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Russian-Israeli classical pianist
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- 21st-century classical music, contemporary classical music
- Soviet Union, Israel
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2021-10-08 10:20:03
Beyond Boundaries: Dmitri Alexeev & Friends In Memory of Dmitri Bashkirov
The Russian pianist and teacher Dmitri Bashkirov died in March this year, he was 89. He had had a long and distinguished career though perhaps his name is not as well known as it should be. In addition to his pianistic career, which included winning the Marguerite Long Piano Competition in Paris in 1955, he had a long career as a teacher, first in Moscow and then in Madrid, where his pupils included Dmitri Alexeev, Arcadi Volodos, Nikolai Demidenko, his daughter Elena Bashkirova, Kirill Gerstein and many more. Now, under the title Beyond Boundaries: Dmitri Alexeev & Friends In Memory of Dmitri Bashkirov, Bashkirov's friends, pupils and grand-pupils are coming together in a series of concerts to honour his memory at St John's Smith Square and the Royal College of Music from 23 October to 21 November 2021. The first concert features Dmitri Alexeev's former pupils from the Royal College of […]
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2021-08-06 09:33:37
Just in: Jerusalem calls off big-name festival
Elena Bashkirova, who is married to Daniel Barenboim,... The post Just in: Jerusalem calls off big-name festival appeared first on Slipped Disc.
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2020-10-22 09:57:53
Mendelssohn gets a Barenboim connection
The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation in Leipzig has named Elena Bashkirova as its new president. An outstanding pianist, Bashkirova is artistic director of the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, wjich she founded in 1998. She is married to Daniel Barenboim and has two musician sons of that name. The foundation also has a new managing […]
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2018-08-28 08:20:25
The secret music of Warsaw’s Jewish criminals
There’s an icebreaking concert coming up at Jerusalem’s International Chamber Music Festival – artistic director Elena Bashkirova – in which the National Library musicologist Gila Flam has unearthed the lost music of Jewish gangsters in old Warsaw, before the War. It includes burglar songs, brothel songs, prison songs, all human life. Who knew?
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