Marian Lapsansky

Marian Lapsansky is normally one particular seemingly ubiquitous pianists who not merely performs regularly as soloist, recitalist, and chamber music collaborator, but appears in many recordings in an array of repertory, often in collections with multiple performers and functions. He provides played with a number of the leading Czech and Slovak conductors of your day, including Jirí Belohlávek, Bystrik Rezucha, Zdenek Kosler, and Libor Pesek and provides won several tournaments and recording awards. He in addition has been active being a instructor. Lapsansky’s repertory is certainly broad, consuming the disparate prefers of Schumann, Grieg, Prokofiev, Poulenc, Debussy, Ravel, and Franck, aswell as Czech and Slovak composers such as for example Dvorák, Janácek, Barta, and specifically Zdenek Fibich. Lapsansky provides recorded for most brands, including Supraphon and Naxos. Lapsansky was created in Tisovec, Slovakia, on August 21, 1947. His pupil réamounté is longer and amazing: he started music research in 1956 with Jaroslav Brzák (piano) and Leopold Krull (violin); afterwards he examined violin (1960-1962) with Vojtech Minornár; from 1962-1968 he examined piano on the Bratislava Conservatory with Roman Rychla, with the Prague Academy of Music and Dilemma (1968-1973) with piano symbols Frantisek Maxián and Jan Panenka. He spent another year on the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow learning with piano virtuoso and key pad pedagogue Viktor Merzhanov. In 1970 Lapsansky gained the International Smetana Competition in Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia. From 1976-1979 he concertized frequently using the Kosice Condition Philharmonic Orchestra, and quickly thereafter started making appearances using the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1983 he performed duo-piano repertory with Czech pianist Peter Toperczer. Through the next 2 decades Lapsansky produced performances in the main cities in European countries, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and with front-rank orchestras in Tokyo, Berlin, Dresden, Sofia, Prague, and somewhere else. In 1994 he started recording specifically for Supraphon Information. Among his main accomplishments in the documenting studio room was the conclusion in 1997 of an enormous collection of single piano functions by Fibich — Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences — released on the 12-CD set. Like a instructor Lapsansky in addition has been quite energetic: a faculty member in the Bratislava Academy of Music from 1987, he started teaching in the Prague Academy of Music in 1997, after that became a member of the faculties from the Music Academy in Banská Bystrica in 2001 as well as the Janácek Academy of Music in 2002. Lapsansky’s 2007 routine included concerts in Bratislava, Istanbul, and Malaga.