| Faculty |
| Dmitri
Berlinsky |
Yung
Chin |
| Meng-Chieh
Liu |
| AlexanderShtarkman |
| Boris Slutsky,
piano |
| Hao-Tun
Teng |
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| Boris
Slutsky, piano
Born in Moscow into a family
of musicians, Boris Slutsky immigrated to
the United States in 1977. His gave his
orchestral debut at Carnegie Hall with the
New York Youth Symphony in 1980. Just one
year later he drew international attention
by sweeping every major prize in the William
Kapell (University of Maryland) International
Piano Competition. At nineteen years of
age and as the youngest competitor he captured
not only the First Prize, but also the Audience
Prize and the Wihelm Backhaus Award. With
his versatility and musical authority he
has garnered major prizes at such widely
diverse arenas as New York’s Kosciuszko
Chopin Competition and Toronto’s International
Bach Competition in Memory of Glenn Gould,
as well as the Busoni, Rina Sala Gallo,
and the Ettore Pozzoli International Piano
Competitions.
In subsequent
years Mr. Slutsky appeared on nearly every
continent as soloist and recitalist, collaborating
with such eminent conductors as Dimitri
Kitaenko, Andrew Davis and Valery Gergiev.
He has performed with the Bergen Philharmonic
in Norway, the RAI Orchestra in Milan, Deutsche
Kammerphilharmonie Neuss am Rhein and Stuttgart
State Orchestra in Germany, Bern Symphony
Orchestra in Switzerland, KBS Symphony Orchestra
in Korea, with orchestras in Spain, Russia,
Colombia and Brazil. In South Africa he
has been a soloist with the orchestras of
Capetown, Durban, and Johannesburg. North
American engagements have included concerts
with the Baltimore, Florida, Utah and Toronto
Symphonies, among many others. Mr. Slutsky
has given solo recitals throughout the United
States, in France, Germany, Spain, Belgium,
Italy, Russia, Canada, Latin America and
the Far East. He has been heard in such
prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts, the Kaufmann Concert
Hall, Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan, Taipei’s National
Concert Hall, Seoul’s Performing Arts Center,
and Teatro Colon in Bogota. He has been
a guest artist at the Stars of White Nights
Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, International
Mikkeli Music Festival in Finland, and the
Rotterdam Philharmonic Philips Gergiev Festival.
As an active chamber musician, Mr. Slutsky
has performed with many renowned artists.
His most recognized chamber collaborations
have been with violinist Ilya Kaler. Since
1992, the Slutsky-Kaler duo has appeared in
New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, Korea,
Taiwan, Japan, and in major cities throughout
South Africa. They have been acclaimed for
their live performances as well as their superb
recording of the Schumann Violin and Piano
Sonatas on the Naxos label.
Mr. Slutsky received his early training
at Moscow’s Gnessin Academy for Gifted Children
as a student of Anna Kantor. He completed
his formal studies at the Juilliard School
and the Manhattan School of Music. Throughout
his career in the United States he continued
to work with his long time mentor Alexander
Eydelman.
Mr.
Slutsky joined the faculty of Peabody Conservatory
of Music in 1993 where he served as the Piano
Department Chair from 2000 until 2003.
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