Vassily
Award winning pianist and teacher
In recent years, I have been hailed as a pianist of world-class importance. In 1999, as a teen-aged prizewinner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, I was given praise, through the following words: "How many pianists can make a line sing as the Moscow native did on this occasion? Every poignant phrase took ethereal wing. Elsewhere the music soared with all of the turbulence and poetic vibrancy it possesses. We will be hearing much from this remarkable musician." My first piano...