Yevgeny Malinin (8 November 19306 April 2001), PAU, was a

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and

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n pianist.

Biography

Malinin was born in

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. A disciple of

Heinrich Neuhaus Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus ( pl, Henryk (Harry) Neuhaus, russian: Ге́нрих Густа́вович Нейга́уз, Genrikh Gustavovič Nejgauz, 10 October 1964) was a Russian-born pianist and teacher of German and Polish extraction. Part of ...

, he began his career while a student at the

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

. In 1949 he won (ex-aequo with his fellow student Tamara Guseva) the International Youth and Students Festival in Budapest, and was awarded the 7th prize at the

IV International Chopin Piano Competition The IV International Chopin Piano Competition ( pl, IV Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) was held from 15 September to 15 October 1949 in Warsaw. The first competition after World War II, it was held in connection with ...

; four years later he tied with

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 ...

for the 2nd prize at the Long-Thibaud Competition. He graduated in 1954, and served as Neuhaus's assistant for three years. He taught until 1998, and was head of the piano department at the Moscow Conservatory (1972–78). In 1976 he was a jury member for the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition.“Winners, members of the jury and artistic guests”
Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition Malinin was active as a concert pianist mainly in the USSR area, but also performed in Japan, USA, Great Britain, Poland, Spain, Finland and France, where he settled as a pedagogue, founding with

Thérèse Dussaut Thérèse Dussaut (born 20 September 1939) is a French pianist and music educator. Life Born in Versailles, the daughter of composers Robert Dussaut and Hélène Corvatti, Thérèse Dussaut studied piano in France with Marguerite Long and Pierr ...

a music institute (1988–91). He made several recordings for EMI or CBS during the 1960s and regularly for Melodya in USSR. He died in Kassel,

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aged 70. His brother Vladimir is a violinist.

References

Fryderyk Chopin Information Centre - Yevgeny Malinin
* Le Monde,

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, May 5, 2001 (obituary notice) 1930 births 2001 deaths Russian classical pianists Male classical pianists Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition prize-winners 20th-century classical pianists 20th-century Russian male musicians Soviet classical pianists {{Russia-classical-pianist-stub