Alexander Toradze

Alexander Toradze is most beneficial known for his interpretations of piano repertory by Russian composers, particularly Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, & most notably Prokofiev. He provides drawn high compliment for his group of the five Prokofiev piano concertos on Philips. His functionality of the favorite Third Concerto from that routine was selected from among 70 others as the best possible recording of the task ever with the esteemed International Piano Quarterly. Toradze’s repertory also contains functions by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Bartók, and Shostakovich. Toradze provides concertized throughout European countries, the Americas, Japan, and even more remote elements of the world, and provides frequently participated in seven- or eight-hour marathon concerts along with his college students, showing all or a lot of the piano outputs of Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, while others. Toradze is well known for praying before every concert and offers often spoken from the need for spirituality in artwork. He offers made several recordings over time, many of them on EMI and Philips. Alexander Toradze was created in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1952. His dad, David, was a mentioned composer and his mom an ophthalmologist and celebrity. Toradze researched music in the Moscow Conservatory with Jakov Zak and Lev Naumov. While students there he captured second reward in the 1977 Vehicle Cliburn Competition. Toradze graduated through the conservatory in 1978 and soon afterward was presented with a professorship there. He also made an appearance frequently in concerts through the entire Soviet Union, though he experienced stifled by bureaucratic settings. In 1983 Toradze defected while on a concert tour in Spain and quickly shifted to the U.S. His profession blossomed quickly and in 1986 his 1st major documenting was released on EMI, a disk from the Prokofiev Seventh Sonata and functions by Stravinsky and Ravel. Other effective recordings and concerts adopted, and in 1991 he was appointed teacher of piano at Indiana College or university, South Flex. Among his 1st endeavors in South Flex was the establishment from the Toradze Piano Studio room, a car to coach talented multinational college students who frequently present these marathon concerts with him on tour. In 1998 Toradze’s acclaimed group of the Prokofiev concertos, with Valery Gergiev as well as the Kirov Orchestra, was released. In the 2002-2003 time of year Toradze and his college students gave extremely praised marathon concerts in Italy, Germany, as well as the U.K. The Toradze Piano Studio’s 2010-2011 plan included concerts in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Basel, and Strasbourg.