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Emile Naoumoff continues to be likened to both Vladimir Horowitz and Artur Rubinstein like a pianist, and was also named a significant composer before his 20th birthday. Given birth to in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1962, Naoumoff exposed himself a musical prodigy at age group five, taking on study from the piano and adding structure to his research a year later on. He became students of renowned music educator Nadia Boulanger in 1970 with age 10 performed the premiere of his personal piano concerto beneath the baton of Yehudi Menuhin. He used the analysis of performing with Pierre Dervaux in the past due ’70s and became a member of the faculty of l’Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. His following positions included professorships in the American Conservatory in Paris as well as the Conservatoire Country wide Superieur de Musique. In 1981, at age group 19, he was authorized like a composer — the youngest on the roster — using the music publisher Schott de Mayence. Naoumoff’s status like a piano virtuoso times from 1984 when he substituted with no warning for any stricken pianist inside a overall performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in Monte Carlo. That concert gained him the evaluations to Horowitz and Rubinstein, showing — as you critic remarked — the open fire of the previous as well as the poetry from the latter. Within the years since, he continued to appear being a soloist with renowned orchestras in European countries, America, and Japan, and such renowned conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Igor Markevitch, and Mstislav Rostropovich. He also gained an individual invitation from Rudolf Serkin to execute on the Marlboro Celebration, and has provided recitals throughout European countries within the years since. Being a composer, he has already established more good fortune than most in obtaining his music documented, principally with the Wergo label, which includes released two CDs of his function (and a documenting of Naoumoff’s interpretations of Debussy piano parts). His compositions range between single sonatas and preludes to full-blown concertos, the last mentioned including Images at an Exhibition. Naoumoff in addition has documented for Sony Classical, EMI, and Orfeo, and his most significant recordings consist of compositions by Glenn Gould, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger. Through the 1990s, furthermore to teaching in the Paris Conservatory, Naoumoff became a co-employee professor in the University or college of Indiana’s College of Music in Bloomington. He offers provided grasp classes on three continents and in addition has his personal music academy centered beyond Paris.
