From Bach to Shostakovich
Prof. Lev Natochenny gives public master class at the Department of Piano
The Department of Piano at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar is delighted to welcome a top-class guest: Prof. Lev Natochenny has been recruited for two planned master classes to pass on his knowledge and experience to the students. The first course will now take place from Tuesday, 17 to Thursday, 19 October in the Liszt Salon of the Fürstenhaus (Room 108). External guests as well as students are welcome to listen, admission is free.
The master class is in the best tradition of previous master classes and invitations to special artistic personalities such as Lazar Berman, Klaus Schilde, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Imre Rohmann and Michel Dalberto. Eighteen students have registered. The works to be performed range from Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven to Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
"We are very happy that Prof. Natochenny accepted immediately and with great pleasure, since, as he said, he had already heard many excellent things about the Weimar piano training," says piano professor Christian Wilm Müller happily. The course times are on 17 October from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 to 6 p.m., on 18 October from 9 to 12 a.m. and from 6 to 9 p.m., and on 19 October from 9 to 12 a.m. and from 2 to 5 p.m.
Lev Natochenny received his training at the famous Moscow Conservatory, significantly influenced by Svyatoslav Richter and David Oistrakh. At the age of 19 he became assistant to Prof. Lev Oborin. Honours such as the gold medal "with special distinction" at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition as well as the Gina Bachauer Prize led to concerts as a pianist and conductor in Europe and the USA, among others with major American orchestras and the Russian National Orchestra.
Concert appearances with artists such as Mischa Maisky, Stanley Drucker, Vladimir Feltsman and Rustem Gabdullin followed, as did collaborations with the Philharmonic Orchestras of New York, Baltimore and Indianapolis.
Lev Natochenny gained worldwide recognition for his spontaneous, individual musical approach and his dedication to the artistic progress of his students. He has taught on the piano faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, The Mannes College of Music, New York City University and the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. He has also conducted master classes in the USA, Japan and Europe. Among his students are 27 prize winners of national and international piano competitions.
[13 October 2023]