PIANO JURY - G.Gershwin Music Competition 2017
Michael Bulychev-Okser (United States)
Competition Artistic Director & Chairman
A top prizewinner of many international competitions in USA, Italy, Andorra, Spain and Mexico, pianist Michael Bulychev-Okser was born in Moscow, Russia in a family of distinguished musicians. He composed and played music since the age of seven. Because of Michael’s early and extraordinary talent […]
Richard Glazier (United States)
Every artist has an epiphany. For classically-trained, award-winning pianist Richard Glazier, it happened at age nine, when he saw the film “Girl Crazy” with a score by George & Ira Gershwin. He was so excited by the music he heard, he was prompted to write a fan letter to famed lyricist Ira Gershwin. After corresponding with each other for three years, Gershwin invited his young friend, then 12, to meet him in Beverly Hills.
During their visit, Ira asked Glazier to play
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Gerrald Robbins (United States)
Pianist Gerald Robbins has distinguished himself internationally as a soloist and chamber musician having performed throughout the world in virtually every major music center including New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Bonn, Munich, Athens, Frankfurt, Belgrade, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo. In November 2016, Gerald Robbins was a recipient of Armstrong Chamber Concerts’ Lifetime Achievement Award with […]
Merab Ebralidze (Georgia/United States)
Merab Ebralidze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He graduated from Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili Music College and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance. He then continued his studies at the V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatory, where he graduated with honors from the Master’s Program in Piano Performance. […]
Dorian Leljak (Serbia)
Dorian Leljak has won several international piano competitions (including the Rachmaninov Competition - Belgrade, Novi Sad Piano Competition) and been awarded numerous prizes, including a University of Novi Sad Merit Award, Yale University Mary Clapp Howell, Irving Gilmore and Parisot Prizes. He enjoys successful career worldwide as a pianist and has appeared in recital and with orchestras including the Windstrings Orchestra, Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia […]
Krystian Tkaczewski (United States/Poland)
Hailed as “Polish Virtuoso,” Krystian Tkaczewski is pursuing his splendid piano career in USA, Asia and Europe. He had his triumph in having Carnegie Hall Debut in April 2007. Anthony Aibel (critic of New York Concert Review) wrote among others: Tkaczewski was elegant, showed in-depth knowledge, played with passion, showed power-house technic. Reading of Rachmaninov and of Prokofiev was excellent. Szymanowski was exquisitely shaped, showing lovely shadings and […]
Jose Ramos Santana (Puerto Rico)
Jose Ramos Santana has appeared as a guest soloist with major orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Detroit Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, 92nd Street Y Orchestra, The New York Virtuosi, Casals Festival Orchestra, Puerto Rico Symphony, and the orchestras of […]
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