Dmitri Novgorodsky is a classical pianist. He is the first Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory graduate in piano performance and the first Russian-Soviet musician who has earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance degree from Yale University.
Biography
editNovgorodsky was born into a family of musicians in 1965 in Odessa, the former USSR. He began to play the piano at age five and was admitted into a special music school for gifted children a year later. By the age of 16, Mr. Novgorodsky had won the First Prize at the Kazakhstan National Piano Competition, and later the Gold Medal of the Kazakhstan National Festival of the Arts.[1][2][3][4][5] In 1990, he graduated from the studio of professor Victor Merzhanov at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with high honors and qualifications of concert pianist, chamber musician and teacher.[6] In 1992, he was offered a full scholarship to study at Yale University with Boris Berman.[7] While at Yale, Novgorodsky received four Distinguished Honorary Awards for the best piano recitals and a Special Faculty Prize to an outstanding pianist in the graduating class.[8]
In 1998, he was granted the "Extraordinary Abilities in the Arts" permanent US residence.[9]
He graduated from Yale in 2003.[10][11] Novgorodsky became an American citizen in 2004.
Career
editNovgorodsky has appeared in Russia, Kazakhstan, France, Belarus, Ukraine, Israel, Canada, Austria, Turkey, Taiwan, and at such venues in the United States as Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Kennedy Center and "Sunday Afternoon Live" recital broadcasts on Wisconsin Public Radio. In April 2002, he became the only Moscow Conservatory alumnus to be honored by an invitation from Raisa Scriabine and the Scriabin Society of America to perform at a Special Scriabin Gala Concert for the Russian Ambassador to the United States.[12][13]
Together with the clarinetist Arthur Campbell, Novgorodsky gave a world premiere to the "Prophesy from 47 Ursae Majoris" by Andrew Paul MacDonald in 2001.[14][15][16] In 2001, the recording of this work won the Third Web Concert Hall Competition,[17] which "...was created to open exciting new frontiers in the performance of serious music, from the point of view both of the performers and of those interested in hearing them, and to do so in a context which radically enlarges the educational impact of musical performance as we move into the Twenty First Century".[18] The composition was released by "Gasparo Records" on CD "Premieres" in the same year.[19][20][21][22][23] After teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and Grand Valley State University, Michigan, Novgorodsky was appointed as Assistant Professor of Piano at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin in 2003. He resigned his faculty position in 2008.[24]
Reviews
editThe New Britain Herald, a newspaper in Connecticut, reviewed Novgorodsky's performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra in New Britain, Connecticut in May, 2001.[25][26] His solo recital in February 2007 was reviewed by the Lawrence University student newspaper, The Lawrentian.[27] His recent performance as a concerto soloist was reviewed by The Post-Crescent[28] and by the Northeast Wisconsin Music Review.[29]
References
edit- ^ Dotzuk, Eugenia (10 February 1982), "Musician's Snowflakes", Leninskaya Smena (in Russian), p. 5
- ^ ""Jiger" has named talents", Almaty Evening News (in Russian), pp. 10–11, 17 April 1985
- ^ "Dmitri Novgorodsky", The Far Northeast Citizen-Sentinel, vol. 28, no. 40, p. 8, 9 October 1996
- ^ LaRoi, Heather (10 November 2000), "Keyed Up", The Post Crescent, pp. B–1–B–2
- ^ "Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to host piano soloist, The New Britain Herald, May 2001". Newbritainherald.com. Retrieved 18 December 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ List of Moscow Conservatory Alumni[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Boris Berman's homepage". Pantheon.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 1 August 2003. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "International Double Reed Society 2001 Conference, Biographies, p. 72" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "University of Iowa Press Release: "Oboist Gullickson, UI alumna and visiting faculty member, will present recital"". News-releases.uiowa.edu. 6 October 2000. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "Doctoral of Musical Arts Recital, Yale Bulletin&Calendar, November 1, 2002". Yale.edu. 25 October 2002. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ Doctoral Degrees conferred in Yale School of Music. 26 May 2003 Commencement
- ^ "The Scriabine Foundation". The Scriabine Foundation. Archived from the original on 17 December 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "Scriabin Society of America's Events". Scriabinsociety.com. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "Arthur Campbell's page". Arthurcampbell.net. 9 March 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ List of Andrew Paul McDonald's compositions performed in major venues Archived 28 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Prophesy from 47 Ursae Majoris". Answers.com. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "Winners of the Web Concert hall Competition". Webconcerthall.com. Archived from the original on 27 February 2002. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "About the International Web Concert Hall Competition". Webconcerthall.com. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "Gasparo Records". Buymusichere.net. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "The CD "Premieres"". Cduniverse.com. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "H&B Recordings Direct, Album Detail". Hbdirect.com. 1 March 2001. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ Evan Ware. "Andrew Paul MacDonald". Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago". Hum.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ Nixon, Deborah (23 May 2008), "Piano Department faces the loss of three faculty members", The Lawrentian, p. 3, archived from the original on 31 May 2008
- ^ "Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to host piano soloist", The New Britain Herald, p. 1, 14 May 2001[permanent dead link]
- ^ J.V.W.B. (22 March 2001), "Virtuosi End Season Brilliantly", The New Britain Herald, p. 5, archived from the original on 7 June 2011
- ^ Perron, Amelia (16 February 2007), "Novgorodsky Inspires on the Piano", The Lawrentian, p. 7, archived from the original on 14 February 2012, retrieved 3 March 2012
- ^ Chadoir, James (5 November 2007), "Fox Valley Symphony in tune with Debussy's masterwork", The Post-Crescent, pp. A–3
- ^ "Myth and Monumentality", Northeast Wisconsin Music Review, pp. 3–4, 3 November 2007