He played each note exactly, with such a feeling, such expression, he
was an entire orchestra it was as if he played 200 years ahead of our
time -New York Times The ordinary and the easily consumable are simply
not an option for this visionary of the 88 keys. -Zalzburger
Nachrichten Born in Belgrade in 1958, the son of a musician, Ivo
Pogorelich started his musical education when he was seven, making,
his solo concert debut at the very young age of 10. As an outstanding
talent he continues his education in Moscow, where he spent the
following ten years first attending the Central Special Music School,
and then, studying at the P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory. However, a
radical shift in his artistic development occurred after meeting the
prominent Georgian pianist and pedagogue, Alisa Kezeradze, with whom
he began an intense and fruitful professional cooperation in 1976.
Thanks to her, Pogorelich redefined his technique by adopting the
knowledge gained from the Western tradition of the Russian piano
school to which she belonged. The exclusivity of acquired knowledge,
based on the generational line, the seventh after Beethoven and fifth
after Liszt, would make Pogorelich stand out and guarantee him a
special place in the historic constellation of world pianism. Ivo
Pogorelich experienced the first in a series of major successes as
early as the mid-seventies, when he won a state competition in Zagreb
in 1975, followed by a two-months long tour around the USA with the
Dubrovnik Festival Orchestra. Only a few months later saw his first
important international achievement when he won the Alessandro
Casagrande Piano Competition in Terni (Italy). Pogorelich attracted
even greater attention from the world music public in 1980 as the
laureate of the prestigious 14th International Piano Competition in
Montreal, where he gave a spectacular performance of Sergey Prokofievs
Third Piano Concerto in the finals. That same year, Pogorelich also
participated in the 10th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano
Competition in Warsaw, where, for reasons which have never been fully
explained, he was eliminated before the final round. This
controversial and unfounded decision resulted in dissatisfaction among
certain members of the jury, who left the competition in protest,
while pianist Martha Argerich explained her decision to leave by
declaring Pogorelich a genius. On the wave of the enormous interest
he attracted at the Chopin competition thanks to his unorthodox
interpretations, astounding technique and innovative approach to
interpreting the literature, Pogorelich gained recognition as a
pianist of exceptional capacities and, above all, contemporary spirit.
Responding to invitations from numerous prestigious concert houses, he
begin an intensive series of concerts in Europe, North America,
Australia and Japan. His debut in New York Carnegie Hall in 1981 was
followed by sensational solo performances on the worlds most important
stages, as well as those with renowned orchestras such as the Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra and Berliner Philharmoniker, the London, Boston
and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the New York and Los Angeles
Philharmonics, and the Tonhalle and Cocertgebouw orchestras to name
but a few. In addition to his forty-year-long rich and diverse
professional career on the worlds stages, Ivo Pogorelich is also
socially engaged, primarily in humanitarian work and helping young
artists. In order to support young musicians, Pogorelich set up the
Fund for Young Musicians in Zagreb in 1986, but also the
manifestations intended to promote concert artists at the beginning of
their careers, such as Ivo Pogorelich international music festival in
Bad Wörishofen in Germany in 1989, and Ivo Pogorelich International
Solo Piano Competition in Pasadena, USA, in 1993. For his versatile
engagement in representing and promoting the highest values of
culture, art and education in the widest international context,
Pogorelich was also the first classical musician, to receive the
honour of being named UNESCOs Goodwill Ambassador in 1988. While
respecting his mentioned contributions, Manhattan International Music
Competition established in New Yorks Carnegie Hall in 2016, appointed
Ivo Pogorelich its honorary president and named the main prize after
him. As an exclusive artist of Deutsche grammophon record label
between 1981 and 1998, Ivo Pogorelich released the extensive
discography including 14 albums and 3 videos with interpretations of
pieces from a wide stylistic range, from the music of baroque
composers to those of 20th-century artists. These extraordinary
editions of anthological value and cult status in classical music were
awarded the prestigious French Diapason dOr award shortly after
release of the box set with Pogorelichs complete recordings for that
label, in 2015. In August 2019 Ivo Pogorelich released his first
studio recordings in 20 years for Sony Classical record label. The
album includes sonatas by L. v. Beethoven and S. Rachmaninoff which
Pogorelich has chosen to explore the profound influence of Beethovens
revolutionary compositional techniques on a later generation of
composers.? This album received a very positive reviews reaching high
positions in the classical music charts in Europe.
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