Dmitri Novgorodsky

Dmitri Novgorodsky is a classical pianist. He is the first Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory graduate in piano performance and the first Russian-Soviet musician who has earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance degree from Yale University.

Biography

Novgorodsky was born into a family of musicians in 1965 in Odessa, the former USSR. He began to play the piano at age five and was admitted into a special music school for gifted children a year later. By the age of 16, Mr. Novgorodsky had won the First Prize at the Kazakhstan National Piano Competition, and later the Gold Medal of the Kazakhstan National Festival of the Arts.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} In 1990, he graduated from the studio of professor Victor Merzhanov at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with high honors and qualifications of concert pianist, chamber musician and teacher.^[6] In 1992, he was offered a full scholarship to study at Yale University with Boris Berman.^[7] While at Yale, Novgorodsky received four Distinguished Honorary Awards for the best piano recitals and a Special Faculty Prize to an outstanding pianist in the graduating class.^[8]

In 1998, he was granted the "Extraordinary Abilities in the Arts" permanent US residence.^[9]

He graduated from Yale in 2003.^[10][11] Novgorodsky became an American citizen in 2004.

Career

Novgorodsky has appeared in Russia, Kazakhstan, France, Belarus, Ukraine, Israel, Canada, Austria, Turkey, Taiwan, and at such venues in the United States as Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Kennedy Center and "Sunday Afternoon Live" recital broadcasts on Wisconsin Public Radio. In April 2002, he became the only Moscow Conservatory alumnus to be honored by an invitation from Raisa Scriabine and the Scriabin Society of America to perform at a Special Scriabin Gala Concert for the Russian Ambassador to the United States.^[12][13]

Together with the clarinetist Arthur Campbell, Novgorodsky gave a world premiere to the "Prophesy from 47 Ursae Majoris" by Andrew Paul MacDonald in 2001.^[14][15][16] In 2001, the recording of this work won the Third Web Concert Hall Competition,^[17] which "...was created to open exciting new frontiers in the performance of serious music, from the point of view both of the performers and of those interested in hearing them, and to do so in a context which radically enlarges the educational impact of musical performance as we move into the Twenty First Century".^[18] The composition was released by "Gasparo Records" on CD "Premieres" in the same year.^{[19][20][21][22][23]} After teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and Grand Valley State University, Michigan, Novgorodsky was appointed as Assistant Professor of Piano at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin in 2003. He resigned his faculty position in 2008.^[24]

Reviews

The New Britain Herald, a newspaper in Connecticut, reviewed Novgorodsky's performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra in New Britain, Connecticut in May, 2001.^[25][26] His solo recital in February 2007 was reviewed by the Lawrence University student newspaper, The Lawrentian.^[27] His recent performance as a concerto soloist was reviewed by The Post-Crescent^[28] and by the Northeast Wisconsin Music Review.^[29]

References

1. ^ Dotzuk, Eugenia (February 10, 1982), "Musician's Snowflakes", Leninskaya Smena (in Russian): 5 
2. ^ ""Jiger" has named talents", Almaty Evening News (in Russian): 10–11, April 17, 1985 
3. ^ "Dmitri Novgorodsky", The Far Northeast Citizen-Sentinel 28 (40): 8, October 9, 1996 
4. ^ LaRoi, Heather (November 10, 2000), "Keyed Up", The Post Crescent: B–1–B–2 
5. ^ Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to host piano soloist, The New Britain Herald, May 2001
6. ^ List of Moscow Conservatory Alumni
7. ^ Boris Berman's homepage
8. ^ International Double Reed Society 2001 Conference, Biographies, p. 72
9. ^ University of Iowa Press Release: "Oboist Gullickson, UI alumna and visiting faculty member, will present recital"
10. ^ Doctoral of Musical Arts Recital, Yale Bulletin&Calendar, November 1, 2002
11. ^ Doctoral Degrees conferred in Yale School of Music. May 26, 2003 Commencement
12. ^ The Scriabine Foundation
13. ^ Scriabin Society of America's Events
14. ^ Arthur Campbell's page
15. ^ List of Andrew Paul McDonald's compositions performed in major venues
16. ^ "Prophesy from 47 Ursae Majoris"
17. ^ Winners of the Web Concert hall Competition
18. ^ About the International Web Concert Hall Competition
19. ^ Gasparo Records
20. ^ The CD "Premieres"
21. ^ H&B Recordings Direct, Album Detail
22. ^ MacDonald, Andrew Paul. Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
23. ^ The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
24. ^ Nixon, Deborah (May 23, 2008), "Piano Department faces the loss of three faculty members", The Lawrentian: 3, http://64.233.169.132/search?q=cache:arN_dgXvp_AJ:www.lawrentian.com/news/2008/05/23/News/Piano.Department.Faces.The.Loss.Of.Three.Faculty.Members-3374008.shtml+Dmitri+Novgorodsky&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=14&gl=us&client=firefox-a 
25. ^ "Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to host piano soloist", The New Britain Herald: 1, May 14, 2001, http://www.newbritainherald.com/articles/2001/05/14/front%20page/1809448.txt 
26. ^ J.V.W.B. (March 22, 2001), "Virtuosi End Season Brilliantly", The New Britain Herald: 5, http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=1844951&BRD=1641&PAG=461&dept_id=594835&rfi=8 
27. ^ Perron, Amelia (February 16, 2007), "Novgorodsky Inspires on the Piano", The Lawrentian: 7, http://media.www.lawrentian.com/media/storage/paper409/news/2007/02/16/ArtsEntertainment/Novgorodsky.Inspires.On.The.Piano-2716411.shtml 
28. ^ Chadoir, James (November 5, 2007), "Fox Valley Symphony in tune with Debussy's masterwork", The Post-Crescent: A–3, http://www.foxvalleysymphony.com/about_fvs/reviews/?season=2007-2008&title=Thunderous+Applause+and+a+Much-Deserved+Standing+Ovation+for+the+Fox+Valley+Symphony+and+Dmitri+Novgorodsky! 
29. ^ "Myth and Monumentality", Northeast Wisconsin Music Review: 3–4, November 3, 2007, http://www.foxvalleysymphony.com/about_fvs/reviews/?season=2007-2008&title=Myth+and+Monumentality 

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