- Yevgeny Malinin
Yevgeny Malinin (born in
Moscow , November 8, 1930) is aRussia n pianist. His brother Vladimir is a violinist.A disciple of
Heinrich Neuhaus , he began his career while a student at theMoscow Conservatory - in 1949 he won (ex-aequo with his fellow studentTamara Guseva ) the International Youth and Students Festival in Budapest, and was awarded the 7th prize at the IV Fryderyk Chopin competition; four years later he tied withPhilippe Entremont for the 2nd prize at the Long-Thibaud competition. He graduated in 1954, and served as Neuhaus' assistant for three years.Malinin has been active as a concert pianist mainly in the USSR area, but has also performed at Japan, Spain and France, where he settled as a pedagogue, founding a music institute at Dijon. He was previously a professor and the head of the piano department at the Moscow Conservatory (1972-78).
References
[http://en.chopin.nifc.pl/chopin/persons/detail/cat/3/page/4/id/2843 Fryderyk Chopin Information Centre - Yevgeny Malinin]
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