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Biography of Vladimir Ashkenazy
Name: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Birth Date: July 6, 1937
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Gorky, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: pianist, conductor, recording artist
Vladimir Ashkenazy
An internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and concert conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy (born 1937) has made music with some of the most prestigious orchestras and soloists. In addition, he has recorded a large storehouse of classical and romantic works. His virtuoso recordings have earned him five Grammy awards plus Iceland's Order of the Falcon.Born to Evstolia Plotnova and David Ashkenazy in Gorky (now Nizhni Novgorod), Russia, on July 6, 1937, Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy showed talent early in his childhood. He attended Moscow's Central Music School and the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Anaida Sumbatyan and Lev Oborin. In his late teens, he won second place in an international Chopin piano competition in Warsaw, Poland. In 1956, he won first prize in the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels, Belgium. At the age of 23, Ashkenazy married Icelandic pianist and fellow student Thorunn Johannsdottir, who became his travel manager and the mother …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…December 17, 1982.New Yorker, April 20, 1981; October 19, 1981.New York Times, December 27, 1981; October 4, 1996; March 12, 1997; November 24, 1997; March 26, 2000; March 29, 2000.People Weekly, June 15, 1981; March 29, 1982.Progressive, January 1984.San Francisco, May 1981; March 1984.Stereo Review, June 1980; November 1980; July 1981; October 1981; October 1982; January 1983; February 1983; April 1983; December 1983; January 1984; January 1995; April 1995; May 1995; July 1996.Swiss News, June 2000.The Washington Post, January 23, 1985; March 10, 1997; November 25, 1997.Yale Review, Winter 1981; Spring 1981; October 1982; Autumn 1983; Spring 1984."Ashkenazy, Vladimir," Biography.Com,http://search. biography.com/cgi-bin/ frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//search.biography.com/ print_record.pl%3Fid%3D3955 (October 29, 2001).Biography Resource Center, http://galenet. galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (October 28, 2001).Contemporary Authors Online, The Gale Group, 2000 (October 28, 2001)."Shostakovich and the Soviet State," Shostakovichiana, http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/ ash/ash.html (October 29, 2001)."Vladimir Ashkenazy," http://tms.hkcampus.net/~tms95225/ashkenazy.htm (October 29, 2001)."Vladimir Ashkenazy," http://www.koningin-elisabethwedstrijd. be/bots/archives/ bio/ashkenazycv.html (October 29, 2001)."Vladimir Ashkenazy," The Greater Princeton Steinway Society, http://www. princetonol.com/groups/steinway/Ashkenazy.htm (October 29, 2001).
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