Artist description JOHN BELL YOUNG performs works of FRANZ LISZT.

Music Style Classical

Musical Influences Beethoven, Berlioz

Artist History JOHN BELL YOUNG, whose ground breaking recordings of the music of Friedrich Nietzsche on the Newport Classics and Sony Classical label earned international critical acclaim, has performed throughout the US, Europe, Asia, South America and often in Russia, including appearances at the Scriabin Museum, the Glinka Capella and the Sochi and Riga Philharmonic Halls. 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 a 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. His monograph Scriabin Defended Against His Devotees: A Critical Evaluation of the Composer and his Music in the Context of Russian History, Religion and Culture was published in Russia in 1999 by Sovietskii Kompozitor in co-operation with 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. His most recent CD, Prisms , on the Americus label, has won widespread critical praise and is devoted to music of Scriabin, Mahler, Michel Block, Leo Tolstoi, and Hugh Downs

Albums PRISMS

Location New York, New York - USA

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