Artist description Pianist.

Music Style Classical

Musical Influences Scriabin; Mahler; Mozart; Monteverdi; Bach; Lully; Couperin; Liszt; Sofronitsky; Cortot; Fyodorova; Karajan; Schnabel; Mravinsky; Schoenberg; Wagner; Berg; Musorgsky; Klien; Brendel; Kleiber; Neveu; Harnoncourt; Furtwangler; Levy; Arrau; Richter; Schenker; Dyernova; Yavorsky; van Beinum; Callas; Schwarzkopf; Ludwig; Anders; Dieskau; and many, many others

Artist History JOHN BELL YOUNG, whose recordings of the music of Scriabin, Friedrich Nietzsche and others on the Newport Classics, Americus and Sony Classical labels earned international critical acclaim, has performed throughout the US, Europe, Asia and South America. He also performs frequently in Russia, where he has appeared on the concert series of the Scriabin Museum, the Glinka Cappella, the Sochi Philharmonic and the Riga Philharmonic (Latvia). He is the subject of the 1977 Dutch television documentary, "John Bell Young, Sweet Summer Concert", filmed in concert in the historic Koepelzaal and aboard an open tour-boat in the canals of Amsterdam. Winner of the 1985 Chopin Foundation Council Competition, his master classes and lectures have taken him to Brown University, the Juilliard School, and the Leningrad and Boston Conservatories. Endorsed by Scriabin's daughters Marina and Yelena, he was awarded a generous grant from the [Rockefeller] Trust for Mutual Understanding to lead the American delegation to the International Scriabin Conference and Festival in Moscow in 1992. Mr. Young is the author of the monograph Scriabin Defended Against His Devotees: A Critical Evaluation of the Composer and his Music in the Context of Russian History, Religion and Culture, to be published in its Russian translation this year by the Scriabin Museum. He is a prominent music critic whose columns for the American Record Guide, Opera News, Clavier, Classical DisCDigest, Piano Life, The St. Petersburg Times and the popular on-line publications Classical Net, Tower of Babel and Music and Vision are widely read. His principal teachers were Constance Keene, Margarita Fyodorova, Olga Barabini and Bruce Hungerford. He has coached with Claudio Arrau, John Browning, Shura Cherkassky, Vladimir Feltsman and Ernst Levy. He is a frequent adjudicator for international competitions, including the Prince (Gelendzhik, Russia); the Russian American Music Association (Boston) and the Greta Erikson Nordic Competition; the European International Competition (Sweden); the International Russian Music Competition (San Jose); and the Premio Jaen (Spain). . His most recent CD, Prisms, on the Americus label features music of Scriabin, Mahler, Michel Block, Leo Tolstoi, and Hugh Downs. In the fall of 2002, Americus Records will release Mr. Young's new recording of Richard Strauss's rarely performed melodrama for narrator and piano ,"Enoch Arden", where he is joined by the internationally celebrated film actor, MICHAEL YORK. (www.michaelyork.net)

Albums PRISMS (Americus Records www.americuscd.com); JOHN BELL YOUNG plays CHOPIN IN CONCERT (Engima Records: www.johnbellyoung.com); JOHN BELL YOUNG plays SCRIABIN IN CONCERT (Enigma Records. www.johnbellyoung.com); JOHN BELL YOUNG plays LISZT IN CONCERT (Enigma Records. www.johnbellyoung.com); THE PIANO MUSIC OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (Newport Classics Records, Cat. #85513. www.berkshirerecoutlet.com); THE MUSIC OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (Newport Classics Records.catolog #85535 www.berkshirerecoutlet.com)

Press Reviews "I was most impressed by John Bell Young's performance of Scriabin's 5th Sonata. He demonstrated great power, imagination and a rhythm full of life, all the elements indispensable for an interpreter of my father's music."Marina Scriabine, Paris 1983"I have at last had a chance to listen to your two CDs of Nietzsche and Scriabin ? Let me say at once that I find your playing extremely accomplished and sensitive. The Scriabin CD I also found really delightful and again, I was quite amazed that Leo Tolstoi was a composer even of such a comparatively small scale piece as the Waltz on your recording. Altogether, I think it is a wonderful achievement that you have recorded these works. Sir Charles Mackerras, London, December 1999 FOR A COMPLETE SET OF REVIEWS GO TO: http://www.johnbellyoung.com/page-reviews.

Additional Info Live concert performances also available on CD & video

Location New York, New York - USA

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