Welcome to the Doctors Orchestral Society of New York
Celebrating our 70th Anniversary Season!
Upcoming Concerts:
When :
Thursday October 30, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Where :
Norman Thomas High School
111 East 33rd Street (between Park and Lexington)
Program :
Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor - Saint-Säens
Symphony No. 6 in D - Dvorak
Soloist : Ilya Kazantsev
ILYA KAZANTSEV, a fresh and exciting presence on the international music scene, has performed as recitalist and soloist with orchestras extensively in Russia and the United States, plus appearances in Ukraine, Belarus, Slovenia, France, Italy and Germany. Most recently Mr. Kazantsev made his sold out solo recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in November, 2007 and was a winner of the Nadia Reisenberg Piano Recital Award at Mannes College. Among his many other awards and honors, he received first prizes at the 1998 Nikolai Rubinstein International Competition (Paris), the 2001 International Festival-Competition (Grodno, Belarus) and the 2005 Five Towns Competition (Long Island, NY) and the 2007 Artist International Competition (NY). He was also awarded prizes at the 2000 International Chopin Competition (Moscow, Russia), the 2005 Trinity Church Concert Series Award (NY) and the 2007 and 2008 World Piano Competition (Cincinnati).
Mr. Kazantsev has appeared as soloist with the Russian Youth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonid Nikolaev in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, with the Kharkov Youth Symphony and the Kharkov Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Yuriy Yanko in Kharkov, Ukraine. In New York, he has performed with the Doctors Orchestra and the Mannes Community Orchestra, both conducted by Peter Bellino. As a solo recitalist he has presented concerts in Russia at the Moscow Conservatory's Small and Great, Rachmaninov Halls, the St. Petersburg
the St. Petersburg Philharmonia Recital Hall, and in New York at CAMI and Steinway Halls.
As an active summer festival performer, Mr. Kazantsev presented both the opening and closing concerts at the 2006 International Academy of Music Festival in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (Italy), and has also participated in the "Virtuosi 2000" Festival in St. Petersburg, and the 1999 International Music Festival in Petrozavodsk-(Russia)
Mr. Kazantsev has performed in all of Mannes College of Music's annual yearlong festivals since "La Belle Epoque 2002" - and most recently in "Pianist as Composer, 2008". He has also participated in master classes presented by leading artists such as Igor Lazko, Peter Eiher, Earl Wild, Richard Goode, Marcel Baudet, Edward Aldwell, Efim Bronfman, Phillipe Entremont and Menahem Pressler.
An enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, Mr. Kazantsev has presented numerous premieres of works by contemporary American, Russian and Eastern European composers, some of which have been dedicated to him. His advanced studies have included coaching by such prominent figures as pianist and contemporary music specialist Jay Gotlieb, Mark Ponthus and legendary composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, who praised Mr. Kazantsev
for his "thoughtful performance" of Douze Notations.
Mr. Kazantsev began his music studies at age seven. At age ten he was accepted at the Central Music School at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in his native Moscow as a student of Professor Valeriy Pyasetsky. Subsequently, he came New York to study at Mannes, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree in 2005, his Master of Music degree in 2007, and is presently a professional Studies Diploma candidate, studying with Dr. Arkady Aronov.
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