Nicholas angelich beethoven biography

December 14, 1970 — April 18, 2022

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Born in the United States in 1970, Nicholas Angelich began studying the piano at five with his mother.

At the age of seven, he gave his first concert with Mozart’s Concerto K. 467.

Nicholas angelich beethoven biography

He entered at 13 the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where he studied with Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod, Michel Beroff and Marie Françoise Bucquet. He won the First Prize for piano and chamber music.

Nicholas Angelich followed master-classes with Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, and Maria Joao Pires.

In 1989 he won the Second Prize of the International Piano Competition R. Casadesus in Cleveland and in 1994 the First Prize of the International Piano Competition Gina Bachauer. In 1996 he was invited as a resident of the International Piano Foundation of Cadennabia (Italy).

In 2002 he received the “International Klavierfestival Ruhr - Young Talent Award” (Germany) from Leon Flei