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-lsb- http://www.feltsman.com www.feltsman.com -rsb- moscow , russia vladimir feltsman non_vocal_instrumentalist 08 january 1952 classical vladimir feltsman
 vladimir oskarovich feltsman pianist
vladimir feltsman

vladimir feltsman -lrb- , `` vladimir oskarovič feltsman '' ; born in moscow on 8 january 1952 -rrb- is a russian american classical pianist .
feltsman debuted with the moscow philharmonic at age 11 .
he studied at the moscow tchaikovsky , moscow , and leningrad -lrb- now st. petersburg -rrb- conservatories and went on to win the grand prix at the marguerite long international piano competition in paris .
in 1979 , because of his growing discontent with the official soviet ideology and rigid governmental control of the arts , feltsman applied for an exit visa from the soviet union .
in response , he was immediately banned from performing in public .
after eight years of struggle and virtual artistic exile , he was finally granted permission to leave the soviet union .
upon his arrival in the united states in 1987 , vladimir feltsman was warmly greeted at the white house , where he performed his very first concert in north america .
that same year his debut at carnegie hall established him as a major pianist on the american scene .
feltsman teaches at the mannes college the new school for music and the state university of new york new paltz , where he is the founder and artistic director of the international festival-institute piano summer .
feltsman , who became a u.s. citizen in 1995 , lives in upstate new york .
vladimir feltsman often performs on the fortepiano ; he has notably performed all of the mozart 's piano sonatas on a replica of a walter fortepiano , as well as beethoven 's emperor concerto and mozart 's concerto k595 , no. 27 .
his discography includes six albums of clavier works of j.s. bach , recordings of beethoven 's last five piano sonatas , solo piano works of schubert , chopin , liszt , brahms , messiaen , and silvestrof , as well as concerti by bach , chopin , tchaikovsky , rachmaninov , and prokofiev .
his father , the composer oscar feltsman , was known in the soviet union for popular songs and musical comedies .
