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Frédéric
Chopin
Solo
Piano Works
Vassily Primakov, pianist
Vassily Primakov made his New York concerto debut
in May 2004 at Alice Tully Hall with Rachmaninoff's
second piano concerto, and a New York Times review
exclaimed that it was a "fiery performance…with
bold, expressive phrasing and dramatic commitment
that brought the audience to its feet."
 Audience
uproar has become a hallmark of Primakov performances,
which incorporate dazzling, nearly superhuman
passion with sensitive poetry. In Santa Barbara,
California, where Mr. Primakov has been adopted
as a "musical son," no one will forget
his riveting performance of the final movement
of the Rachmaninoff third piano concerto during
the Music Academy of the West's 1997 "Concerto
Night." It was a musical tour de force so
dazzling that the audience exploded, and local
patrons of the arts immediately took Mr. Primakov
to their hearts. The pianist returned to Santa
Barbara soon after to perform the entire concerto
with the Santa Barbara Symphony orchestra.
Vassily Primakov began his U.S. career after
capturing First Prize in the 2002 Young Concert
Artists International Auditions. His debut recitals
in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York
at the 92nd Street Y, sponsored by the Peter P.
Marino Prize, as well as in Kennedy Center, Washington
D.C., and Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
immediately brought him rave reviews. Mr. Primakov
has performed recitals and as concerto soloist
throughout the States, including appearances with
the San Diego Symphony, the Maryland Symphony,
the Utah Symphony, the Westchester Philharmonic
and the Yakima Symphony among many others.
At the YCA Auditions, Mr. Primakov was awarded
many special prizes, including the Slomovic Orchestral
Prize, the John and Esther Browning Memorial Prize,
the Paul A. Fish Prize, and appearances with the
La Jolla Chamber Music Society and at the Usedom
Festival in Germany. He won prizes in the Cleveland
International Piano Competition (1999) as well
as the Silver Medal and Audience Prize at the
2002 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano
Competition. Mr. Primakov is also the recipient
of a Susan W. Rose Career Grant, and today performs
widely across the United States in solo recital
and with orchestra.
Born in Moscow in l979, Mr. Primakov entered
the American music scene in 1997, at the age of
17, as a student of Jerome Lowenthal at The Juilliard
School in New York and later that summer in Santa
Barbara at the Music Academy of the West. His
early music studies were with his mother, Marina
Primakova, who still teaches piano today in Moscow.
At the age of 11, he entered Moscow's Central
Special Music School, and during these years,
from 1990 to 1996, he played concerts in Russia,
France, Switzerland, Germany, and Romania. By
the time he was 15 years old, Mr. Primakov had
won First Prize in the Rachmaninoff International
Young Artist Competition and the Tchaikovsky Young
Artist Competition in Russia.
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