Vladimir Feltsman

Pianist and conductor Vladimir Feltsman is one of the most versatile and constantly interesting musicians of our time. His vast repertoire encompasses music from the Baroque to twenty-first century composers. Highlights of Mr. Feltsman’s recent seasons include concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Mexico City, and Naples, Florida, as well as at the Aspen, Ravinia, and Verbier festivals. He has also given performances in Washington, D.C. (as part of the “Russian Experiment” project), New York City, and at the University of California, Davis. A dedicated educator of young musicians, Mr. Feltsman holds the Distinguished Chair of Professor of Piano at the State University of New York, New Paltz, and is a member of the piano faculty at the Mannes College of Music. He is also the founder and artistic director of the International Festival-Institute PianoSummer at New Paltz. Mr. Feltsman’s extensive discography has been released on the Melodiya, Sony Classical, Musical Heritage, and Nimbus labels. He has recorded all the Schubert sonatas and works by Schumann for Nimbus. Other recordings include solo piano works by Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Mussorgsky, Messiaen, and Valentin Silvestrov; as well as concertos by Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev.