Mikhail Voskresensky

Mikhail Voskresensky proved an imposing, magnetic presence…passion, impétuosité, spontaneity, and articulation marked this recital.” – Los Angeles Times.

From the Schumann International Piano Competition (top prize winner) to the International Piano Festival of Rio de Janeiro to the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest and the first Van Cliburn competition, Russian pianist MIKHAIL VOSKRESENSKY has captivated audiences with his electrifying interpretations of the grand piano literature of all styles for more than 60 years.

A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, Voskresensky’s teachers were the famous Lev Oborin (first prize winner of the First Chopin Competition in Warsaw), Ilia Klyachko, Jacob Milstein, Boris Zemliansky, and Leonid Roizman (organ). Voskresensky’s career began with his performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in Warsaw with the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra under the baton of Yevgeny Svetlanov. In 1957, he premiered Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at the Prague Spring Festival in the presence of the composer, who highly esteemed his performance.

Voskresensky’s extensive repertoire includes all the Beethoven sonatas, the complete works of Chopin, and 64 piano concerti, which he has performed under conductors such as John Pritchard, Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, and many others. He has also recorded more than 50 CDs.

Voskresensky was a distinguished professor at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and chair of the piano faculty. He has been a guest professor at Toho Gakuen School in Tokyo, Japan, since 1992.

His pupils have won over 120 international prizes, including 61 gold medals. They include Varvara Nepomniatschaya, Stanislav Igolinsky, Temirzhan Erzhanov, Yury Favorin, Alexander Guindin, Amir Tebenikhin, Sergei Koudriakov, Evelina Vorontsova, Alexey Nabiulin, Mikhail Yanovitsky, Oleg Marshev, Sergey Neller, Alexey Kurbatov, Yuri Martynov, and many others.

He has adjudicated many international competitions, including being chairman of the jury at the Tchaikovsky and Scriabin competitions in Moscow.

Voskresensky was named People’s Artist of the Russian Federation (1989), the country's highest artistic title. The Emperor of Japan also awarded him the “Medal of the Rising Sun and Gold Rays.”

In June of 2022, Voskresensky and his family left Russia to protest the war in Ukraine. They immigrated to the U.S., where he has since been in demand, being invited as a visiting professor at The Juilliard School. Performances at the Lilacs Recital Series in Manhattan, the Texas Piano Festival, the Northern Lights Music Festival, Rowan University, and the Eastman School of Music were brilliant. In July 2023, he gave masterclasses and a recital at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. Recent masterclasses have also been presented at Yale University, Curtis Institute, Manhattan School of Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and Indiana University.

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