Valery Afanassiev

This extraordinary pianist studied the piano in the Moscow Conservatory with Emil Gilels and Yakov Zak. After earning the 1970 Reine Elisabeth (Queen Elizabeth) piano competition in Brussels, Afanassiev’s worldwide profession became popular. While touring Belgium, he produced the challenging decision to get political asylum, ultimately learning to be a Belgian resident. Afanassiev’s main repertoire is dependent across the Romantics. His recordings consist of music by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Mussorgsky, Chopin, while others. He also performs in chamber music organizations and has used Gidon Kremer and Mischa Maisky. Afanassiev in addition has tried his hands at performing and offers modeled his shows around the fantastic conductors Wilhelm Furtwängler, Willem Mengelberg, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, and Hans Knappertsbusch. Afanassiev includes a second profession as a article writer, with several novels released and plays predicated on Modest Mussorgsky’s piano routine Photos at an Exhibition and Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana to his name. Afanassiev resides in Versailles and concertizes world-wide. Afanassiev writes his personal liner notes, to provide listeners a larger knowledge of his interpretations. His recordings are located mainly on Denon and ECM, you need to include a complete routine of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (1996) and Schubert’s Occasions Musicaux (2012).