Andrey Diyev
| Andrei Diev | |
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| Born |
July 7, 1958 Minsk, USSR |
| Occupation | Classical pianist |
| Awards | Meritorious Artist |
| Website | www.andreidiev.com |
Andrei Borisovich Diev (Russian: Андрей Борисович Диев), born July 7, 1958, Minsk, (Belorussia) - Russian pianist, Meritorious Artist (1995).
Andrei Diev was born into a family with a strong musical tradition. His mother was a pianist, his father was a conductor (both graduated from the Moscow Conservatory), and Diev began his piano studies with his grandmother. He studied music began in Gnessin School in 1965, transferred to the Moscow Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory in 1973 to study with professor Lev Naumov and continued his studies with Naumov when he entered to the Moscow Conservatory in 1975 (graduated in 1981).
Diev made his Moscow debut at the age of 17, performing the Grieg Concerto with the USSR State Symphony Orchestra, and two years later, in 1977, he won the All Soviet Pianist Competition. Diev won prizes at the Santander International Competition in 1978, and the Montreal International Competition in 1980. After completing a post-graduate course at the Conservatory still under the tutelage of Professor Naumov from 1982–1985, he went on in 1986 to win the First Prize, Gold Medal, Special Prize at Tokyo International Competition. This success led to many engagements throughout the Far East and most of Europe. The prizes led to engagements in Japan, Italy, Spain, Canada, United Kingdom, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Bulgaria. Andrei Diev has appeared with the USSR State Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow, Leningrad, Zagreb, Sophia, and Cracow Philharmonics, The BBC, NHK, Tokyo Metropolitan, RAI, Scottish, and Montreal Symphonies, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and many others. He has worked with such outstanding conductors as Sir Gibson, Gergiev, Ziva, Otvosh, Sinaisky, Sondezkis etc.
Diev has performed as soloist and recitalist in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Royal Festival and Wigmore Halls in London, the Bunko Kaikan and Suntory Halls in Tokyo, Berlin's Schauspielhaus, the RAI Auditorium in Torino, the Sala Verdi in Milan, and the Megaro Hall in Athens, among others. In addition to his solo appearances with many of the world's leading orchestras, Diev has performed chamber music with such distinguished artists as Kaja Danczowska, Alexander Kniazev, Phllippe Bernold, Roger Chase, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Andrei Korsakov. He has participated in such major festivals as the Russian Winter, Piano Forum (Torino), Soviet Piano Masters (London), Berlin Biennale, Concerti di Primavera (Genova), and the Santander.
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