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"Nicholas
Angelich's is "healthy" piano playing, direct
and effective, the result of an intense study
into the internal architecture of the music. He
is an artist that uses his piano to the maximum
of its possibilities, blending plenitude and combining
a total mastery with an ultra sensitive touch."
 Perre-Petit
Le Figaro, France
Nicholas
Angelich was born in the United States in
1970, and began learning the piano with his mother
when he was five years old.
He gave
his first concert at the age of seven, performing
Mozart's concerto K467 in C Major with a chamber
orchestra in the United States.
At 13,
he entered the Conservatoire National Superieur
de Musique in Paris, where his tutors were Aldo
Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod and Michel Beroff. After
winning three First Prizes (First Prize for the
Piano in 1987, First Prize for Chamber Music in
1988 and First Prize for Piano Accompaniment in
1989), he spend three years following proficiency
courses in the piano, and then went on to work
with Marie-Francoise Bucquet.
Nicholas
Angelich has taken part in numerous master-classes
and been guided by such notables as Leon Fleischer,
Dmitri Bashkirov, Maria Joao Pires etc. Their
advice benefited Nicholas Angelich, who also devotes
himself to contemporary music and includes such
composers as Messiaen and Stockhausen in his repertoire.
Subsequently,
Nicholas Angelich was awarded the 2nd Prize at
the R. Casadesus International Competition (Cleveland,
1989), 5th Prize at the Tokyo International Competition,
First Prize at the Gina Bachauer International
Competition (1994) and 2nd Prize at the Umberto
Micheli Competition (1997).
To contact
Nicholas Angelich e-mail:
nicholas@miamipianofest.com
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