˈkotʃiʃ]) (born May 30, 1952) is a Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer.
Born in Budapest, he started his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conservatory...
