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Nina Lelchuk is one of the most highly praised and respected artists in the world of international music today. Her sensational debut in Carnegie Hall was greeted with brilliant reviews from New York critics. The New York Times wrote that she "belongs to the top rank of pianists." Since then, Ms. Lelchuk has performed in prestigious concert series in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Boston. She has appeared as soloist with major orchestras throughout the United States and Canada, including the Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras. All of her performances receive similar acclaim, thrilling her audiences with the fiery temperament, emotional depth, and rare warmth of her playing.
At the age of 13, Ms. Lelchuk was the youngest student ever to be accepted by the famed Moscow Conservatory, where she earned her doctorate and served as a professor for 13 years. She kept a very busy concert schedule playing with major orchestras in London, Paris, Leipzig, Dresden, Prague, Moscow, and Leningrad.
Ms Lelchuk was awarded international prizes at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Marguerite
Long Piano Competition in Paris, and the Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth. At the Paris
Competition, Ms. Lelchuk won the Charles Munch special prize, equal to the competition's first prize for the best talent. The Pathe Marconi Company released her recording in France.
Ms Lelchuk's first American recording on the Telarc label was highly acclaimed by music critics all over the world. The New York Daily News called her performances on the recording "miracles of poetic virtuosity." She performed her tenth Carnegie Hall recital in April 1988 as well as summer performances during the same season in Switzerland and Italy. Ms Lelchuk has also appeared in London, Vienna, Israel, and Germany, and, during the 1988-89 season, she made a return visit to Italy to perform in the Festival Internazionale Autunno Musicale in Como.
From 1989 to 1991, Ms Lelchuk performed and gave numerous master classes at the universities and conservatories in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Korea. These concerts and master classes achieved much success and acclaim. From 1992 through 1996, Ms. Lelchuk performed extensively in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, England, Luxembourg, Israel, and Russia. She also recorded the highly acclaimed Compact Discs of Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words" and Schumann's Piano Concerto with the Berlin Radio Orchestra for the EMS label in Brussels.
In 1998, Ms. Lelchuk participated in the International Rachmaninov Festival in Maryland, where she gave a historic world premiere performance of the first two versions of the Rachmaninov First Piano Concerto. The International Piano Archives at Maryland videotaped this performance for release to the public.
Since the year 2000, Ms. Lelchuk toured extensively throughout Europe and Japan performing solo recitals and conducting series of master classes. She was regularly invited to teach at the famous TOHO School of music in Tokyo as well as at the International music festival in Sosterberg, Holland. Besides concertizing, Ms. Lelchuk is in great demand as a pedagogue and has prepared many students for international piano competitions, including twenty-one prizewinners. From 1988 to 1992, Nina Lelchuk held the position as distinguished professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. During the 1996-1998 school years, she was invited as visiting professor to give master classes at the University of Maryland. She also wrote a book and several articles on the art of piano playing.
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