Pascal Nemirovski (born 1962) is a French
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 ...
. In 1981, he was admitted to the
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School ( ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the most elit ...
on full scholarship (
Steinway
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's growth led to the opening of a ...
& Freundlich Fund) and studied with
Nadia Reisenberg
Nadia Reisenberg Sherman (14 July 1904 – 10 June 1983) was an American pianist of Lithuanian birth.
Biography
Nadia Reisenberg was born in Vilnius to a Jewish family. Her parents were Aaron and Rachel Reisenberg., adapted from Dr. Anne K. Gray' ...
, pupil of
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 A ...
and
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 rabb ...
, pupil of
Josef Lhevinne Josef may refer to
*Josef (given name)
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.
As a pedagogue, he enjoys an international reputation for presenting master classes throughout the world and is often a jury member at international piano competitions. His students include celebrated pianists
Lise de la Salle
Lise de la Salle (born 8 May 1988) is a French classical pianist.
Career
De la Salle first performed aged 9 on Radio France. At 12 years old, she won the First Prize of the Seventh International Contest of Ettlingen, Germany. She is also a pri ...
and
Louis Schwizgebel.
From 2006 to 2016, he taught at the
Royal Academy of Music in London, where in 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM). In 2012, he also became a teacher for the academy's LRAM teaching diploma. Since 2011, he has taught at
The Purcell School. In 2015, he was appointed guest professor at the
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a music school, drama school and concert venue in Birmingham, England. It provides professional education in music, acting, and related disciplines up to postgraduate level. It is a centre for scholarly res ...
, becoming a professor and international chair in piano in September 2016.
He is currently a visiting professor at the
Shanghai
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and
Guangzhou
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Conservatories in
China.
He also teaches at several summer music festivals, including the Edwin Fischer Sommerakademie (Germany), MusicAlp (France), Music Fest Perugia (Italy), and the Cadenza Summer School (UK). He was appointed artistic director and chairman of the jury of the Concours International de Piano Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Saint-Priest/Lyon, France) from 2017 to 2021. In 2023, He is appointed artistic director and chairman of the Madrid International Piano Competition.
Pascal Nemirovski is a Steinway artist.
References
External links
Official site of Pascal NemirovskiOfficial site of Madrid International Piano CompetitionGenealogy on Pianists Corner
21st-century French male classical pianists
1962 births
Academics of the Royal Academy of Music
Piano pedagogues
Living people
Juilliard School alumni
Academics of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
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