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Russian pianist (1905-1965)
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2022-06-13 17:40:21
Victor Yampolsky takes one final bow Conducting his last concerts after 38 years, Yampolsky was cheered by crowds of students, alumni and fans June 6, 2022 | By Stephanie Kulke On the weekend of June 4, Northwestern students, alumni, faculty, staff and music patrons gathered in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall to celebrate Victor Yampolsky’s final concerts as […]
2021-11-05 19:43:44
Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music has announced that Victor Yampolsky, the school's Carol F. and Arthur L. Rice Jr. Professor in Music Performance, will retire at the end of the academic year. Yampolsky is currently the school's Director of Orchestras, and also serves as the Music Director of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-04-21 00:08:00
San Francisco Classical Voice: Roderick Cox Blazes His Own Trail
Roderick CoxSan Francisco Classical Voice Victoria Looseleaf on April 19, 2021 Born in Macon, Georgia, Roderick Cox became enamored of music as a child attending the Seventh Day Adventist Church, where his mother sang in the choir. Taking up the French horn, he eventually attended the Schwob School of Music at Columbia State University before attending Northwestern University and graduating with a master’s degree in conducting in 2011. Studying with Mallory Thompson and Victor Yampolsky, Cox, an African American, has since seen his star rise in this very competitive field. Indeed, as the winner of the 2018 Georg Solti Conducting Award from the U.S. Solti Foundation, 33-year-old Cox, who is based in Berlin, has been praised as a conductor who is “paving the way” (NBC News), with the Minnesota Star Tribune hailing him as a “trailblazer […]
2020-11-09 14:50:46
Couperin and more, 2020
[…] century was born 120 years ago, on November 14th of 1900 in Brooklyn, New York. Two Russian string players were born on November 14th: the violinist Leonid Kogan in 1924 and the cellist Natalia Gutman in 1942. Kogan is rightly considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. He was born in Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro, Ukraine) into a Jewish family. He moved to Moscow to study with the famed violin teacher Abram Yampolsky. Kogan started widely performing at the age of 17. In 1951 he won the Queen Elizabeth Competition. In 1955 Leonid Kogan made his debuts in Paris and London and in 1957 – in the US. He has taught at the Moscow Conservatory since 1952. In the 1950s Kogan, Emil Gilels and Mstislav Rostropovich formed a very successful trio (Kogan and Gilels collaborated often, and Kogan married Emil’s sister, Elisaveta). Here’s the recording of Bach’s […]
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