NEBOLSIN, ELDAR (b 1974 )

Born in Tashkent in 1974, Eldar Nebolsin began piano studies at the age of five with Natalia Wasinkina. He went on to win the Young Russian Pianists Competition in Tbilisi when he was twelve, and the Radio Concertino Praga at the age of fourteen. His international career was launched with his triumph at the Eleventh Santander International Piano Competition in 1992 where he took, besides the Grand Prix, the Prize for the best performance of the Mozart concerto. This resulted in engagements with over 130 orchestras, and recital series and festivals all over the world. Engagements included appearances with the Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra in Lisbon. 

In March 1994 Nebolsin made his North American début with a highly acclaimed recital at New York’s 92nd Street Y. Subsequent North American engagements have included débuts with the Minnesota Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and the Baltimore, Chicago, St Louis and Montreal Symphonies under such conductors as Yuri Temirkanov, Riccardo Chailley, and Leonard Slatkin. He has also given recitals at the Kennedy Center in Washington and the Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto. He has since appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit and Houston Symphonies and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, and given recitals in the Herkuless Saal in Munich, Milan Conservatory, the Tonhalle Zürich and Carnegie Hall in Pittsburg. 

In October 1998 he appeared as a soloist on an extensive European tour with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Hans Vonk, later in the season returning to the Bamberg Symphony under Yakov Kreizberg. He made his Australian début with great success in Sydney and Melbourne under Lawrence Foster, and his career continues with performances in major concert halls throughout Europe and America. He has collaborated with distinguished colleagues in chamber music and in recordings. In 2005 Eldar Nebolsin became a winner of the First Richter International Piano Competition in Moscow and was awarded a special prize for the best performance of a Mozart piano concerto. He has studied with Dmitry Bashkirov in Madrid in the famous Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofía, where he now gives lessons in chamber music together with Ralf Gothoni, Menahem Pressler and Bruno Canino.

For more information, please go to http://www.eldarnebolsin.com/

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RACHMANINOV: Preludes for Piano (Complete)	8.570327