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pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

s of whom recordings survive who play (or played)

classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...

. For a more inclusive list not limited to recorded pianists, see also '' List of classical pianists'' (solo pianists) and '' List of classical piano duos (performers)'' (piano duos, trios, etc.).

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* Behzod Abduraimov *

Jacques Abram Jacques Abram (August 6, 1915 – October 5, 1998), born Jack Gregory Abram, an American classical pianist, was born in Lufkin, Texas and died in Tampa, Florida. Abram began improvising at age 3 and performing in public at age 6. As a youth ...

Dag Achatz Dag Achatz is a Swedish pianist and composer. Born in Stockholm in 1942 of a Swedish mother and a Viennese father, both musicians, he was raised in Switzerland, where he entered the Geneva Conservatory at age of 8. Graduating with honors, he con ...

Joaquín Achúcarro Joaquín Achúcarro (born November 1, 1932) is a Basque Spanish classical pianist. Biography and career Achúcarro was born in Bilbao, Spain, and grew up in the difficult years of the Spanish post-war period. He began piano lessons at the Bilba ...

Adolovni Acosta Adolovni Acosta (born 1946) is a Philippine-born classical pianist. Acosta is the daughter of Guillermo and Ernestina Acosta. She is a notable concert pianist and recitalist. Training and Education in Manila Adolovni Acosta started piano lessons ...

Daniel Adni Daniel Adni (born 6 December 1951) is an Israeli classical pianist. He began his training in Haifa, where he made his debut at age 12. He studied with Vlado Perlemuter at the Paris Conservatory, winning the Premier Prix 3 times. Afterwards he st ...

Adrian Aeschbacher Adrian Aeschbacher (10 May 1912 in Langenthal, Switzerland – 9 November 2002 in Zurich) was a Swiss classical pianist. His father was Carl Aeschbacher. His youth was spent at Trogen where his father was professor of piano at the Conservatoi ...

* Valery Afanassiev *

Guido Agosti Guido Agosti (11 August 19012 June 1989) was an Italian pianist and piano teacher. Agosti was born in Forlì in 1901. He studied piano with Ferruccio Busoni, Bruno Mugellini and Filippo Ivaldi, earning his diploma at age 13. He studied counterp ...

Soojin Ahn Soo-jin, also spelled Su-jin or Sue-jin, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 67 hanja with the reading " soo" and 48 hanja with the reading "jin" on the South Kor ...

Pierre-Laurent Aimard Pierre-Laurent Aimard (born 9 September 1957) is a French pianist. Biography Aimard was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod and with Maria Curcio. In 1973, he was awarded the chamber music priz ...

Webster Aitken Webster Aitken (June 17, 1908 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada – May 11, 1981 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American pianist. He studied piano in Europe with Artur Schnabel and Emil von Sauer. In 1929, he made his professional debut in Vi ...

Nelly Akopian-Tamarina Nelly Akopian-Tamarina (born in Moscow) is a Russian pianist. Akopian-Tamarina had performed Haydn concertos publicly with orchestras by age 9. She studied with Anaida Sumbatyan at the Moscow Central Music School. At the Moscow Conservatory she ...

* Giuseppe Albanese * Isaac Albéniz * Eugen d'Albert * Charlie Albright * Dimitri Alexeev * Victor Aller * Ilse von Alpenheim * Louis Demetrius Alvanis * Donna Amato *

Géza Anda Géza Anda (; 19 November 192113 June 1976) was a Swiss- Hungarian pianist. A celebrated interpreter of classical and romantic repertoire, particularly noted for his performances and recordings of Mozart, he was also considered to be a tremendou ...

Piotr Anderszewski Piotr Anderszewski () (born 1969) is a Polish pianist and composer. Biographical background Anderszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland. His father's family was part of Poland's aristocracy while his mother came from a Jewish Hungarian family. He s ...

* Leif Ove Andsnes *

Nicholas Angelich Nicholas Michael Angelich (December 14, 1970 – April 18, 2022) was an American pianist. He was noted for performing internationally with ensembles from Europe and North America. Early life Angelich was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 14 ...

* Agustin Anievas *

Eteri Andjaparidze Eteri Andjaparidze (born September 15, 1956) is a Georgian / American pianist and music professor. Early life Born on September 15, 1956, to a family of musicians in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Andjaparidze received her first piano lessons fr ...

Conrad Ansorge Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge (15 October 1862 – 13 February 1930) was a German pianist, teacher and composer. He was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1 ...

Anton Arensky Anton Stepanovich Arensky (russian: Анто́н Степа́нович Аре́нский; – ) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music. Biography Arensky was born into an affluent, music-loving ...

* Martha Argerich *

Nareh Arghamanyan Nareh Arghamanyan ( hy, Նարե Արղամանյան; born in Vanadzor, Armenia, 1989) is an Armenian pianist. She is best known for winning the 2008 Montreal International Musical Competition. Biography Arghamanyan began her piano studies at t ...

Kit Armstrong Kit Armstrong ( zh, c=周善祥, p=Zhōu Shànxiáng, born March 5, 1992) is an American classical pianist, composer, and former child prodigy of British-Taiwanese parentage. Education Armstrong was born in Los Angeles into a non-musical famil ...

Yvonne Arnaud Germaine Yvonne Arnaud (20 December 1890 – 20 September 1958) was a French-born pianist, singer and actress, who was well known for her career in Britain, as well as her native land. After beginning a career as a concert pianist as a child, Ar ...

* Claudio Arrau *

Lydia Artymiw Lydia Artymiw is native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and an American concert pianist and Emerita Distinguished McKnight Professor of Piano in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. Formative years Artymiw was born in Philad ...

Şahan Arzruni Şahan Arzruni ( hy, Շահան Արծրունի; born 8 June 1943) is an Armenian classical pianist, ethnomusicologist, lecturer, composer, writer and producer, residing in New York City. Early life and education Arzruni (also transliterated ...

Stefan Askenase Stefan Askenase (10 July 189618 October 1985) was a Polish-Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue. Biography Askenase was born in Lviv, then known as Lemberg, into a Jewish family. At the age of five he began playing the piano with his mothe ...

Vladimir Ashkenazy Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (russian: Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи, ''Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi''; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He ...

* Winifred Atwell * Lera Auerbach * Håkon Austbø *

Myriam Avalos Myriam Avalos (Avalos-Teie) (born Lima, Peru) is a classical pianist. Life She began to study the piano at age two. She gave her first public performance at age three, and shortly after that was admitted to the National Conservatory of Music in ...

Yulianna Avdeeva Yulianna Andreevna Avdeeva (russian: Юлиа́нна Андре́евна Авде́ева; born 3 July 1985) is a Russian concert classical pianist who has performed and recorded internationally. Life and career Avdeeva was born in Moscow. Sh ...

* Emanuel Ax

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* Sergei Babayan *

Stanley Babin Stanley Babin (1932-2010) was a composer and pianist. Life Babin was born in 1932 to Lydia and David Babin, a rabbi. He had four siblings. The family emigrated to Tel Aviv in 1933 where he studied music with Frank Pelleg and made his official d ...

* Victor Babin *

Gina Bachauer Gina Bachauer (Greek: Τζίνα Μπαχάουερ; May 21, 1910, AthensAugust 22, 1976, Athens), was a Greek classical pianist who toured extensively in the United States and Europe. Interested in piano at a young age, Bachauer graduated from t ...

Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl (15 October 188521 June 1959) was a Norwegian pianist, composer and music teacher. Biography Backer-Grøndahl was born in Christiania (later Oslo) in 1885, the son of the conductor and singing teacher Olaus Andreas Grøn ...

Wilhelm Backhaus Wilhelm Backhaus ('Bachaus' on some record labels) (26 March 1884 – 5 July 1969) was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much ...

* Paul Badura-Skoda *

Ryszard Bakst Ryszard Bakst (4 April 1926 – 25 March 1999) was a Polish pianist and distinguished piano teacher. Background Bakst was a descendant of the Russian artist Léon Bakst. His teachers were initially his mother and pianist Józef Turczyńsk ...

Dalton Baldwin Dalton Baldwin (December 19, 1931 – December 12, 2019) was an American accompanist. He made more than 100 recordings and won numerous prizes, working with outstanding singers such as Gérard Souzay, Elly Ameling, Arleen Auger, and Jessye Norman. ...

Ernő Balogh Ernő Balogh (4 April 1897, Budapest – died 2 June 1989, Mitchellville, Maryland) was a United States-based Hungarian-born pianist, composer, editor, and teacher. Biography Balogh attended the Budapest Conservatory from 1905 to 1917. His teac ...

Artur Balsam Artur Balsam (February 8, 1906 – September 1, 1994) was a Polish-born American classical pianist and pedagogue. Biography He was born in Warsaw, Poland, and studied in Łódź, making his debut there at the age of 12 then enrolled at the Berlin ...

Volker Banfield Volker Banfield (born 9 May 1944, Oberaudorf, Bavaria) is a German classical pianist.Jeremy Siepmann, "Banfield, Volker" in Sadie, Stanley; John Tyrrell, eds. (2001). ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 2nd edition. New York: Grov ...

Joseph Banowetz Joseph Murray Banowetz (December 5, 1934 – July 3, 2022) was an American pianist, pedagogue, author, and editor, who taught at the University of North Texas. Banowetz was an expert on the music of the Russian romantic composer Anton Rubinstein ...

Pierre Barbizet Pierre Barbizet (20 September 1922 – 19 January 1990) was a 20th-century French pianist. Barbizet was born in Arica, Chile, and died in Marseille. 1922 births 1990 deaths 20th-century French male classical pianists Chevaliers of the L� ...

Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim (; in he, דניאל בארנבוים, born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. He has been since 1992 General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeist ...

Simon Barere Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...

David Bar-Illan David Bar-Illan (February 7, 1930 – November 5, 2003) was an Israeli pianist, author and newspaper editor. Biography Bar-Illan was born in Haifa during the Mandate era, and studied music at the Dona Weizman Conservatory. At age 17, he won a sch ...

Trevor Barnard Trevor John Barnard (born 3 January 1938) is a British-born Australian pianist and teacher. Life and career Trevor John Barnard was born in London in 1938. He entered the Royal Academy of Music at a young age, followed by private study with Herb ...

Rami Bar-Niv Rami Bar-Niv ( he, רמי בר-ניב; born December 1, 1945 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine) is an Israeli pianist, composer, author, and instructor of master classes. Bar-Niv is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he st ...

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...

* Dimitri Bashkirov *

Elena Bashkirova Elena Dmitrievna Bashkirova (russian: Елена Дмитриевна Башкирова; born 1958) is a Russian-born Israeli pianist and musical director. Bashkirova was born in Moscow, the daughter of pianist and teacher Dimitri Bashkirov. She ...

* Edmund Battersby * Harold Bauer *

Paul Baumgartner Paul Baumgartner (21 July 1903 – 19 October 1976) was a Swiss pianist. Born in Altstätten, Switzerland, he studied piano and composition with Walter Braunfels in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and with Eduard Erdmann in Köln ...

* Jean-Efflam Bavouzet *

Alessio Bax Alessio Bax (born 1977 in Bari) is an Italian classical pianist. He graduated from the Bari conservatory at the record age of 14. He won the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan at age 19 and the Leeds International Pianoforte Compet ...

Mark Bebbington Mark Bebbington (born 17 January 1972) is a British concert pianist. He is a notable advocate of British music. Biography Mark Bebbington studied at the Royal College of Music with Kendall Taylor and Phyllis Sellick and later in Italy with Aldo ...

* Betty Humby Beecham (Lady Beecham) *

Jozef De Beenhouwer Jozef De Beenhouwer (born March 26, 1948 in Brasschaat, Belgium) is a Belgian pianist, music teacher and musicologist. Biography His first teacher, with whom he started at the age of five, was his paternal grandfather. Even as a child and adolesce ...

Jeanne Behrend Jeanne Behrend (11 May 1911 – 20 March 1988) was an American pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer. Life Jeanne Behrend was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Curtis Institute in 1934, where she studied piano with Josef ...

Elena Beckman-Shcherbina Elena Aleksandrovna Bekman-Shcherbina (; née Kamentseva; 12 January 1882 – 30 September 1951) was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer and teacher. Origins Born Elena Aleksandrovna Kamentseva, she was adopted by her mother's sister after the ...

Giovanni Bellucci Giovanni Bellucci (born Rome, 31 August 1965) is an Italian pianist. After having inadvertently discovered the piano, when he was already fourteen, he started studying at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome under the direction of Franco Medori. ...

* Nelly Ben-Or (Clynes) * Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli *

Richard Rodney Bennett Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.Zachary Woo ...

* Boris Berezovsky *

Martin Berkofsky Martin Berkofsky (9 April 1943 – 30 December 2013) was an American classical pianist, known primarily for his interpretations of music by Franz Liszt and Alan Hovhaness. Early career and activities Born in Washington, D.C., of Belarusian ancest ...

Bart Berman Bart Berman ( he, ברט ברמן; born 29 December 1938) is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th-century music. Career Bart Berman studied piano with Jaap Spaanderman at a predecessor ...

* Boris Berman *

Lazar Berman Lazar Naumovich Berman (russian: Ла́зарь Нау́мович Бе́рман, ''Lazarʹ Naumovič Berman''; February 26, 1930February 6, 2005) was a Soviet Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988). He was hailed for a h ...

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first America ...

Michel Béroff Michel Béroff (born 9 May 1950) is a French pianist and conductor of Bulgarian origin. Background and education Béroff was born at Épinal, and trained at the Nancy, France, Nancy Conservatory, winning the 1st prize in 1962 and the prize of ex ...

Stephen Beus Stephen Beus (born 1981, Othello, Washington, United States) is an American pianist. Biography Stephen Beus began taking piano lessons at age 5, and made his symphonic debut at age 9. He won the MTNA National Competition at the high school level ...

* Sondra Bianca * Philippe Bianconi *

Fabio Bidini Fabio Bidini (born in Arezzo on 11 June 1968) is an Italian pianist. He was a finalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth in 1993. He teaches at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where he holds a piano chair endowed b ...

* Malcolm Bilson * Malcolm Binns *

İdil Biret İdil Biret (born 21 November 1941) is a Turkish concert pianist. Education Biret began her lessons at the age of five with , who had studied under Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. When she was seven, the Turkish parliament enacted a special ...

Tessa Birnie Tessa Daphne Birnie OAM (19 July 192410 March 2008) was an internationally acclaimed New Zealand and Australian concert pianist. Biography Birnie was born in Ashburton, on the South Island of New Zealand, in 1924. She first heard a piano in a lo ...

* Sari Biro *

Hans Bischoff Hans Bischoff (30 November 1889 – 18 March 1960) was a German entomologist from Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inha ...

* Stephen Bishop (see Kovacevich) *

William Black William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

* Easley Blackwood *

Rafał Blechacz Rafał Blechacz (; born 30 June 1985) is a Polish classical pianist who rose to fame after decisively winning the XV International Chopin Piano Competition in 2005. Biography Blechacz began piano lessons at the age of five, and enrolled in the ...

Michel Block Michel Block (January 12, 1937 – March 4, 2003) was a Belgian-French pianist. Biography Born of French parents in Antwerp, Belgium, he moved with his parents to Mexico as child, where his grandfather had settled in 1870. Block studied piano i ...

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (July 16, 1863 – August 20, 1927) was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist. Biography Zeisler was born Fannie Blumenfeld on July 16, 1863, in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, to Jewish parents. She emigrated to the United States ...

* Daniel Blumenthal *

Felicja Blumental Felicja Blumental (28 December 1908 – 31 December 1991) was a Polish pianist and composer. "She was one of the relatively few women born in the first quarter of the twentieth century to have achieved an important career as a concert pianist ...

Mary Louise Boehm Mary Louise Boehm (July 25, 1924 – November 29, 2002) was an American pianist and painter. A descendant of Joseph Boehm, a piano-maker active in Vienna during the early 19th century, Mary Louise Boehm was born in Sumner, Iowa, and soon proved to ...

Gergely Bogányi Gergely Bogányi (born 4 January 1974) is a Hungarian pianist. Coming from a musical family, Bogányi is one of the youngest pianists to have won the Kossuth Prize, becoming one of the leading pianists of his generation. Education Bogányi w ...

* Moissaye Boguslawski *

Jorge Bolet Jorge Bolet (November 15, 1914October 16, 1990) was a Cuban-born American virtuoso pianist and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt. Life Bolet was born in Havan ...

Stefano Bollani Stefano Bollani (born 5 December 1972) is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter. He has worked with such musicians as Gato Barbieri, Chick Corea, Bill Frisell, Sol Gabetta, Richard Gallian ...

* Coenraad V. Bos * Hélène Boschi *

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. From a ...

Hendrik Bouman Hendrik "Henk" Bouman (born 29 September 1951, in Dordrecht)David Cummings, International Who's Who In Music And Musicians' Directory 1994/5, page 92 is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroqu ...

Andreas Boyde Andreas Boyde (born 13 November 1967) is a German pianist. Biography Boyde was born in Oschatz, Bezirk Leipzig. He has appeared in recital as well as soloist with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sächsische Staatska ...

Emma Boynet Emma Boynet (1891 – 1974) was a French pianist. Emma Boynet studied with Isidor Philipp at the Paris Conservatoire The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officiall ...

Evgeni Bozhanov Evgeni Bozhanov (Bulgarian: Евгени Божанов) (born in Rousse, Bulgaria on 10 March 1984) is a Bulgarian pianist who trained with Evgeny Zhelyazkov at the National School of Arts "Prof. Vesselin Stoyanov" in Rousse (Bulgaria). From 2001 ...

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

Alexander Brailowsky Alexander Brailowsky (16 February 1896 – 25 April 1976) was a Russian-born French pianist who specialised in the works of Frédéric Chopin. He was a leading concert pianist in the years between the two World Wars. Early life Brailowsky was bor ...

Natan Brand Natan Brand (1944–1990) was an Israeli classical pianist. Biography Brand was the son of a doctor, Aron Brand, and his wife, Mala, Polish Jews who immigrated to Mandate Palestine days before the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. The family settl ...

Ronald Brautigam Ronald Brautigam (born 1954) is a Dutch concert pianist, best known for his performances of Beethoven's piano works on the fortepiano. Born in Amsterdam, Brautigam studied there with Jan Wijn (1971-79), then he left to study in London with John B ...

* Alfred Brendel *

Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...

* Yefim Bronfman *

The 5 Browns The 5 Browns are a classical piano ensemble consisting of five siblings—two brothers and three sisters. Their repertoire ranges from beloved concert hall staples, such as Igor Stravinsky's ''The Rite of Spring'', Gershwin's ''Rhapsody in Blue' ...

** Deondra ** Desirae ** Gregory **

Melody A melody (from Greek language, Greek μελῳδία, ''melōidía'', "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice or line, is a Linearity#Music, linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most liter ...

Ryan Ryan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Ryan (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) *Ryan (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Places Australia * Division of Ryan, an elector ...

Ian Brown Ian George Brown (born 20 February 1963) is an English singer and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses from their formation in 1983. Following the split in 1996, he began a solo career, re ...

John Browning John Moses Browning (January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926) was an American firearm designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms many of which are still in use around the world. He m ...

Bruce Brubaker Bruce Brubaker is a musician, artist, concert pianist, and writer from the United States. Concepts Brubaker's work uses and combines Western classical music with postmodern artistic, literary, theatrical, and philosophical ideas. He is associat ...

* Rudolf Buchbinder *

Sara Davis Buechner Sara Davis Buechner (born David Buechner; 1959)" Allmusic: David Buechner > overview, retrieved February 25, 2007. is an American concert pianist and educator currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Career Buechner was born in Baltimore ...

Richard Buhlig Richard Moritz Buhlig (December 21, 1880 – January 30, 1952) was an American pianist. Buhlig was born in Chicago to a German immigrant father from Saxony, the baker Moritz Buhlig, and his wife Louise. He received early lessons from August Hy ...

Josef Bulva Josef Bulva (9 January 1943 – 12 August 2020) was a Czech pianist. Life Bulva was born in Brno, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now the Czech Republic. began his training aged nine at a music school in Napajedla, and performed his firs ...

* Khatia Buniatishvili * Stanislav Bunin * Geoffrey Burleson * Ammiel Bushakevitz *

Ferruccio Busoni Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary ...

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* Sarah Cahill *

Matthew Cameron Matthew Cameron (born 20 September 1985) is an Australian Paralympic athletics competitor. He competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he won a bronze medal. Personal Cameron was born on 20 September 1985 and i ...

Michele Campanella Michele Campanella (born 5 June 1947) is an Italian pianist who specialises in the music of Franz Liszt, and is also a conductor. Campanella was born in Naples in 1947. He won the Alfredo Casella Prize at age 19, after studying with Vincenzo ...

Bruno Canino Bruno Canino (born 30 December 1935) is an Italian classical pianist, harpsichordist and composer. Early life Bruno Canino was born in Naples, Italy in 1935, where he studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale. He continued his musical education in ...

Claire and Antoinette Cann Claire and Antoinette Cann (born 1963), known professionally as the Cann Twins, are British identical twin sisters and professional pianists who perform together as a piano duo. Early life and education Claire and Antoinette Cann were born in ...

Boris Cepeda Boris Cepeda (born September 26, 1974, in Quito) is a German-Ecuadorian Pianist and Diplomat. Biography Boris Cepeda got his first piano lessons at four. He appeared in public for the first time in Ecuadorian television at five. Since then ...

* John Carmichael *

Roberto Carnevale Roberto Carnevale (born 15 June 1966) is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor. Biography and career Born in Catania, he started studying piano at the age of seven. He took a degree in Arts at the University of Catania and he attended th ...

* Teresa Carreño (piano rolls only) * Gaby Casadesus * Jean Casadesus * Robert Casadesus *

Gianluca Cascioli Gianluca Cascioli (born 17 July 1979 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian pianist, conductor, and composer. He studied composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin and piano with Franco Scala. In 1994, Cascioli won the Umberto Micheli Inter ...

Ricardo Castro Ricardo Castro Herrera (Rafael de la Santísima Trinidad Castro Herrera) (7 February 1864 – 27 November 1907) was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the time of Porfirio Díaz. Life Castro was b ...

Bertrand Chamayou Bertrand Chamayou (born 23 March 1981) is a French pianist. Career Born in Toulouse, Chamayou studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse under the tutelage of Claudine Willoth, making his first forays into contemporary music and composition. At th ...

* Cécile Chaminade *

Alton Chung Ming Chan Alton Chung Ming Chan () is a Chinese-American-Canadian pianist, pedagogue, choral and orchestral conductor, author, editor, recording artist, video director and producer. Biography Alton Chung Ming Chan, a Grammy Award nominee, was born in Ho ...

Angelin Chang Angelin Chang (張安麟, Korean: 장 安 린) is a Grammy award-winning classical pianist and professor of music at Cleveland State University. She heads the university's keyboard studies program and coordinates the university's chamber musi ...

Abram Chasins Abram Chasins (August 17, 1903 – June 21, 1987) was an American composer, pianist, piano teacher, lecturer, musicologist, music broadcaster, radio executive and author. Born in Manhattan, New York, he attended the Ethical Culture schoo ...

Chen Pi-hsien Chen Pi-hsien (; born 15 November 1950) is a Taiwanese-German classical pianist. She has received honors at several international piano competitions. She teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and lives in Germany at present. Biography C ...

Sa Chen Sa Chen (; born 21 November 1979) is a Chinese pianist. She won first prize in the 1994 China International Piano Competition, fourth place in the XIV International Chopin Piano Competition in 2000, fourth place in the Leeds International Piano ...

Angela Cheng Angela Cheng ( zh, 鄭美蓮; born September 9, 1959) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian classical pianist. She has performed internationally as a recitalist and as a guest soloist with orchestras. Cheng is a professor of piano at the Oberlin Conservat ...

* Shura Cherkassky * Rachel Cheung *

Jan Chiapusso Jan Joseph Chiapusso (2 February 189021 August 1969) was a Dutch, later American, classical pianist and teacher. He was a student of Frederic Lamond and Raoul Pugno, and he was the teacher of Rosalyn Tureck, among others. Biography Jan Joseph Ch ...

* Gian Paolo Chiti *

Zlata Chochieva Zlata Yuryevna Chochieva (russian: Злата Юрьевна Чочиева; born 1 March 1985 in Moscow), is a Russian pianist of Ossetian origin. Life and career At the age of 4 she started piano lessons at the Children's Music School "Yakov ...

Daniel Chorzempa Daniel Walter Chorzempa (born December 7, 1944) is an American organist, composer and architect. Biography Chorzempa was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and subsequently studied music and architecture at the University of Minnesota and further ...

Winifred Christie Winifred Christie (26 February 1882 – 8 February 1965) was a British pianist and composer best known as an advocate of the Moór-Duplex piano. She was born in Stirling, Scotland. The Moór-Duplex piano Winifred Christie spent a significan ...

* Myung-whun Chung *

Marcel Ciampi Marcel Paul Maximin Ciampi (29 May 1891 – 2 September 1980) was a French pianist and teacher. He held the longest tenure in the history of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and also became head of piano classes at the Y ...

* Dino Ciani * Aldo Ciccolini *

Tamara Anna Cislowska Tamara-Anna Cislowska is an Australian concert pianist. She has performed across many countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, South America, Italy, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, The Netherlands and Poland, and has played w ...

* Richard Clayderman * Van Cliburn *

France Clidat France Clidat (Nantes, 22 November 1932 – Paris, 17 May 2012) was a French pianist renowned for her interpretations of the works of Franz Liszt, a great many of which she recorded, and Erik Satie, whose complete piano works she recorded. Biograp ...

Julian Cochran 200px, Julian Cochran in 1998 Julian Cochran (born 1974) is an English-born Australian composer. Cochran's earlier works show stylistic influences from Impressionist music and his later works are more noticeably influenced by Classical music an ...

Arnaldo Cohen Arnaldo Cohen (Rio de Janeiro - 22 April 1948) is a Brazilian pianist. Biography Parallel to his piano studies, he also received degrees in Engineering and Violin from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and started his professional career a ...

Harriet Cohen Harriet(t) may refer to: * Harriet (name), a female name ''(includes list of people with the name)'' Places *Harriet, Queensland, rural locality in Australia * Harriet, Arkansas, unincorporated community in the United States * Harriett, Texas, ...

* Maurice Cole *

Naida Cole Naida Margaret Cole (born October 28, 1974 in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.) is a Canadian-American concert pianist who left a successful career as a recording artist and touring musician in 2007 to pursue medicine, studying at the Warren Alpert Me ...

Catherine Collard Catherine Collard (11 August 1947 – 10 October 1993) was a French classical pianist. She entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 14, where she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and Germaine Mounier. She was awarded the first prize in piano in ...

Jean-Philippe Collard Collard at the ''Flâneries musicales'', Reims (6 June 2014) Jean-Philippe Henri Collard (born 27 January 1948) is a French pianist known for his interpretations of the works of Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns. Career Collard was bo ...

* Finghin Collins *

Graziella Concas Graziella Concas (born 7 January 1970) is an Italian pianist and composer. Biography and career She started studying piano at the age of five. Later she studied piano under Franca Zinghinì-Spinnicchia at the Catania Musical Institute ‘V ...

Sylvia Constantinidis Sylvia Constantinidis (born December 3, 1962) is a Venezuelan-American pianist, composer, and conductor. Early life and education Sylvia Constantinidis was born in Venezuela and began her study of music at an early age in Caracas. Her musi ...

* John Contiguglia * Richard Contiguglia *

Stephen Coombs Stephen Coombs (born Birkenhead, July 11, 1960) is a British pianist who works with orchestras and conductors, as well as performing as a solo artist. (1) Earlier life Coombs first became prominent in music at the age of thirteen, when he won sec ...

Gary Cooper Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, a ...

Imogen Cooper Dame Imogen Cooper, (born 28 August 1949) is an English pianist. Biography Cooper was born in North London, daughter of the musicologist Martin du Pré Cooper and Mary Stewart, artist. She grew up surrounded by music through her parents and ...

* Joseph Cooper *

George Copeland George Copeland (April 3, 1882 – June 16, 1971) was an American classical pianist known primarily for his relationship with the French composer Claude Debussy in the early 20th century and his interpretations of modern Spanish piano works. Ca ...

* Aaron Copland *

Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and ...

Alfred Cortot Alfred Denis Cortot (; 26 September 187715 June 1962) was a French pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century. A pianist of massive repertory, he was especially valued for his poeti ...

Romola Costantino Romola Helen Louise Costantino, Mrs Enyi (14 September 1930November 1988) was a noted Australian pianist, accompanist and teacher, who also worked as a music, film and theatre critic. Biography Costantino was the daughter of Napoleone Costantin ...

Henry Cowell Henry Dixon Cowell (; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher and teacher. Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012)"Henry Cowell: A Life Stranger Than Fiction" ''The Juilliard Journal''. Retrieved 19 June 202 ...

* Patrick Crommelynck *

Tan Crone Tan Crone (born 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 2 March 1930; died Wassenaar, Netherlands, 17 January 2009) was a noted Dutch classical pianist. She performed and recorded both as a soloist and an accompanist. She studied at the Amsterdam Conserv ...

Christine Croshaw Christine Croshaw is a British pianist and a professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, England. Career Croshaw studied initially with Harold Craxton through an award from the composer Arthur Benjamin and was later award ...

Jill Crossland Jill Crossland is an English pianist, born in Yorkshire. She studied with Ryszard Bakst (a Heinrich Neuhaus pupil) at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and with Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna. She has a ...

* Paul Crossley *

Lamar Crowson John Lamar Crowson (May 27, 1926 – August 25, 1998) was an American concert pianist and a chamber musician.''Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (2009) Crowson was born in Tampa, Florida. His early education was in Portland, Oregon, with ...

José Cubiles José Antonio Cubiles Ramos (15 May 1894 5 April 1971) was a noted Spanish pianist, conductor and teacher. Biography Cubiles was born in Cádiz in 1894. His pianistic gifts were already apparent by the age of five. He first studied music theory ...

Clifford Curzon Sir Clifford Michael Curzon CBE (né Siegenberg; 18 May 19071 September 1982) was an English classical pianist. Curzon studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and subsequently with Artur Schnabel in Berlin and Wanda Landowska and Nad ...

* Halina Czerny-Stefańska *

Georges Cziffra Georges may refer to: Places *Georges River, New South Wales, Australia *Georges Quay (Dublin) *Georges Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania Other uses *Georges (name) * ''Georges'' (novel), a novel by Alexandre Dumas * "Georges" (song), a 1977 ...

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Michel Dalberto Michel Dalberto (born 2 June 1955) is a French concert pianist. Biography Dalberto was born in Paris into a non-musical family. He began studying the piano at the age of three and a half. When he was twelve, he was introduced to Vlado Perlemuter ...

Dang Thai Son Dang may refer to: Music * "Dang!" (song), a 2015 song by Mac Miller from ''The Divine Feminine'' * "Dang!", a 2018 song by GreatGuys from ''Trigger'' People * Dang (surname) with origins in both Asiatic and Indo-European languages * Dang, a ...

Jeanne-Marie Darré Jeanne-Marie Darré (30 July 190526 January 1999) was a French classical pianist. She was known for her lyrical and elegant''88 notes pour piano solo'', Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Editions, 2015, p.91. interpretations of the solo works of Chopin ...

Fanny Davies Fanny Davies (27 June 1861 - 1 September 1934) was a British pianist who was particularly admired in Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, and the early schools, but was also a very early London performer of the works of Debussy and Scriabin. In England ...

Bella Davidovich Bella Mikhaylovna Davidovich (Бэлла Миха́йловна Давидо́вич; born July 16, 1928) is a Soviet-born American pianist. Biography Davidovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, into a Jewish family of musicians and began studyi ...

Ivan Davis Ivan Roy Davis, Jr. (February 4, 1932 – March 12, 2018) was an American classical pianist and longstanding member of the faculty at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. Early life Davis was born in Electra, Texas. He received his ...

Claude Debussy (Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the ...

Sylviane Deferne Sylviane Deferne (born 1965 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss pianist and musician. Early musical education Deferne started studying the piano in the Geneva Conservatory of Music of her hometown of Geneva, and she soon won first prize of vir ...

Arthur De Greef Arthur De Greef may refer to: * Arthur De Greef (composer) (1862–1940), Belgian pianist and composer * Arthur De Greef (tennis) (born 1992), Belgian tennis player {{hndis, Greef, Arthur De ...

Cor de Groot Cor de Groot (July 7, 1914May 26, 1993) was a Dutch pianist and composer. He was born in Amsterdam. He studied piano with Egbert Veen and Ulferts Schults, and composition and conducting under Sem Dresden. In 1932 he graduated with highest hon ...

Steven De Groote Steven De Groote (12 January 1953 – 22 May 1989) was a South African classical pianist. Steven De Groote was born in Johannesburg, South Africa into a Belgian family in which, for three generations, almost every member had been a professio ...

Eduardo Delgado Eduardo Delgado (born October 3, 1943) is an Argentine classical pianist and teacher living in California. Born in Rosario, Argentina, Delgado is a recipient of the Vladimir Horowitz Award and has received grants from the Mozarteum Argentino, Ma ...

* Nikolai Demidenko * Jörg Demus * Jeremy Denk *

Anthony di Bonaventura Anthony di Bonaventura (November 12, 1929 – November 12, 2012) was an American pianist and Professor of Music at Boston University's College of Fine Arts for 40 years. He was the director of a Piano Institute at Colby College Piano Institu ...

Misha Dichter Misha Dichter (born September 27, 1945) is an American pianist. Biography Misha Dichter was born in Shanghai to Polish-Jewish parents who fled during WWII. He moved with his family to Los Angeles, California, at the age of two and began studying p ...

* Louis Diémer * Andrei Diev *

Shani Diluka Shani Diluka (born 7 November 1976 in Monaco) is a pianist of Sri Lankan parents. She was among those to benefit from a programme initiated by Princess Grace of Monaco, which allowed children to receive music lessons integrated into their school ...

* Liuben Dimitrov *

Simone Dinnerstein Simone Andrea Dinnerstein (born September 18, 1972) is an American classical pianist. Education Dinnerstein was born in New York City, New York, United States to a Jewish family. She is the daughter of Renee and Simon Dinnerstein. She studied in ...

Paul Doguereau Paul René Doguereau (September 8, 1908 – March 3, 2000) was a French pianist and piano teacher. He spent most of his career in Boston, United States, where he was a well-respected cultural figure.Richard Dyer, 10-Mar-2000, ''The Boston Globe'' ...

* Ernő Dohnányi *

Joanna Domańska Joanna Domańska (born 20 September 1959) is a Polish classical pianist and music teacher from Gliwice. Biography Domańska started her piano studies at the Academy of Music in Kraków with professor Jan Hoffman, and graduated with distinction ...

* Peter Donohoe *

Sergei Dorensky Sergei Leonidovich Dorensky (russian: Серге́й Леони́дович Доре́нский; 3 December 1931 – 26 February 2020) was a Russian pianist. He was trained under Grigory Ginsburg at the Moscow Conservatory. Dorensky was awarded ...

Ania Dorfmann Ania Dorfmann (9 July 189921 April 1984) was a Russian-American pianist and teacher, who taught at the Juilliard School in New York for many years and was the first of only a very few women pianists to play or record under Arturo Toscanini. Caree ...

* Marylene Dosse *

Barry Douglas Barry James Douglas (born 4 September 1989) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań. After playing for Queen's Park and Dundee United F.C., Dundee United in Scotland, he joined Polish c ...

Danny Driver Danny Driver (born 1977) is a British classical pianist. Biography Danny Driver was born and grew up in London. His mother is Israeli, and his first language was Hebrew. His father is was a keen amateur violinist who studied at Oxford Universit ...

Zbigniew Drzewiecki Zbigniew Drzewiecki (; 8 April 189011 April 1971) was a Polish pianist who was for most of his life a teacher of pianists. He was especially associated with the interpretation of Frédéric Chopin's works. His pupils include several famous pianist ...

* Florence Kirsch Du Brul *

François-René Duchâble François-René Duchâble (born 22 April 1952, in Paris) is a French pianist. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, and at the age of 13 won the institution's first prize in piano. Three years later, he placed 11th at the Queen Elisabeth Mus ...

François Dumont François Dumont may refer to: *François Dumont (sculptor) (1688–1729), French sculptor *François Dumont (painter) (1751–1831), French painter of portrait miniatures *François Dumont (pianist) François Dumont (; born 19 October 1985 in Lyo ...

* Duo Tal & Groethuysen

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Akiko Ebi is a Japanese-French pianist. Ebi was born in Osaka. She studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, and won the piano prize of the 41st Music Competition of Japan. Her international career began with her winning second prize in the 1975 Marg ...

Severin von Eckardstein Severin von Eckardstein (born 1 August 1978) is a German classical pianist. He was born in Düsseldorf, and took his first piano lessons when he was six years old. At the age of 12, he was accepted into a young-talent class at the Robert Schuman ...

* Nicolas Economou * Bracha Eden * Richard Egarr *

Pavel Egorov Pavel Grigorievich Egorov (russian: Павел Григорьевич Его́ров; 8 January 1948 – 15 August 2017) was a Russian pianist and scholar. He won the VI Robert Schumann Competition before graduating in 1975 from the Moscow Conser ...

Youri Egorov Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov (russian: Юрий Александрович Егоров; 28 May 1954 – 16 April 1988) was a Soviet and Monegasque classical pianist. Early years Born in Kazan, USSR, Youri Egorov studied music at the Kazan Conser ...

* Severin Eisenberger * Detlev Eisinger * Jan Ekier *

Abdel Rahman El Bacha Abdel Rahman El Bacha ( ar, عبد الرحمن الباشا, born October 23, 1958) is a Lebanese pianist and composer. His repertory includes over fifty concertos and is largely based on the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, ...

* Edson Elias *

Emre Elivar Emre Elivar (born 21 August 1976, in Ankara) is a Turkish concert pianist. Emre Elivar began his studies and graduated from State Conservatoire in Ankara. The DAAD scholarship made his further education and specialization at music academies “Car ...

Michael Endres Michael Endres (born 1961) is a German pianist. He was professor for piano from 1993 to 2004 at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Cologne, until 2009 at the Hochschule Hanns Eisler in Berlin—since autumn 2009 at the University of Canterbury i ...

* Per Enflo *

Karl Engel Karl (Rudolf) Engel (Birsfelden, 1 June 1923 - Clarens, Switzerland, Chernex, 2 September 2006) was a Switzerland, Swiss pianist. In 1952 Engel was awarded the second prize at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, Queen Elisabeth competition. ...

Brigitte Engerer Brigitte Engerer (; 27 October 1952 – 23 June 2012) was a French pianist. Biography Born in Tunis, French Tunisia, Engerer started piano lessons at the age of four, and by the age of six was performing in public. When she was 11 her fami ...

Philippe Entremont Philippe Entremont (born 7 June 1934) is a French classical pianist and conductor. His recordings as a pianist include concertos by Tchaikovsky, Maurice Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns and others. Early life Philippe Entremont was born in ...

Richard Epstein Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is an American legal scholar known for his writings on torts, contracts, property rights, law and economics, classical liberalism, and libertarianism. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at ...

* Christoph Eschenbach *

Morton Estrin Morton Estrin (December 29, 1923 – December 7, 2017) was an American classical pianist and teacher. His career began in 1949 with a well-received recital at Town Hall in New York. He studied with the teacher Vera Maurina-Press and others. Es ...

* Róża Etkin-Moszkowska *

Lindley Evans Lindley Evans Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (18 November 18952 December 1982) was a Cape Colony-born Australian composer, pianist and teacher. He is best known for his collaboration with Frank Hutchens in a famous piano ...

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Mikhaïl Faerman Mikhail Faerman (born 29 April 1955 in Bălți, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian-Belgian classical pianist. Career Faerman started to study the piano at the age of three. In 1962, he was sent to sit f ...

Joel Fan Joel Fan (b. United States, July 29, 1969) is an American pianist and Steinway Artist "who has won praise for his technical expertise, lyrical playing, and outstanding interpretation". The New York Times has described Joel Fan as an "impressive pi ...

Edith Farnadi Edith Farnadi (25 September 1921 – 12 or 14 December 1973) was a Hungarian pianist. She was born in Budapest and began her studies at the age of 7 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. She studied with Professor Arnold Székely (also a teacher ...

Richard Farrell Richard Farrell (30 December 1926 – 27 May 1958) was a New Zealand classical pianist. Musical career Early life Thomas Richard Farrell was born in Auckland in 1926 to Thomas and Ella Farrell, and spent most of his young years in Wellingto ...

José Feghali José Feghali (March 28, 1961 – December 9, 2014,) was a Brazilian pianist, who, until his death, was an Artist-in-Residence at Texas Christian University's school of music in piano. He was the gold medalist winner of the Van Cliburn Internation ...

Alan Feinberg Alan Feinberg (born in New York City) is an American classical pianist. He has premiered over 300 works by such composers as John Adams, Milton Babbitt, John Harbison, Charles Ives, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen, as well as the premiere of Mel ...

* Samuil Feinberg * Till Fellner *

Vladimir Feltsman Vladimir Oskarovich Feltsman (russian: Владимир Оскарович Фельцман, ''Vladimir Oskarovič Feltsman'' (born 8 January 1952) is a Russian-American classical pianist of Lithuanian Jewish descent particularly noted for his devo ...

Gordon Fergus-Thompson Gordon Fergus-Thompson FRCM (born 9 March 1952) is an English concert pianist. Biography Fergus-Thompson's first piano teacher waChristine Brown a pupil of Denis Matthews. Subsequently, he became a student of Gordon Green at the Royal Northern ...

* Arthur Ferrante *

Jacques Février Jacques Février (26 July 1900 – 2 September 1979) was a French pianist and teacher. Life and career Jacques Février was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the son of the composer Henry Février. He studied with Édouard Risler and Marguerite Lo ...

Janina Fialkowska Janina Fialkowska, (born May 7, 1951) is a Canadian classical pianist. A specialist of the Classic and Romantic repertoires, for more than thirty years she has appeared regularly with professional orchestras around the world, often performing the ...

* Margaret Fingerhut *

Sergio Fiorentino Sergio Fiorentino (22 December 1927 – 22 August 1998) was a 20th-century Italian classical pianist whose sporadic performing career spanned five decades. There is quite a bit of footage of his playing that survives, in addition to audio record ...

Rudolf Firkušný Rudolf Firkušný (; 11 February 191219 July 1994) was a Moravians, Moravian-born, Moravian-American classical pianist. Life Born in Moravian town Napajedla, Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef ...

* Annie Fischer * Caroline Fischer *

Edwin Fischer Edwin Fischer (6 October 1886 – 24 January 1960) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is regarded as one of the great interpreters of J.S. Bach and Mozart in the twentieth century. Biography Fischer was born in Basel and studied ...

* Norma Fisher * Philip Edward Fisher * Leon Fleisher * Yakov Flier *

Ingrid Fliter Íngrid Fliter (born September 23, 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro ...

Andor Földes Andor Földes (later Andor Foldes; 21 December 1913 – 9 February 1992) was an internationally renowned Hungarian pianist born in Budapest, who later took American citizenship. Career Földes first studied the piano with his mother, Valeri ...

Bengt Forsberg Bengt Forsberg (born 1952) is a Swedish concert pianist most famous for his numerous collaborations with the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. He participated in her project to record songs written in the concentration camp of Terezín. Forsberg ...

* Lukas Foss *

Philip Fowke Philip Fowke (born 28 June 1950) is an English pianist. Biography Philip Francis Fowke studied at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) with Gordon Green, a pupil of Egon Petri. In 1974 he made his London debut with a recital at the Wigmore Hall (B ...

* Fou Ts'ong *

Malcolm Frager Malcolm Frager (January 15, 1935June 20, 1991) was an American piano virtuoso and recording artist. Life and career Frager was born in St. Louis, Missouri and studied with Carl Friedberg in New York City from 1949 until Friedberg's death in 1955. ...

Homero Francesch Homero Francesch (born 6 December 1947, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguay-born Swiss pianist. Biography Francesch took piano lessons with Santiago Baranda Reyes in Uruguay. In 1967, he was awarded a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange S ...

Samson François Samson Pascal François (18 May 192422 October 1970) was a French pianist and composer. Biography François was born in Frankfurt where his father worked at the French consulate. His mother, Rose, named him Samson, for strength, and Pascal, for ...

Claude Frank Claude Frank (born Claus Johannes Frank; December 24, 1925 – December 27, 2014) was a German-born American pianist. Biography Of Jewish ancestry, Frank was born in Nuremberg, Germany. His father emigrated to Brussels after the advent of the ...

Peter Frankl Peter Frankl (born 2 October 1935) is a Hungary, Hungarian-born United Kingdom, British pianist. He mainly performs music from the Classical period (music), Classical period (particularly Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart), the Romantic music, Rom ...

* Justus Frantz * David Fray * Nelson Freire *

Etelka Freund Etelka Freund (1879 – 27 May 1977) was a Hungarian pianist. A disciple of Ferruccio Busoni, she played regularly for Johannes Brahms during her training years. An international career, throughout which she was an early exponent of Béla ...

Carl Friedberg Carl Rudolf Hermann Friedberg (September 18, 1872 in Bingen am Rhein, Bingen, German Empire, Germany – September 9, 1955 in Meran, Italy) was a German pianist and teacher of Jewish origin. Biography He was son of Eduard Friedberg (?–1937) a ...

* Ilya Friedberg *

Arthur Friedheim Arthur Friedheim (russian: Артур Фридхайм, 14/26 October 1859 – 19 October 1932) was a Russian-born concert pianist and composer who was one of Franz Liszt's foremost pupils. One of Friedheim's students was Rildia Bee O'Bryan ...

* Ignaz Friedman *

Benjamin Frith Benjamin Frith is a British classical pianist. He was born in South Yorkshire, England, on 11 October 1957. He began taking piano lessons with Fanny Waterman at age ten. He was encouraged by Waterman to pursue a career after winning the Dudley N ...

* Herbert Fryer *

Kotaro Fukuma Fukuma rehearsing in 2013 Kotaro Fukuma (born 29 August 1982 in Tokyo) is a Japanese classical pianist. Biography At the Conservatoire de Paris, Fukuma was a pupil of Bruno Rigutto and Marie-Françoise Bucquet. He won his first piano prize in ...

David Fung David Fung (born August 17, 1988) is a concert pianist. Fung was born in Sydney, Australia. Early life and education Fung attended James Ruse Agricultural High School in Sydney, where he received the James Ruse Medal for Dux and the Medal for Musi ...

Margarita Fyodorova Margarita Alekseevna Fyodorova - Маргарита Алексеевна Фёдорова (4 November 1927 - 14 August 2016) was a Soviet Russian pianist, People's Artist of Russia. She won silver in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competi ...

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Gábor Gabos Gábor Gabos (4 January 1930 – 27 August 2014) was a Hungarian pianist.Elhunyt Gabos Gábor
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* Ossip Gabrilowitsch *

Irwin Gage Irwin Gage (September 4, 1939 – April 12, 2018) was an American pianist, specializing in accompanying Lieder. Biography Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Gage studied piano, musicology and literature at the University of Michigan and Yale, and later wi ...

Neil Galanter Neil Galanter is an American pianist in Los Angeles, California, who is a leading specialist in researching and performing the works of Iberian/Spanish, Catalan, Belgian, and other European composers including Mompou, Montsalvatge, Granados, Alb ...

Rudolph Ganz Rudolph Ganz (24 February 1877 – 2 August 1972) was a Swiss-born American pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator. Career Early career as a pianist and conductor Born in Zurich, Ganz studied cello with Friedrich Hegar and piano wi ...

* Mark Gasser * Ivana Gavrić *

Andrei Gavrilov Andrei Gavrilov (in Russian Андрей Гаврилов; born September 21, 1955) is a Swiss pianist of Russian background. Early life and music career Andrei Gavrilov was born into a family of artists in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Gavr ...

Alexander Gavrylyuk Alexander Gavrylyuk (born 19 August 1984) is a Ukrainian-born Australian pianist. Career Gavrylyuk's first concert performance was at the age of nine. He moved to Australia at the age of 13. In 1999 he won the Vladimir Horowitz Competition, i ...

* Bruno Leonardo Gelber *

Kemal Gekić Kemal Gekić (born February 16, 1962, in Split, Croatia, then Yugoslavia) is a Croatian-born American concert pianist and Full Professor of Piano Performance at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, USA. Early life Kemal Gekić was bo ...

* Aglika Genova * Valentin Gheorghiu *

Lorenzo Ghielmi Lorenzo Ghielmi (born in Milan on 1 September 1959) is an Italian organist and harpsichordist. He teaches old music at the ''Accademia Internazionale della Musica'' in Milan and at the "Schola Cantorum Basiliensis" in Basel. He was professor in Tr ...

Alexander Ghindin Alexander Sheftelyevich Ghindin (russian: Александр Шефтельевич Гиндин; born 17 April 1977, Moscow) is a Russian pianist. He won first prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition The Cleveland International Pia ...

* Jack Gibbons * Walter Gieseking *

Emil Gilels Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (Russian: Эми́ль Григо́рьевич Ги́лельс; 19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) was a Russian pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. Early life and educatio ...

Rhondda Gillespie Rhondda Gillespie (4 August 194130 December 2010) was an Australian-born classical pianist who resided primarily in the United Kingdom and Barbados. She was a specialist in the music of Franz Liszt and brought to light many of his lesser-known wo ...

Boris Giltburg Boris Leonidovich Giltburg ( he, בוריס גילטבורג, born June 21, 1984) is an Israeli classical pianist, born in Russia. Biography Giltburg was born into a Jewish family in Moscow, Russia, and began studying piano with his mother a ...

Jakob Gimpel Jakob Gimpel (April 16, 1906March 12, 1989) was a Polish concert pianist and educator. Jakob Gimpel was born in Lwów (then in Polish Galicia, part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, and now Lviv, Ukraine). Gimpel's younger brother, Bronislav Gimpe ...

* Håvard Gimse *

Stéphane Ginsburgh Stéphane Ginsburgh (born 27 November 1969) is a Belgian pianist of Austrian origin. He is a piano professor at the Geneva University of Music. Biography Ginsburgh was born in Brussels. After graduating from the Royal Music Conservatories of M ...

* Grigory Ginzburg *

Katrine Gislinge Katrine Gislinge (born 1969) is a Danish pianist. She began taking piano lessons at the age of six. After taking her diploma in 1990 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, she studied with, among others, Seymour Lipkin in New York City ...

Frank Glazer Frank Glazer (February 19, 1915 – January 13, 2015) was an American pianist, composer, and teacher of music. Career details Glazer was born in Chester, Wisconsin on February 19, 1915, the sixth child of Benjamin and Clara Glazer, Jewish emig ...

Bernd Glemser Bernd Glemser (born 1962, Dürbheim) is a German pianist. A student of Vitaly Margulis, in 1989 he became Germany's youngest piano professor at Saarbrücken's Musikhochschule. He has recorded major pieces by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Schumann, ...

* Leopold Godowsky * Nelson Goerner * Alexander Goldenweiser *

Robert Goldsand Robert Goldsand (March 17, 1911September 16, 1991) was an Austrian-American classical pianist. Life Goldsand was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, in 1911, the son of artisan Jakob Goldsand and his wife Helene. He began musical studies at age f ...

* Alexis Golovin *

David Golub David Golub (March 22, 1950 – October 16, 2000) was an American pianist and conductor. Biography Born in Chicago, Golub moved with his family to Richardson, Texas when he was five years old. He began piano lessons not long thereafter wh ...

Richard Goode Richard Goode (born June 1, 1943) is an American classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven. Early life Goode was born in the East Bronx, New York. He studied piano with Elvira Szigeti, Claude Fra ...

* Isador Goodman * Judith Gordon *

Vera Gornostayeva Vera Gornostayeva (October 1, 1929 – January 19, 2015) was a Russian pianist and pedagogue. An Emeritus Artist of the Russian Federation at the time of her death, Gornostayeva was a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where her te ...

Sascha Gorodnitzki Sascha Gorodnitzki (24 May 19044 April 1986) was an American concert pianist, recording artist and pedagogue at the Juilliard School of Music. Biography Early life and education Born in Kyiv, Russian Empire Gorodnitzki emigrated as an infant ...

Daniel Gortler Daniel Gortler (Hebrew language, Hebrew: דניאל גורטלר) is an Israeli pianist and Pedagogy, pedagogue. Education and early life Born and raised in Israel, Gortler began studying classical music and piano with Naomi Hachohen. He graduat ...

Ralf Gothóni Ralf Georg Nils Gothóni (born 2 May 1946, Rauma) is a Finnish-German pianist and conductor. He is also active as a chamber musician, professor, composer, and author. Born in Rauma, Finland he made his orchestra debut at age 15. Besides his worl ...

* Glenn Gould * Anna Gourari *

Enrique Graf Enrique Graf (born 1953) is a Uruguayan-American pianist. Biography Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Graf began studying piano at the age of four with his mother. He then studied at the Falleri-Balzo Conservatory. After winning all of the nationa ...

Gary Graffman Gary Graffman (born October 14, 1928) is an American classical pianist, teacher and administrator. Early life Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of M ...

* Percy Grainger *

Carlo Grante Carlo Grante (born 1960 in L'Aquila) is an Italian classical pianist. He graduated at the National Academy of St Cecilia in Rome with . Later he also studied with Ivan Davis, Rudolf Firkušný, and Alisa Kezheradze. He is known as a performer of ...

Arthur Greene Arthur Greene is an American pianist and educator. Career Greene won gold medals at both the 1978 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and the William Kapell International Piano Competition. ''The Washington Post' wrote "For 99 ou ...

David Greilsammer David Greilsammer (10 August 1977) is a pianist and Conductor (music), conductor. Biography David Greilsammer is the eldest of five brothers, and lives nowadays between Paris, Geneva and Medellín. He studied at the Juilliard School in New Yor ...

Antony Grey Anthony Edgar Gartside Wright (6 October 1927 – 30 April 2010), better known by his pseudonym Antony Grey, was an English LGBT rights activist. Grey was credited by Lord Arran to have "done more than any single man to bring this social proble ...

Jeffrey Grice Pianist Jeffrey Grice was born in 1954 in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1966, his family moved to Auckland where he attended Sacred Heart College in Glen Innes, counting among his classmates the future founding members of NZ's iconic rock band ...

* Edvard Grieg *

Dan Grigore Dan Grigore (born 6 August 1943) is a Romanian classical pianist. He is regarded as one of the great pianists of the twentieth century, as well as one of the four greatest Romanian pianists of all time (along with Clara Haskil, Dinu Lipatti, and ...

* Hélène Grimaud * Maria Grinberg * Bonnie Gritton * Andreas Groethuysen *

Benjamin Grosvenor Benjamin Grosvenor (born 8 July 1992) is a British classical pianist. Education Grosvenor was born and brought up in Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. He is the youngest of five brothers. His father is an English and Drama teacher, an ...

Alfred Grünfeld Alfred Grünfeld (4 July 1852 in Prague – 4 January 1924 in Vienna) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Life Alfred Grünfeld was born as the second of eight children to Jewish leather merchant Moritz Grünfeld (born 1817 Kolín nad Labem) a ...

* Andrei Gugnin *

Friedrich Gulda Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000) was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields. Biography Early life and career Born in Vienna the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano ...

Youra Guller Youra Guller (14 May 1895 – 31 December 1980) was a French classical pianist. Biography Guller was born in Marseille as Rose-Georgette Guller, of Russian-Romanian heritage. She began her studies at the age of five. She performed in recitals and ...

Horacio Gutiérrez Horacio Gutiérrez (born 1948) is a Cuban-American classical pianist known for his performances of works in the Romantic Repertoire. Early life and education When Fidel Castro gained control of Cuba in 1959, the family decided to leave the count ...

* László Gyimesi *

Ádám György Ádám György (; born 28 January 1982) is a Hungarian pianist. György started his music studies at the age of four. While studying under Katalin Halmagyi, he was accepted to the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Budapest in 1994. György won the N ...

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Werner Haas Werner Haas (; 30 May 1927 – 13 November 1956) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Germany. He became Germany's first motorcycle world champion when he won the 1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist ...

* Michael Habermann * Ingrid Haebler *

Andreas Haefliger Andreas Haefliger (born September 11, 1962) is a German-born Switzerland, Swiss pianist. Early life and education Born in Berlin on September 11, 1962, Haefliger is the youngest son of famed tenor Ernst Haefliger and interior designer and archit ...

Reynaldo Hahn Reynaldo Hahn (; 9 August 1874 – 28 January 1947) was a Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – ''mélodies'' – of which he wrote more than 100. Hahn was born in Caracas b ...

Adolph Hallis Adolph Hallis (4 July 1896 – 1987) was a South African pianist, composer and teacher. Life Hallis was born in Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony and travelled to England in his twenties, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Music; his teachers th ...

Mark Hambourg Mark Hambourg (russian: Марк Михайлович Гамбург, 1 June 1879 – 26 August 1960) was a Russian British concert pianist. Life Mark Hambourg was the eldest son of the pianist Michael Hambourg (1855–1916), a pupil o ...

Leonid Hambro Leonid Hambro (June 26, 1920 – October 23, 2006) was an American concert pianist and composer. Life Hambro was born in Chicago, the son of immigrant Lithuanian Jews; his father was a pianist accompanying silent films. He studied at the Juill ...

Marc-André Hamelin Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ (born September 5, 1961), is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer. Hamelin is recognized worldwide for the originality and technical proficiency of his performances of the classic repertoire. He has received 11 Gr ...

Ambre Hammond Ambre Hammond (born in Cairns) is an Australian classical pianist and composer. Life Hammond has been taught by her mother, Carolyn Hammond, since the age of three. In 1989, Hammond achieved a world record when she was awarded her AMEB Associat ...

Yoonjung Han Yoonjung "Yoonie" Han (born January 12, 1985, in South Korea) is a South Korean-born American classical pianist. Education Principal teachers: Robert McDonald, Eleanor Sokoloff, Eduardus Halim, Jean Saulnier, Victoria Mushkatkol Teachin ...

* Adam Harasiewicz *

Wolf Harden Wolf Harden (born 1962) is a German classical pianist. Biography and career Wolf Harden was born in Hamburg, and started learning music with his father, a musicologist, and his mother, a pianist. He studied at the Detmold Music Academy, and be ...

Michael Kieran Harvey Michael Kieran Harvey (born 7 July 1961) is an Australian pianist and composer whose career has been notable for its diversity and wide repertoire. He is renowned for commissioning, performing and composing new music. He has especially promoted ...

Clara Haskil Clara Haskil (7 January 1895 – 7 December 1960) was a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire. She was particularly noted for her performances and recordings of Mozart. She was also ...

Joyce Hatto Joyce Hilda Hatto (5 September 1928 – 29 June 2006) was an English concert pianist and piano teacher. In 1956 she married William Barrington-Coupe, a record producer who was convicted of Purchase Tax evasion in 1966. Hatto became famous very ...

* Walter Hautzig * Endre Hegedűs * Inna Heifetz *

Eero Heinonen The Rasmus is a Finnish rock band that formed in 1994 in Helsinki while the band members were in upper comprehensive school.Main source of the band's history: The original band members were Lauri Ylönen (lead singer-songwriter), Eero Heinonen ...

Claude Helffer Claude Helffer (18 June 1922 – 27 October 2004) was a French pianist. Early life Helffer was born in Paris, and began piano lessons at the age of five and from the age of ten until the outbreak of World War II he studied with Robert Casa ...

David Helfgott David Helfgott (born 19 May 1947) is an Australian concert pianist whose life inspired the Academy Award-winning film '' Shine'', in which he was portrayed by actors Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor and Alex Rafalowicz. Biography Early life Helfgot ...

* Gerard Hengeveld * Dennis Hennig * Myra Hess *

Barbara Hesse-Bukowska Barbara Stella Hesse-Bukowska (8 February 1930 – 9 December 2013) was a Polish pianist. Her family had a long-standing musical history, as her father was a violinist and conductor, her mother was a pianist and teacher, and her grandfather ...

* Angela Hewitt * Peter Hill * Robert Hill *

Eric Himy Eric Himy is an American-born (August 16, 1958) classical pianist of French-Spanish-Moroccan descent. Life Born in Brooklyn, NY, (August 16, 1958), Himy began piano studies at age six, giving his first concert at age 10. By age 7, he was accepte ...

Christopher Hinterhuber Christopher Hinterhuber (born 28 June 1973) is an Austrian classical pianist. Biography and career Hinterhuber was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, and studied with Rudolf Kehrer and Heinz Medjimorec at the university for Music in Vienna, and with ...

Ian Hobson Ian Hobson is an English pianist, conductor and teacher, and is a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and at Florida State University. His pianistic repertoire spans the baroque to the contemporary, but he specialises in th ...

Josef Hofmann Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor. Biography Josef Hofmann was born in Podgórze (a district of Kraków), in Aus ...

Leonard Hokanson Leonard Hokanson (August 13, 1931 – March 21, 2003) was an American pianist who achieved prominence in Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. Early life and education Born in Vinalhaven, Maine, he attended Clark University in Worcester, Massa ...

* Vladimir Horowitz * Mieczysław Horszowski * Andrej Hoteev * Stephen Hough * Michael Houstoun *

Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness (; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American-Armenian composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and ...

* Leslie Howard * Philip Howard *

Roy Howat Roy Howat (born 1951, Ayrshire, Scotland) is a Scottish pianist and musicologist, who specializes in French music. Howat has been Keyboard Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music in London since 2003, and Research Fellow at the Royal Cons ...

Fei-Ping Hsu Fei-Ping Hsu (Chinese: 许斐平; July 20, 1952November 27, 2001) was a Chinese-American pianist. Hsu was born on the island of Gulangyu in southeast China. As the youngest son of a Christian pastor, he grew up singing hymns while his mother pla ...

Helen Huang Helen Huang (; born October 1982) is a classical pianist. She began studying piano in 1987, performing and touring with major symphony orchestras. Musical career Huang was born in Ibaraki, Japan, of Taiwanese parents. Her family moved to the Un ...

Jean Hubeau Jean Hubeau (22 June 191719 August 1992) was a French pianist, composer and pedagogue known especially for his recordings of Gabriel Fauré, Robert Schumann and Paul Dukas, which are recognized as benchmark versions. Biography Admitted at t ...

* Engelbert Humperdinck *

Bruce Hungerford Bruce Hungerford (24 November 192226 January 1977), known for the majority of his career as Leonard Hungerford, was an Australian pianist. Biography Born in Korumburra, Victoria, Bruce Hungerford was originally named Leonard Sinclair Hungerfo ...

Frank Hutchens Francis Hutchens OBE (15 January 1892 – 18 October 1965) was a pianist, music teacher and composer originally from New Zealand. He became a popular concert pianist in Australia and was a founding member of the New South Wales Conservatoriu ...

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Stanislav Igolinsky Stanislav Grigoryevich Igolinsky (russian: Иголинский, Станислав Григорьевич, born 1954, in Saratov Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative cente ...

Valentina Igoshina Valentina Igoshina (born 4 November 1978 in Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast) is a Russian classical pianist. She has won several international piano competitions. Biography Valentina Igoshina began studying piano with her mother, and first took lessons ...

* Konstantin Igumnov * Ivan Ilić * Jos Van Immerseel *

Eugen Indjic Eugen Indjic (born March 11, 1947 in Belgrade) is a French-American pianist. Biography His father was a Serb Yugoslav army general serving under King Peter II of Yugoslavia. Emigrating to the United States with his Russian mother, an amateur pi ...

Stanislav Ioudenitch Stanislav Ioudenitch (born December 5, 1971) is an Uzbekistani-born American pianist, known for winning the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2001, jointly with Olga Kern, as well ...

Clelia Iruzun Clelia Iruzun is a Brazilian pianist based in London. Early life Clelia Iruzun was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She started playing by ear at the age of four years, subsequently beginning piano lessons with Maria Augusta Brasil da Silva and ...

Yoram Ish-Hurwitz Yoram Ish-Hurwitz (born 1968 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch pianist. He began his studies with Danièle Dechenne and Jan Wijn at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. In 1993 he was the first Dutch pianist to graduate from the Juilliard School in ...

* Eugene Istomin * Amparo Iturbi * José Iturbi *

Christian Ivaldi Christian Ivaldi (born 2 September 1938) is a French pianist. Ivaldi was born in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Février and took a Premier Prix in piano performance, as well as in chamber music, counterpoint, and accom ...

Andrei Ivanovitch Andrei Ivanovitch (; born 1968 in Bucharest, Romania) is an international classical pianist and winner of a number of international competitions. Biography and career Andrei Ivanovitch, great-grandson of the Romanian composer Ion Ivanovici ( Th ...

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Peter Jablonski Peter Jablonski (born 1971) is a Swedish concert pianist. Biography Peter Jablonski was born in Lyckeby, Sweden to a Swedish mother and Polish father. He studied percussion and piano at Malmö Conservatory from 1982 to 1986. He performed as a dr ...

* Paul Jacobs *

Ahmad Jamal Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones, July 2, 1930) is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and educator. For six decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz. Biography Early life Jamal was born Fr ...

Zoran G. Jančić Zoran G. Jančić (born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian Serb pianist. He was educated at Primary and Secondary Music School. He gave his first recital at the age of twelve. He was also educated at the Zagreb Academy of M ...

Jenő Jandó Jenő Jandó (; born 1 February 1952) is a Hungarian pianist and Professor of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. Background and education Jandó studied piano at the Liszt Academy with Katalin Nemes and Pál Kadosa, late ...

Byron Janis Byron Janis (born March 24, 1928) is an American classical pianist. He made several recordings for RCA Victor and Mercury Records, and occupies two volumes of the Philips series ''Great Pianists of the 20th Century''. His discography covers rep ...

* Tasso Janopoulo *

Rudolf Jansen Rudolf Jansen (born January 19, 1940, in Arnhem) is a Dutch pianist, who studied piano, organ and harpsichord simultaneously at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam. His teachers were Nelly Wagenaar, his father Simon C. Jansen, Felix de Nobel and Gu ...

Gintaras Januševičius Gintaras Januševičius (born 16 January 1985) is a Lithuanian pianist, music educator, event producer, radio presenter, and philanthropist. He is renowned for narrative recitals and original interpretations; particularly that of Rachmaninoff, C ...

Dina Joffe Dina Yoffe (born in Riga, Latvia on 18 December 1952) is a pianist, pedagogue and winner of many musical competitions. Biography Dina Yoffe was born in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). She got her first musical award Concerti ...

* Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz * Grant Johannesen *

Gunnar Johansen Gunnar Johansen (January 21, 1906, Copenhagen – May 25, 1991, Blue Mounds, Wisconsin) was a Danish-born pianist and composer. He was one of the chief proponents of the music of Ferruccio Busoni, whose mature keyboard works he recorded in their e ...

* Graham Johnson *

Henry Jolles Henry Jolles (born Heinz-Frederic Jolles; 28 November 1902 – 16 July 1965), was a German pianist and composer. Uprooted from his native Germany by the rise of Nazism, he spent his last quarter-century in Brazil.Maryla Jonas Maryla Jonas (born Maryla Jonasówna; May 31, 1911July 3, 1959), was a Polish-born classical pianist, who escaped Nazism to settle in Brazil and later the United States. Jonas was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, debuting her pianisti ...

* Martin Jones * Bradley Joseph * Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux * Eileen Joyce *

Terence Judd Terence Judd (3 October 1957between 16 and 23 December 1979) was an English pianist. Career Terence Judd was born in 1957 to English- American parents, Anthony and Gloria Judd. In 1967, aged 10, he won the National Junior Pianoforte Competition, ...

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* Ilona Kabos *

Jeffrey Kahane Jeffrey Alan Kahane (born September 12, 1956) is an American classical concert pianist and conductor. He was music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for 20 years, the longest of any music director in the orchestra's history. He is t ...

Percy Kahn Percival (Percy) Benedict Kahn (9 December 18802 May 1966) was an England, English composer and pianist. His most noted composition was the song ''Ave Maria'' with accompaniment by piano, and violin obbligato. Kahn was born in London in 1880. He ...

Joseph Kalichstein Joseph Kalichstein (15 January 1946 – 31 March 2022) was an American classical pianist who performed in the concerto, solo recital and chamber music repertoire, the latter mainly with Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson (cellist), Sharon Robinson ...

* Gilbert Kalish *

Valentina Kameníková Valentina Kameníková ''nee'' Valentine Mikhaylovna Wax (20 December 1930 in Odessa, Soviet Union – 29 November 1989) was a Czech pianist and Ukrainian music teacher, respectively. She came from a musical family. During World War II in 194 ...

Hans Kann Hans Kann (born 14 February 1927 in Vienna; died 24 June 2005) was an Austrian pianist and composer. He taught music in his native Austria and in Japanese schools such as the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He was the son of bus ...

* Isata Kanneh-Mason * William Kapell * Richard Kapp *

Danae Kara Danae Kara (; born on 27 July 1953) is a Greek classical concert pianist, Music artist (occupation), recording artist, and Education, educator, best known for her interpretations of 20th century List of Greek composers, Greek modernist composers. ...

Natalia Karp Natalia Karp (née Weissman; 27 February 1911 – 9 July 2007, aged 96) was a Polish concert pianist and Holocaust survivor. Early life Natalia Karp was born in Kraków, Poland, and began learning piano at the age of four. At the age of thir ...

Yakov Kasman Yakov Kasman (born February 24, 1967) is a Russian American classical pianist, professor of piano, and artist-in-residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Since his American debut as the silver medalist at the Tenth Van Cliburn Inter ...

Andrey Kasparov Andrey Rafailovich Kasparov ( hy, Անդրեյ Րաֆաիլի Կասպարով, russian: Андре́й Рафаи́лович Каспа́ров, born 6 April 1966) is an Armenian-American pianist, composer, and professor, who holds both Americ ...

Julius Katchen Julius Katchen (August 15, 1926 – April 29, 1969) was an American concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Johannes Brahms's solo piano works. Early career Katchen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and debuted at age ...

Peter Katin Peter Roy Katin ( ) (14 November 193019 March 2015) was a British classical pianist and teacher. Biography Katin was born in London; his father was sign-painter Jerrold Katin (who was born in Lithuania) and mother Gertrude. Katin was educated ...

Cyprien Katsaris Cyprien Katsaris ( el, Κυπριανός Κατσαρής; born 5 May 1951) is a French- Cypriot virtuoso pianist, teacher and composer. Amongst his teachers were Monique de la Bruchollerie, a student of Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil o ...

Amir Katz Amir Katz, born 1973 in Ramat Gan, Israel, is an Israeli German pianist. He began to play the piano at the age of 11 and won his first national competitions in Israel four years later. He received scholarships to study in Europe, including at the ...

* Martin Katz *

Mindru Katz Mindru Katz (3 June 192530 January 1978) was a Romanian-Israeli classical pianist. Biography Katz was born to Jewish parents in Bucharest in 1925. He was discovered as a child prodigy by the noted composer George Enescu, and taught by Florica M ...

* Klaus Kaufmann *

Constance Keene Constance Keene (9 February 192124 December 2005) was an American pianist, who was renowned for her 1964 recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Preludes and won critical acclaim for her recordings of the works of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria vo ...

Rudolf Kehrer Rudolf Kehrer (10 July 1923 – 29 October 2013; surname also spelled Kerer) was a much-recorded Soviet and Russian classical pianist. Biography Kehrer was born in Tiflis, Georgia (later Tbilisi, Georgia Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილის� ...

Freddy Kempf Frederick Albert Kempf (born 14 October 1977) is a British pianist born in Croydon to a German father and a Japanese mother. He lives in Berlin. Early life Kempf was born in Croydon. He was educated at The Junior Kings School and St Edmund's ...

Wilhelm Kempff Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991) was a German pianist and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations ...

Kevin Kenner Kevin Kenner (born May 19, 1963 in Coronado, California) is an American concert pianist. Biography At the age of 17, Kenner was a finalist at the X International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Ten years later, in 1990 he returned to Warsaw ...

* Louis Kentner *

Olga Kern Olga Vladimirovna Kern (russian: Ольга Владимировна Керн; born Olga Pushechnikova, 23 April 1975) is a Russian-American classical pianist. She became an American citizen in 2016. Early life Olga Kern was born on 23 April 1975 ...

Stanislav Khegai Stanislav Khegai (born 1985) is a Kazakhstani pianist. He is the winner of the 2014 European Piano Contest Bremen and the prizewinner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels and the Concours ...

Frederick B. Kiddle Frederick B. Kiddle (1874 6 December 1951) was a prominent English pianist, organist and accompanist. Kiddle was born at Frome, Somerset, and studied at the Royal College of Music under Sir Walter Parratt, Rockstro and Higgs. In 1902 he became pri ...

Edward Kilenyi Edward Kilenyi Jr. (1910 – 2000) was a classical pianist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 7, 1910. Kilenyi studied in Hungary with the composer/pianist Ernő Dohnányi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, earning a diploma in 19 ...

* Angela Jia Kim * Benjamin Kim * Paul Kim * Izumi Kimura * Gary Kirkpatrick * John Kirkpatrick * Evgeny Kissin *

Anatole Kitain Anatole Kitain (russian: Анатолий Китаин; 17 September 190330 July 1980) was a Russian classical pianist. Early life Anatole Kitain was born in Saint Petersburg into a family of professional musicians. His brothers, Robert and Bor ...

Margaret Kitchin Margaret Kitchin (23 March 1914 – 16 June 2008) was a classical pianist, born in Switzerland but long resident in the United Kingdom. She was strongly associated with contemporary music and gave many premieres, including works by Michael Ti ...

Ivan Klánský Ivan Klánský (born 1948) is a Czech pianist. He studied at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with František Rauch (1968-1973) and at the Prague Conservatory with Valentina Kameníková (1963-1968). He is laureate of some of the most prestig ...

* Dmitri Klebanov *

Elisabeth Klein Elisabeth Klein (23 July 1911 – 11 October 2004) was a Hungarian-Danish pianist. Biography Elisabeth Klein was born in Trencsén (now Slovakia) and lived in Budapest, Hungary from the age of 3. At any early age she demonstrated a strong apti ...

Jacques Klein Jacques Klein (10 July 1930 – 24 October 1982) was a Brazilian composer and pianist. Born to a Jewish family in Aracati, he grew up in the nearby city of Fortaleza, where he began to study piano at the Conservatorio Alberto Nepomuceno, which wa ...

Walter Klien Walter Klien (27 November 1928 – 9 February 1991) was an Austrian pianist. ] Career Klien was born in Graz in 1928. His mother was the artist Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957). She emigrated to the United States in 1929, and their only furth ...

Eva Knardahl Eva Knardahl Freiwald (10 May 1927 – 3 September 2006) was a Norwegian pianist, with a noted career both as a child prodigy and adult performer. Her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12, in which she played three conce ...

Alexander Kobrin Alexander Yevgenyevich Kobrin (Александр Кобрин, born 20 March 1980 in Moscow) is a concert pianist and teacher. At age five, he enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow where his primary teacher was Tatiana Ze ...

Tobias Koch Tobias Koch (born September 11, 1968) is a German pianist. Biography Tobias Koch was born in Kempen. He attended the Robert Schumann Music College in Düsseldorf, and conservatories Vienna, Graz and Brussels. His chamber music partners ...

Zoltán Kocsis Zoltán Kocsis (; 30 May 1952 – 6 November 2016) was a Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer. Biography Studies Born in Budapest, he began his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in 19 ...

Raoul Koczalski Raoul Armand Jerzy (von) Koczalski (3 January 1884 – 24 November 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. He also used the pseudonym Georg Armand(o) Koczalski. Career Born in Warsaw, Koczalski was taught first by his mother, then by Julian Gad ...

Mari Kodama (born 1967) is a classical pianist who has performed in Europe, North America and Japan. Background Kodama was born in Osaka, Japan in 1967 and raised in Germany and Paris, France due to her father's postings in these countries as well as Switze ...

Alan Kogosowski Alan Kogosowski (born 22 December 1962) is an Australian classical pianist. Biography Abraham (Alan) Kogosowski was born in Melbourne to Hanna (née Prager) and Izio (Izzy) Kogosowski. From the age of six he played the piano for ten hours a day. ...

Pavel Kolesnikov Pavel Kolesnikov () (born 25 February 1989) is a Russian pianist and chamber musician. Life Born in Novosibirsk, Kolesnikov, the son of scientists, began learning the piano and violin at the age of six. In 2004, at the age of 15, he went to t ...

* Lubka Kolessa *

Alfons Kontarsky Aloys (14 May 1931 – 22 August 2017) and Alfons (9 October 1932 – 5 May 2010) Kontarsky were German duo-pianist brothers who were associated with a number of important world premieres of contemporary works. They had an international reputatio ...

Aloys Kontarsky Aloys (14 May 1931 – 22 August 2017) and Alfons (9 October 1932 – 5 May 2010) Kontarsky were German duo-pianist brothers who were associated with a number of important world premieres of contemporary works. They had an international reputatio ...

Yu Kosuge (born 1983) is a Japanese classical pianist. Kosuge was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1983. At the age of four, she entered Tokyo University of the Arts, having been selected under a programme aimed at providing specialist education to gifted childre ...

* Giorgio Koukl *

Stephen Kovacevich Stephen Kovacevich (born October 17, 1940) is an American classical pianist and conductor. He is particularly celebrated for his recordings of works by Beethoven, Bartók and Schubert, and is known for technical skill, clarity of playing and an ...

Denis Kozhukhin Denis Kozhukhin (born in Nizhny Novgorod, 1986) is a Russian pianist who was awarded third prize in the 2006 Leeds International Piano Competition. He was also awarded first prize in the 2010 Belgian Queen Elisabeth Competition for piano. Recordi ...

* Vladimir Krainev * Boris Krajný * Lili Kraus * Anna Kravtchenko *

Leonid Kreutzer Leonid Kreutzer (13 March 1884 in St. Petersburg – 30 October 1953 in Tokyo) was a classical pianist. Life and career Kreutzer was born in St. Petersburg into a Jewish family. He studied composition under Alexander Glazunov and piano under Anna ...

Vladimir Krpan Vladimir Krpan () (born January 11, 1938) is a Croatian pianist and piano pedagogue. He was born in Sveti Ivan Zelina in 1938. He graduated at the Zagreb Academy of Music in the class of Svetislav Stancic and won a master's degree at the San ...

Antonín Kubálek Antonín Kubálek (November 8, 1935January 18, 2011) was a Czech-Canadian classical pianist. Life and career Kubálek was born in Libkovice, Most District, Czechoslovakia and studied in Prague with Czech pianist František Maxián. He emigrated ...

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Elena Kuschnerova Elena Kuschnerova ( rus, Еле́на Ефи́мовна Кушнеро́ва, Yelena Yefimovna Kushnerova; born 6 January 1959 in Moscow) is a Russian-born classical pianist. Biography Elena Kuschnerova was born into a musical family in Moscow. ...

* Taeko Kuwata * Leonid Kuzmin *

Radoslav Kvapil Radoslav Kvapil (born 15 March 1934 in Brno) is an internationally acclaimed Czech pianist. At the end of the 20th century, he devoted his concert programmes to works by Frédéric Chopin, particularly in France, in the Chopin International Pi ...

Rena Kyriakou Rena Kyriakou (25 February 1917August 1994) was a pianist and composer born in Heraklion, Herakleion, Crete, Greece.Dubal, David (2004)''The Art of the Piano: Its Performers, Literature, and Recordings'' p. 208. Amadeus Press. Education Rena Kyr ...

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Katia Labèque Katia is a feminine given name. It is a variant of Katya. Notable people with this name Actresses and models *Katia Dandoulaki, Greek actress *Katia Margaritoglou, Greek fashion model and beauty contestant *Katia Winter (born 1983), Swedish ...

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Monique de La Bruchollerie Monique de La Bruchollerie (20 April 191515 December 1972) was a French classical concert pianist. Career La Bruchollerie was born in Paris. She came from a family of musicians, both François-Adrien Boieldieu and André Messager being among h ...

* Frank La Forge * Juhani Lagerspetz * Frederic Lamond * Geoffrey Lancaster *

Walter Landauer Walter Landauer (15 July 1896 – February 1978) was a German-American animal geneticist, who was interested particularly in chicken. Life Walter Landauer was born 1896 in Mannheim, Germany, to S. Friedrich and Charlotte Ziegler Landauer. His f ...

Wanda Landowska Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in t ...

Piers Lane Piers Lane (born 8 January 1958) is an Australian classical pianist. His performance career has taken him to more than 40 countries. His concerto repertoire exceeds 75 works. Early life Lane's English father and Australian mother met while au ...

Lang Lang Lang Lang (; born 14 June 1982) is a Chinese pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in China, North America, Europe, and elsewhere. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, ...

Milan Langer Milan Langer (born in Prague, 1955) is a Czech pianist. He won Smetana Competition and the Chopin Competition in Mariánské Lázně, and was prized at the 1976 Paloma O'Shea Competition. Langer is best known for his work as a member of thCzech Tr ...

Cosimo Damiano Lanza Cosimo Damiano Lanza (born 12 April 1962) is an Italian pianist, harpsichordist and composer. Biography Born in Leporano, Southern Italy, his artistic training was developed under the leadership of distinguished teachers, for the piano Michele ...

André Laplante André Laplante, (born November 12, 1949) is a Canadian ( Québécois) pianist. He received a 2004 Juno Award for the 2003 recording ''Concertos: Music of Jacques Hétu''. He is considered to be a Franz Liszt specialist and is much associated wi ...

* Adelina de Lara * Ruth Laredo * Alicia de Larrocha *

Ervin László Ervin László (; born 12 June 1932) is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, originally a classical pianist. He is an advocate of the theory of quantum consciousness. Early life and education László was ...

Jacob Lateiner Jacob Lateiner (March 31, 1928 – December 12, 2010) was a Cuban-American pianist. Early life and studies Though born on March 31, 1928, Lateiner's father did not get around to registering his birth until May 31 the same year. He was the br ...

Risto Lauriala Risto Vilho Johannes Lauriala (born 21 November 1949) is a Finnish classical pianist. Education Lauriala was born in Oulu, Finland. He studied at the Sibelius Academy (1969-'72), and completed a master's degree in piano in 1972. He graduated from ...

* George-Emmanuel Lazaridis *

Dejan Lazić Dejan Lazić (born in Zagreb, 1977) is a Croatian pianist and composer, and a naturalised Austrian citizen. He has appeared with such orchestras as the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham ...

* Igor Lazko * Philip Ledger *

Colleen Lee Colleen Lee Ka-ling (; born 11 October 1980) is a Hong Kong pianist who won the 6th place prize in the XV International Chopin Piano Competition in 2005. Biography Lee began piano lessons when she was four, and started studying with Miss Eleanor ...

Lee Kum-Sing Lee Kum-Sing () is a Canadian classical pianist and piano pedagogue originally from Sumatra. Biography Lee Kum-Sing studied with Gerhard Puchelt and Hans Richter-Haaser in Berlin and with Julius Katchen and Magda Tagliaferro in Paris. He d ...

Amy Lee Amy Lynn Hartzler (; born December 13, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is the co-founder, lead vocalist, and lead songwriter of the rock band Evanescence. Alongside her contributions with the band, Lee has also particip ...

* Noël Lee *

Yvonne Lefébure Yvonne Lefébure (29 June 1898, Ermont – 23 January 1986, Paris) was a French pianist and teacher. Born in Ermont, she studied with Alfred Cortot at the Conservatoire de Paris, taking a ''premier prix'' in piano and numerous other subjects. She ...

* Claire-Marie Le Guay * Kurt Leimer *

Ralph Leopold Ralph Leopold (14 February 188410 July 1955) was an American pianist and piano teacher. Biography Ralph Herman Leopold was born in 1884 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, the son of Howard Leopold. His sister Elizabeth Leopold married Newton D. Baker, w ...

Christian Leotta Christian Leotta (born 1980 in Catania, Italy) is an Italian virtuoso pianist. Leotta has performed and recorded all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas. He began his study of piano at the age of 7, furthering his studies at the Milan Conservatory under ...

Simon Lepper Simon Lepper is a British pianist specialising in song accompaniment and chamber music Biography Born in Canterbury, Lepper read music at King's College, Cambridge, and studied piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of M ...

Theodor Leschetizky Theodor Leschetizky (sometimes spelled Leschetitzky, pl, Teodor Leszetycki; 22 June 1830 – 14 November 1915 was an Austrian-Polish pianist, professor, and composer born in Landshut in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, then a crown land of ...

Ray Lev Ray Lev (May 8, 1912 – May 20, 1968) was an American classical pianist. One year after her birth in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, her father, a synagogue cantor, and mother, a concert singer, brought her to the United States. Life Lev’s early pia ...

Eric Le Van Eric Le Van (born June 14, 1964) is an American classical pianist particularly known for his interpretations of the music of Brahms and Scriabin. He is also an archivist of unusual repertoire. He has been guest soloist and recitalist in major fes ...

* Oscar Levant * Beth Levin * Robert Levin ''Norwegian pianist'' * Robert Levin ''American pianist'' * James Levine * Igor Levit *

Mischa Levitzki Mischa Levitzki (also spelled Levitski; uk, Міша Левицький (); May 25, 1898 – January 2, 1941) was a Russian-born U.S.-based concert pianist. Levitzki was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), to Jewi ...

* Daniel Levy *

Ernst Levy Ernst Levy (18 November 1895 – 19 April 1981) was a Swiss musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor. Life Born in Basel, Switzerland, Levy studied with Egon Petri and Raoul Pugno.. Entry: "Ernst Levy". David Dubal describes him as an "un ...

Raymond Lewenthal Raymond Lewenthal (August 29, 1923November 21, 1988) was an American virtuoso pianist. Among his teachers were Olga Samaroff, who was a pupil of Charles-Valentin Alkan's son, Élie-Miriam Delaborde. Biography Lewenthal was born in San Antonio, Tex ...

* Paul Lewis *

Josef Lhévinne Josef Lhévinne (13 December 18742 December 1944) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher. Lhévinne wrote a short book in 1924 that is considered a classic: ''Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing''. Asked how to say his name, he told ''The Li ...

* Rosina Lhévinne *

George Li George Li (; born August 24, 1995) is an American concert pianist who was a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2016 and silver medalist of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Early life George Li was born on August 24, 1995 ...

Ming-Qiang Li Li Ming-Qiang (, also spelled ''Li Min-Chan'') - is a Chinese classical pianist. He studied under Alfred Wittenberg and Tatiana Kravchenko, and as a young pianist in the late 1950s and early 1960s won awards at several Eastern European music comp ...

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Liberace Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. A child prodigy born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin, he enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordi ...

Francesco Libetta Francesco Libetta (born 16 October 1968) is an Italian pianist, composer and conductor. Biography Born in Galatone, Southern Italy, Francesco Libetta studied music in Italy (piano with Vittoria De Donno; contrapoint with Cosimo Colazzo and ...

Cecile Licad Cecile Buencamino Licad (born 11 May 1961) is a Filipina classical pianist. She was born in Manila. Awards * In 1981 Licad received the Leventritt Competition Gold Medal. * Her recording of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Saint-Saëns' Piano Co ...

John Lill John Richard Lill (born 17 March 1944 in London) is a British classical pianist. Biography Lill studied at the Royal College of Music with Angus Morrison, and with Wilhelm Kempff. His talent emerged at an early age, he gave his first piano rec ...

Dong-Hyek Lim Dong-Hyek Lim (born July 25, 1984 in Seoul) is a South Korean classical pianist. Lim has previously studied with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and received the Samsung Culture Scholarship and the Ezoe Scholarship ...

Dong-Min Lim Dong-Min Lim (born April 14, 1980, in Seoul) is a South Korean classical pianist. He and his brother Dong-Hyek Lim won third prize at the XV International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Dong Min Lim studied at the Moscow Conservatory, at t ...

Arthur Moreira Lima Arthur Moreira Lima (born July 16, 1940, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian classical pianist. Moreira Lima began learning the piano at the age of six. In 1965, he won second prize in the VII International Chopin Piano Competition, as wel ...

Jenny Lin Jenny Lin is a Taiwanese-born American pianist. Life She was born in Taiwan, and raised in Austria and the United States. She began her piano studies at the age of 4. At age 10, she was accepted into the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Aust ...

* Dinu Lipatti *

Jan Lisiecki Jan Lisiecki (; born March 23, 1995) is a Canadian-born classical pianist of Polish ancestry. Lisiecki performs over a hundred concerts annually and has worked closely with the world's leading orchestras and conductors, his career at the top of ...

* Valentina Lisitsa *

James Lisney James Lisney (born 6 May 1962) is a British concert pianist. He studied with Phyllis Sellick and John Barstow – and early success was achieved after he gained representation by the Young Concert Artists Trust. He has gained particular distincti ...

Eugene List Eugene List (July 6, 1918March 1, 1985) was an American concert pianist and teacher. Early life Eugene List was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, where his father Louis List (originally Lisnitzer) ...

* Andrew Litton *

Peter Lockwood Peter John Lockwood is an ICT professional and former Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from 2002 to 2006. He started working life in the Commonwealth Bank, but gave that up t ...

* Arthur Loesser * Nicolai Lomov *

Kathleen Long Kathleen (Ida) Long CBE (7 July 189620 March 1968) was an English pianist and teacher. Life and career Long was born in Brentford, a suburb of London in the UK. McVeagh, Diana"Long, Kathleen"''Grove Music Online'', Oxford Music Online, accessed ...

* Marguerite Long *

Thomas Lorango Thomas Lorango, American pianist, was born on June 8, 1959, in Buffalo, New York. He died of AIDS on December 30, 1992 in New York City. Life Lorango studied piano at the Curtis Institute of Music, where his teachers included Leon Fleischer, Mie ...

Roger Lord Roger Lord is a Canadian performing classical pianist and professor of piano at l'Université de Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Lord studied at Université de Moncton, McGill University, Université de Montréal, and the Moscow Piano ...

Wolfram Lorenzen Wolfram Lorenzen (1951/1952 – 15 June 2020) was a German pianist. Biography Wolfram Lorenzen was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic ...

* Yvonne Loriod *

Louis Lortie Louis Lortie, OC, CQ (born 27 April 1959) is a Canadian ( Québécois) pianist. Education Born in Montreal, Lortie made his debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the age of thirteen and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra three years l ...

Iris Loveridge Iris Gwendolyne M. Loveridge (10 April 1917 – 6 November 2000) was an English classical pianist. Born in West Ham, Essex, she attended the Royal College of Music, and later the Royal Academy. She specialised in British contemporary music, incl ...

* Jerome Lowenthal *

Alexei Lubimov Alexei Lubimov (born 1944 as Алексе́й Бори́сович Люби́мов, Alexey Borisovich Lyubimov) is a Russian pianist, fortepianist and harpsichordist. Lubimov studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Neuhaus and Lev Nau ...

* Nikolai Lugansky *

Jean-Marc Luisada Jean-Marc Luisada (born 3 June 1958) is a French pianist born in Bizerte, Tunisia. He started on the piano at six years old, "the normal age". Biography At the age of 16 he began studies at the Conservatoire de Paris under Dominique Merlet and Ma ...

* Radu Lupu *

Moura Lympany Dame Moura Lympany DBE (18 August 191628 March 2005) was an English concert pianist. Biography She was born as Mary Gertrude Johnstone at Saltash, Cornwall. Her father was an army officer who had served in World War I and her mother original ...

* Charles Lynch *

Clive Lythgoe Clive Lythgoe (9 April 1927 – 4 September 2006), was a leading British classical pianist of the 1950s and 1960s, popular in the UK and the United States, where he was considered to be "Britain's answer to Liberace" Early life He was born i ...

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Richard Markham Richard Markham is an English classical pianist. He was born in Grimsby, England, where he studied with Shirley Kemp and attended Wintringham Grammar School. By the age of 16 he had been awarded the LRAM and ARCM Performing Diplomas, become a ...

Alan Marks Alan Marks (London, 1957) is an English artist and illustrator. Marks studied at the Kent Institute of Art & Design, Medway College of Art and design from 1976 to 1977, and at the Bath Academy of Art from 1977 to 1980. He briefly taught at the Ba ...

Edwin McArthur Edwin McArthur (24 September 190724 February 1987) was an American classical music conductor, pianist and accompanist. From 1935 until his retirement in 1955 he was the usual accompanist of the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad. Life and career M ...

Stephanie McCallum Stephanie McCallum (born 3 March 1956) is a classical pianist. She has recorded works of Erik Satie, Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Carl Maria von Weber, Albéric Magnard, Pierre Boulez, and Iann ...

Leon McCawley Leon McCawley (born 12 July 1973) is a British classical pianist. He studied with Heather Slade-Lipkin at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and with Eleanor Sokoloff at The Curtis Institute of Music in the United States, and latterly pi ...

Joanna MacGregor Joanna Clare MacGregor (born 16 July 1959) is a British concert pianist, conductor, composer, and festival curator. She is Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and a professor of the University of London. She is currently artistic direc ...

* Murray McLachlan *

Geoffrey Douglas Madge Geoffrey Douglas Madge (born 3 October 1941) is an Australian classical pianist and composer. Biography Madge was born in Adelaide and took his first piano lessons at the age of eight. He later won the 1963 ABC Concerto and Vocal Competition. A ...

* Aleksandar Madžar *

Nikita Magaloff Nikita Magaloff (russian: Никита Магалов; 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 1918 for Finland. Hi ...

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...

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Petronel Malan Petronel Malan (born in Pretoria, South Africa) is a South African concert pianist based in the United States. Triple Grammy-nominated South African pianist Petronel Malan is an exclusive recording artist for the internationally recognized label ...

Yevgeny Malinin Yevgeny Malinin (8 November 19306 April 2001), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian pianist. Biography Malinin was born in Moscow. A disciple of Heinrich Neuhaus, he began his career while a student at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1949 he won (ex-a ...

Witold Małcużyński Witold Małcużyński (August 10, 1914July 17, 1977) was a distinguished Polish pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin. His playing was marked by great passion and poetry. Biography Małcużyński was born in 1914. He was the o ...

Plamena Mangova Plamena Mangova (born in Pleven, Bulgaria, 1980) is a classical pianist. Mangova studied with Marina Kapatsinskaya at the State Music Academy in Sofia. She went on to study with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, and ...

* Wolfgang Manz *

Rosario Marciano Rosario Marciano, born July 5, 1944, in Caracas, Venezuela, died there September 4, 1998, was a classical pianist, musicologist and teacher. Life and career Rosario Marciano was a musician who combined performance, scholarship and teaching. She ga ...

Adele Marcus Adele Marcus (February 22, 1906 May 3, 1995) was an American pianist and instructor whose career was based at the Juilliard School in New York City. Life and career Marcus was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the youngest of 13 children of a rabbi ...

Israela Margalit Israela Margalit is an American concert pianist, recording artist, playwright and television writer.Steven Leigh Morris Thursday, 17 Mar 2011, LA WeeklyJonas Oppenheim's Free $$$ and Israela Margalit's Trio Accessed 14 June 2014, "..Margalit is ...

Iren Marik Iren may refer to: Given name *Irén Ágay (1913–1950), Hungarian actress *Irén Daruházi-Karcsics (1927-2011), Hungarian retired gymnast * Iren Marik (1905-1986), Hungarian-born classical pianist * Irén Pavlics (born 1934), Hungarian Sloven ...

Ozan Marsh Ozan Marsh (June 25, 1920 in Pasadena, California – March 15, 1992) was a pianist active in concert performances throughout the world as well as across the United States. A disciple of Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Petri, Casadesus and von Sauer ...

* Oleg Marshev * Jean Martin * Philip Martin *

Malcolm Martineau Malcolm Martineau, OBE (born 3 February 1960) is a Scottish pianist who is particularly noted as an accompanist. Life Martineau was born to the pianist Hester Dickson Martineau and Canon George Martineau in 1960. He was an only child but he had ...

João Carlos Martins João Carlos Gandra da Silva Martins (); born June 25, 1940, in Sao Paulo, Brazil) is an acclaimed Brazilian classical pianist and conductor, who has performed with leading orchestras in the United States, Europe and Brazil. He is celebrated a ...

Jean-Pierre Marty Jean-Pierre Marty (12 October 1932 – 14 March 2024) was a French pianist and conductor. Biography Jean-Pierre Marty was born on 12 October 1932. He was first a pupil of Alfred Cortot, then of Julius Katchen. He started a piano career at the age ...

Draga Matkovic Draga may refer to: People * Draga (surname) * Draga (given name) Geography In Croatia: * Mošćenička Draga, a village and a municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County * Draga, Požega-Slavonia County, a village near Velika, Croatia * ...

Denis Matsuev Denis Leonidovich Matsuev ( rus, Дени́с Леони́дович Мацу́ев /ma'tsujef/; born June 11, 1975) is a Russian classical pianist and occasional jazz performer. Biography Born in Irkutsk, Soviet Union, Matsuev is the only child o ...

* Yuki Matsuzawa * Andrew Matthews-Owen * František Maxián * Lincoln Mayorga *

Nikolai Medtner Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер, ''Nikoláj Kárlovič Métner''; 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the 25 years immedi ...

* Alexander Melnikov * Hephzibah Menuhin *

Yaltah Menuhin Yaltah Menuhin (7 October 1921 – 9 June 2001) was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet. Early life Yaltah was born in San Francisco, the youngest of three extraordinarily musically gifted children. Her siblings were Yehudi Menuhin ...

* Yolanda Mero *

Frank Merrick Frank Merrick CBE (1886–1981) was an English pianist and composer in the early 20th century.Obituary, ''The Times'', 21 February 1981, p. 14 Life Merrick was born in Clifton, Bristol, Clifton, now part of Bristol, the son of musical parents.Me ...

Janne Mertanen Janne Juhani Mertanen (born 28 August 1967 in Joensuu, Finland) is a Finnish classical pianist. Life and career Janne Mertanen has studied at the Joensuu Conservatory as a student of Matti Haapasalo and at the Sibelius Academy where his teachers ...

Victor Merzhanov Victor Karpovich Merzhanov (russian: Ви́ктор Ка́рпович Мержа́нов) (15 August 191920 December 2012) was a Russian pianist and People's Artist of the USSR (1990). Biography Merzhanov was born in Tambov and studied at Tamb ...

Noel Mewton-Wood Noel Mewton-Wood (20 November 19225 December 1953) was an Australian-born concert pianist who achieved international fame on the basis of many distinguished concerto recordings during his short life. Life and career Born in Melbourne, he studied ...

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Aleksander Michałowski Aleksander Michałowski (17 October 1938) was a Polish pianist, pedagogue and composer who, in addition to his own immense technique, had a profound influence upon the teaching of pianoforte technique, especially in relation to the works of Chopi ...

* Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli *

Miloš Mihajlović Miloš Mihajlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Михајловић; born 1 June 1978, in Niš, Serbia) is a Serbian pianist and university professor. Education Miloš Mihajlović is a 1999 graduate of the ( University of Art) Faculty of Musi ...

* Hamish Milne * Vladimir Mischouk *

Yoko Misumi is a Japanese classical pianist. Misumi was born in Kyoto, Japan to a musical family and started piano lessons from a very early age. At age 14, she received the Second Prize in the prestigious Kyoto Piano Competition. After graduating from ...

Gertrude Lightstone Mittelmann Gertrude Lightstone Mittelmann, also Gertrude Mittelmann, and Mrs. Jesse Mittelmann (8 February 1907 – 25 October 1956, New York City), was an American concert pianist. The daughter of a well-known New York surgeon, Dr. Abraham (Albert) Lightst ...

Evgeny Mogilevsky Evgeny Gedeonovich Mogilevsky (russian: Евгений Гедеонович Могилевский; 16 September 1945 – 28 January 2023) was a pianist. Son and pupil of Seraphima Mogilevsky at the Stolyarsky Music school in his hometown Odesa, U ...

Benno Moiseiwitsch Benno Moiseiwitsch CBE (22 February 18909 April 1963) was a Russian-born British pianist. Biography Moiseiwitsch was born to Jewish parents in Odessa, Russian Empire (today part of Ukraine), and began his studies at age seven with Dmitry Klimo ...

Gabriela Montero Gabriela Montero (born May 10, 1970) is a Venezuelan pianist, known in particular for her real-time improvisation of complex musical pieces on themes suggested by her audience and other sources, as well as for performances of standard classical r ...

Sergio Monteiro Sergio Monteiro (12 February 1974) is a Brazilian pianist. He began studying the piano at the age of 4 and went on to work under the guidance of Myrian Dauelsberg at the National Music School of Rio de Janeiro, where he completed the bachelor's ...

* Gerald Moore *

Ivan Moravec Ivan Moravec (9 November 1930 – 27 July 2015) was a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career spanned nearly half a century. Media and critics worldwide often called Moravec "a poet of the piano" or "pianist supreme". He is cons ...

* Leszek Możdżer * Ian Munro *

Mieczysław Munz Mieczysław Munz (October 31, 1900, Kraków – August 25, 1976) was a Polish-American pianist. Munz trained in Vienna and Berlin, with Ferruccio Busoni. He was a teacher of Emanuel Ax, Walter Hautzig, David Oei, Ann Schein, Virginia Reinec ...

* Roger Muraro *

William Murdoch William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor. Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten yea ...

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William Grant Naboré The pianist and pedagogue, William Grant Nabore’ was born in Roanoke, Virginia (USA) where he studied with Kathleen Kelly Coxe, a pupil of Alexander Siloti, the teacher of Sergej Rachmaninov and afterwards with the eminent musicologist, Anne ...

* Marina Nadiradze * Jon Nakamatsu *

Hiroko Nakamura was a Japanese pianist. Born Hiroko Fukuda in Yamanashi, she grew up in Tokyo. She began to study piano at the age of 3 at Toho Gakuen School of Music under Aiko Iguchi. In 1959, whilst a student at Chutobu Junior High School, she won first ...

* Alexei Nasedkin * Soheil Nasseri * Martha Naset *

Yves Nat Yves Philippe Avit Nat (29 December 1890 – 31 August 1956) was a French pianist and composer. Biography Nat was born in Béziers and showed an early aptitude for both piano and composition. By the age of seven he was allowed to improvise eac ...

Lev Natochenny Lev Natochenny (Russian: Лев Наточенный) (born January 26, 1950) is a Russian-American classical pianist and professor of piano. Born in Moscow, Natochenny graduated from the Moscow "Tchaikovsky" Conservatoire, where he was taught by ...

Eldar Nebolsin Eldar Nebolsin (born 1974) is an Uzbek-born classical pianist. Biography Born in Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union) in 1974, Nebolsin started studying piano at early age in his native country. In 1991 he moved to Madrid to study with ...

Anton Nel Anton Nel (born December 29, 1961) is a South African classical pianist. Biography Nel was born to Afrikaans-speaking parents in Johannesburg, South Africa. Nel made his debut at the age of twelve with Beethoven's C Major Concerto after only two ...

Pascal Nemirovski Pascal Nemirovski (born 1962) is a French pianist. In 1981, he was admitted to the Juilliard School on full scholarship (Steinway & Freundlich Fund) and studied with Nadia Reisenberg, pupil of Josef Hofmann and Adele Marcus, pupil of Josef Lhevi ...

* Heinrich Neuhaus *

Stanislav Neuhaus __NOTOC__ Stanislav Genrikhovich Neuhaus (Russian: Станислав Генрихович Нейгауз) (21 March 192724 January 1980) was a Soviet-Russian classical pianist, and son of the pianist and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus. Neuhaus was ...

* Anthony Newman *

Elly Ney Elly Ney (27 September 1882 – 31 March 1968) was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany. Career She was born in Düsseldorf, where her mother was a music instructor and her father was a r ...

Reid N. Nibley Reid Neibaur Nibley (5 January 192325 February 2008) was an American pianist, composer and music educator. He wrote the words and music to the Latter-day Saint hymn "I Know My Father Lives". Nibley was born to Alexander Nibley and his wife Agnes ...

Francesco Nicolosi Francesco Nicolosi (born 7 December 1954) is an Italian pianist. Biography Nicolosi was born in Catania, Italy. He has lived in Naples, Italy since 1973 where he studied with Vincenzo Vitale. Since 1996 he is the president of the Sigismund Thalb ...

Stanislas Niedzielski Stanislas Niedzielski (1905–1975) was a Polish pianist, noted for his playing of Chopin. His given name is also seen as ''Stanislaw'' or ''Stanislaus''. He was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1905 and studied with Józef Śliwiński and Henryk ...

Mitja Nikisch Mitja Nikisch was a classical pianist and dance band leader, born in Leipzig, Germany on 21 May 1899 and died in Venice, Italy on 5 August 1936. Career Mitja Nikisch was the son of the celebrated Hungarian orchestral conductor Arthur Nikisch an ...

* Tatiana Nikolayeva *

Andrei Nikolsky Andrei Vladimirovich Nikolsky (Russian: Андрей Владимирович Никольский; 1959 in Moscow - 3 February 1995 near Waterloo Waterloo most commonly refers to: * Battle of Waterloo, a battle on 18 June 1815 in which Napoleon ...

Minoru Nojima was a Japanese classical pianist. At the time of his death he was President of the Tokyo College of Music. Biography Minoru Nojima was a child prodigy in Japan, won a major nationwide competition there as a teenager, studied with Lev Oborin in ...

David Owen Norris David Owen Norris, (born 1953) is a British pianist, composer, academic, and broadcaster. Early life Norris was born in 1953 in Long Buckby in Northamptonshire, England, later attending Daventry Grammar School. He took lessons locally from c ...

Eunice Norton Eunice Norton (June 30, 1908 – December 9, 2005) was an American pianist. Life and career Mrs. Norton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She studied as a child at the University of Minnesota with William Lindsay, who later introduced ...

Guiomar Novaes Guiomar Novaes (February 28, 1895 – March 7, 1979) was a Brazilian pianist known for individuality of tone and phrasing, singing line, and a subtle and nuanced approach to her interpretations. Biography Born in São João da Boa Vista (in the a ...

Marie Novello Marie Novello, also known as Marie Novello Williams (born Maria Williams; 31 March 1884 – 21 June 1928) was a Welsh pianist. She was one of Theodor Leschetizky's last students and performed in public from childhood. Her early death cut sho ...

Theodosia Ntokou Theodosia Ntokou ( el, Θεοδοσία Ντόκου, Rhodes Greece) is a Greek classical pianist. Biography Theodosia Ntokou was born on the island of Rhodes to a family of music lovers. Her mother, Mary Vergoti is a school teacher, her fath ...

Ruth Nye Ruth Nye MBE (born 1932) is an Australian pianist and teacher, based in the United Kingdom. Ruth Nye, born Ruth Farren-Price, sister of fellow pianist Ronald Farren-Price, grew up in Australia where she attended Methodist Ladies' College in Melbo ...

Ervin Nyiregyházi Ervin Nyiregyházi (January 19, 1903, BudapestApril 8, 1987, Los Angeles) was a Hungarian-American pianist and composer. After several years on the concert stage in the 1920s, he descended into relative obscurity before briefly reemerging in the ...

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Lev Oborin Lev Nikolayevich Oborin (russian: Лев Николаевич Оборин, ''Lev Nikolaevič Oborin''; Moscow, Moscow, 5 January 1974) was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer and pedagogue. He was the winner of the first International Chopin ...

* John O'Conor * Noriko Ogawa *

John Ogdon John Andrew Howard Ogdon (27 January 1937 – 1 August 1989) was an English pianist and composer. Biography Career Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, and attended the Manchester Grammar School, before studying at the Ro ...

* Garrick Ohlsson * Vikingur Olafsson *

Max Olding Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1 ...

Janusz Olejniczak Janusz Olejniczak (; born 2 October 1952 in Wrocław) is a Polish classical pianist and actor. Career Olejniczak began playing piano at the age of six. He studied under Luiza Walewska, Ryszard Bakst and Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw and Łód ...

* Gülsin Onay *

Bart van Oort Bart van Oort (born June 6, 1959) is a Dutch classical pianist. Biography Van Oort was born in Utrecht. After completing his studies in modern piano in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 1983, he studied fortepiano there with Stanley Hoog ...

Ursula Oppens Ursula Oppens (born February 2, 1944) is an American classical concert pianist and educator. She has received five Grammy Award nominations. Biography Ursula Oppens was born on February 2, 1944, in New York City into a highly musical family fr ...

Gerhard Oppitz Gerhard Oppitz (born 5 February 1953, Frauenau) is a German classical pianist. He studied with Paul Buck, Hugo Steurer and Wilhelm Kempff. In 1981 he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater MünchenChristopher O'Riley * Mícéal O'Rourke *

Lambert Orkis Lambert Orkis (born 1946, Philadelphia) is an American classical pianist. His career has been based on many differing roles: ranging from being the collaborative pianist for Anne-Sophie Mutter for works of piano and violin chamber music since 198 ...

Leo Ornstein Leo Ornstein (born ''Лев Орнштейн'', ''Lev Ornshteyn''; – February 24, 2002) was an American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative ...

* Rafael Orozco * Cristina Ortiz * Steven Osborne *

Alexander Osminin Alexander Petrovich Osminin (russian: Александр Осминин; born November 19, 1981) is a Russian classical pianist who gives concerts throughout the world. Biography Alexander Osminin was born in Moscow. From 1988 till 1997, he ...

Alice Sara Ott is a German classical pianist. Early life and education Alice was born in Munich, Germany, in 1988. Her Japanese mother had studied piano in Tokyo; her father was a German civil engineer. She says she realised as a child that "music was the la ...

Cécile Ousset Cécile Ousset (born 23 January 1936) is a French pianist. Cécile Ousset was born in Tarbes, France, and gave her first recital at the age of five, subsequently studying at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 10 with Marcel Ciampi (who had fo ...

* Vladimir Ovchinnikov

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Ian Pace Ian Geoffrey Pace (born 1968) is a British pianist. Pace studied at Chetham's School of Music, The Queen's College, Oxford and the Juilliard School in New York City, New York. His main teacher was the Hungarian pianist György Sándor. Repertoi ...

* Vladimir de Pachmann * Ignacy Jan Paderewski * Max Olding and Pamela Page, Pamela Page * Kun-Woo Paik * Piotr Paleczny * Josef Páleníček * Jon Kimura Parker * Geoffrey Parsons (pianist), Geoffrey Parsons * Natalya Pasichnyk * Pekinel sisters, Güher Pekinel * Pekinel sisters, Süher Pekinel * Leonard Pennario * Murray Perahia * Neal Peres Da Costa * Alfredo Perl * Vlado Perlemuter * Vincent Persichetti * Egon Petri * Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, Nikolai Petrov * Christina Petrowska-Quilico * Isidor Philipp * Edith Picht-Axenfeld * Andrzej Pikul * Cecilia Pillado * Maria João Pires * Artur Pizarro * Francis Planté * Mikhail Pletnev * Jonathan Plowright * Ivo Pogorelić * Daniel Pollack * Maurizio Pollini * Jean-Bernard Pommier * Antonio Pompa-Baldi * Michael Ponti * Roland Pöntinen * Paul Posnak * Viktoria Postnikova * Harrison Potter * Leff Pouishnoff * Francis Poulenc * Jonathan Powell (musician), Jonathan Powell * Awadagin Pratt * Menahem Pressler * André Previn * Vassily Primakov * Paul Procopolis - a pseudonym * Sergei Prokofiev * Roland Pröll * Roberto Prosseda * Svetla Protich * Dana Protopopescu * Raoul Pugno

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* Anne Queffélec

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* Alexander Raab * Sergei Rachmaninoff * Karol Radziwonowicz * Matti Raekallio * Thomas Rajna * Beatrice Rana * Dezső Ránki * Rein Rannap * Ilya Rashkovsky * Siegfried Rapp * Michael Raucheisen * Maurice Ravel * Rawicz and Landauer, Marjan Rawicz * Alexander Raytchev * Walter Rehberg * Aribert Reimann * Lívia Rév * Alberto Reyes * Sviatoslav Richter * Hans Richter-Haaser * Robert Riefling * Joshua Rifkin * Bernard Ringeissen * Édouard Risler * André Ristic * Bernard Roberts * Santiago Rodriguez (pianist), Santiago Rodriguez, * Pascal Rogé * Michael Roll (pianist), Michael Roll * Helmut Roloff * Aleksandra Romanić * Landon Ronald * Martin Roscoe * Jerome Rose * Charles Rosen * Carol Rosenberger * Moriz Rosenthal * Mstislav Rostropovich * Nicholas Roth * Jacques Rouvier * Gennady Rozhdestvensky * Mūza Rubackytė * Arthur Rubinstein * Mikhail Rudy * Antonio Ruiz-Pipò * Walter Rummel * Frederic Rzewski

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* Geoffrey Saba * Vasily Safonov * Camille Saint-Saëns * Pnina Salzman * Olga Samaroff * Harold Samuel * Esteban Sánchez, Esteban Sánchez Herrero * György Sándor * Victor Sangiorgio * Jesús Maria Sanromá * Wassily Sapellnikoff * David Saperton * Alexander Satz * Emil von Sauer *:fr:Jean-Marc Savelli, Jean-Marc Savelli * Wolfgang Sawallisch * Fazıl Say * Ergican Saydam * Pietro Scarpini * Irene Scharrer * Xaver Scharwenka * Sergey Schepkin * Olga Scheps * Ann Schein Carlyss * Valentin Schiedermair * András Schiff * Victor Schiøler * Steffen Schleiermacher * Burkard Schliessmann * Peter Schmalfuss * Helmut Schmidt * E. Robert Schmitz * Artur Schnabel * Karl Ulrich Schnabel * Edwin Schneider * Andre-Michel Schub * Alexander Scriabin * Kathryn Selby * Blanche Selva * Pavel Serebryakov (Paul Serebriakov) * Peter Serkin * Rudolf Serkin * Hüseyin Sermet * Dimitris Sgouros * Regina Shamvili * Tatiana Shebanova * Mordecai Shehori * Howard Shelley * Anatoly Sheludyakov * Russell Sherman * Norman Shetler * Dmitri Shostakovich * Naum Shtarkman * Leonard Shure * Valery Sigalevitch * Antti Siirala * Alexander Siloti * Abbey Simon * Leo Sirota * Larry Sitsky * Katia Skanavi * Harrison Slater * Ruth Slenczynska * Alexander Slobodyanik * Sigurd Slåttebrekk * Regina Smendzianka * Jan Smeterlin * Leo Smit (Dutch composer), Leo Smit * Cyril Smith (pianist), Cyril Smith * Ronald Smith (musician), Ronald Smith * Wibi Soerjadi * Evgeny Soifertis * Vladimir Sofronitsky * Grigory Sokolov * Juan María Solare * Solomon (pianist), Solomon * Yonty Solomon * Georg Solti * Wonny Song * Gonzalo Soriano * Pietro Spada * Leslie Spotz * Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak * Peter Stadlen * Martin Stadtfeld * Andreas Staier * Bernhard Stavenhagen * Susan Starr * Pavel Štěpán * Edna Stern * Eduard Steuermann * Ronald Stevenson * Kathryn Stott * Richard Strauss * Igor Stravinsky * Soulima Stravinsky * Yevgeny Sudbin * Iyad Sughayer * Grete Sultan * Alexei Sultanov * Mei-Ting Sun * Sage Araneta * Yingdi Sun * Rose and Ottilie Sutro * Yevgeny Svetlanov * Ruslan Sviridov * Tomáš Svoboda (composer), Tomáš Svoboda * Jeffrey Swann * David Syme (pianist), David Syme * Roberto Szidon * Balázs Szokolay * Władysław Szpilman

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* Gabriel Tacchino * Magda Tagliaferro * Mark Taimanov * Aki Takahashi * Yūji Takahashi * Ani Takidze * Duo Tal & Groethuysen, Yaara Tal * Rosa Tamarkina * Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, Alexander Tamir * Melvyn Tan * Rüya Taner * Sergei Tarnowsky * André Tchaikowsky * Simon Tedeschi * Per Tengstrand * Louis Teicher * Gerardo Teissonniere * Alfred Teltschik * Alexandre Tharaud * Jean-Yves Thibaudet * François-Joël Thiollier * Penelope Thwaites * Germaine Thyssens-Valentin * Ignaz Tiegerman * Sergio Tiempo * Michael Tilson Thomas * Hugh Tinney * Maria Tipo * Martino Tirimo * James Tocco * Dubravka Tomsic * Alexander Toradze * Donald Tovey * Geoffrey Tozer * Max Trapp * Daniil Trifonov * Malcolm Troup * Simon Trpčeski * Valerie Tryon * Nobuyuki Tsujii * Anna Tsybuleva * David Tudor * Rosalyn Tureck * Ronald Turini * Anderson Tyrer

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* Zeynep Üçbaşaran * Mitsuko Uchida * Ayako Uehara (pianist), Ayako Uehara * Fredrik Ullén * Imre Ungár * Alexander Uninsky * Rem Urasin * Mihaela Ursuleasa

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* Arbo Valdma * Vladimir Valjarević * Arie Vardi * Tamás Vásáry * Kosti Vehanen * Duo Vela, Ester Vela * Duo Vela, Eulalia Vela * Ilana Vered * Arielle Vernède * Matthijs Verschoor * José Vianna da Motta * Vladimir Viardo * Carlo Vidusso * Roger Vignoles * Ricardo Viñes * Anna Vinnitskaya * Lev Vinocour * Eliso Virsaladze * Stefan Vladar * Pancho Vladigerov * Lev Vlassenko * Lars Vogt * Aleksey Volodin * Arcadi Volodos * Andrew von Oeyen * Franz Vorraber * Ralph Votapek * Vronsky & Babin, Vitya Vronsky

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* Vanessa Wagner * Bruno Walter * Jue Wang * Yuja Wang * Adelbert Theodor Wangemann, Theo Wangemann * Andrzej Wasowski * Ashley Wass * Huw Watkins * André Watts * Janice Weber * Beveridge Webster * François Weigel * Nancy Weir * Alan Weiss (musician), Alan Weiss * Orion Weiss * Alexis Weissenberg * Ueli Wiget * Earl Wild * David Wilde * Gerard Willems * Llŷr Williams * Malcolm Williamson * Paul Wittgenstein * Daniel Wnukowski * Ernst Victor Wolff * Eleanor Wong (musician), Eleanor Wong * See Siang Wong * Roger Woodward * Bolesław Woytowicz * Roger Wright (pianist), Roger Wright * Friedrich Wührer * Klara Würtz

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* Di Xiao

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* Oxana Yablonskaya * Marina Yakhlakova * Vladimir Yampolsky * Ivan Yanakov (pianist) * Joyce Yang * Ventsislav Yankov, Ventsislav Yankoff * Ramzi Yassa * Anna Yesipova (Annette Essipova) * Christine Yoshikawa * Maria Yudina * Li Yundi (see Li)

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* Franciszek Zachara * Christian Zacharias * Yakov Zak * Berenika Zakrzewski * Irina Zaritskaya * Carlo Zecchi * Dieter Zechlin * Mark Zeltser * Mélodie Zhao * Zhu Xiao-Mei * Igor Zhukov * Lilya Zilberstein * Krystian Zimerman * Tadeusz Żmudziński

References

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