Dmitry Paperno (1929 in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

– 2020 in Northbrook, IL) was a Soviet and American concert pianist. In 1955, Paperno won 6th Prize in the

V International Chopin Piano Competition The V International Chopin Piano Competition ( pl, V Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) was held from 21 February to 20 March 1955 in Warsaw. The competition was won by Adam Harasiewicz of Poland. The competition was he ...

, and then recorded and performed widely under the Soviet regime. He attended the

Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...

where he studied under Alexander Goldenweiser. Paperno recorded for

Melodiya Melodiya ( rus, links=no, Мелодия, t=Melody) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) record label. It was the state-owned major record company of the Soviet Union. History Melodiya was established in 1964 as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm ...

and prior to recording with

Cedille Records Cedille Records () is the independent record label of the Chicago Classical Recording Foundation. History In 1989, James Steven Ginsburg, James Ginsburg, the son of Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice of th ...

. Paperno became a tenured professor at

DePaul University DePaul University is a private university, private, Catholic higher education, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-centu ...

after moving to the United States in 1976. He is the author of the book ''Notes of a Moscow Pianist''.

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Artist profile at bach-cantatas.comCedille Records biography
1929 births Living people Ukrainian classical pianists Soviet emigrants to the United States DePaul University faculty Russian classical pianists Male classical pianists Moscow Conservatory alumni Prize-winners of the International Chopin Piano Competition Musicians from Kyiv Cedille Records artists {{Ukraine-classical-pianist-stub