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Cyprien
Katsaris, the renowned pianist
and composer, was born in Marseilles.
A graduate of the Paris Conservatoire,
he won the First Prize in the International
Cziffra Competition (Versailles), and
was a major prize winner in the
Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International
Competition.
His major international
career includes performances
with the world’s greatest orchestras:
The Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle
Dresden, The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra,
Cleveland Orchestra, The Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra Amsterdam, The Philharmonia
(London), The NHK Symphony Orchestra
(Tokyo), Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
among others. He has collaborated with
conductors such as Leonard Bernstein,
Kurt Masur, Myung Whun Chung, Sir Simon
Rattle, Mstslav Rostropovich, Charles
Dutoit, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christoph
von Dohnanyi… and Karl Münchinger, who
on the festive occasion of his farewell
concert in 1986, with the Stuttgart
Chamber Orchestra, personally invited
Mr. Katsaris to perform the Haydn D
Major Concerto.
Mr. Katsaris has
recorded extensively for Teldec
(Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin,
Warsaw, Grand Prix du Disque Franz
Liszt, Budapest and the
British Music Retailers
Association’s Award, Record
of the Year, Germany,
for the 9th Symphony
of Beethoven/Liszt), Sony Classical,
EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, BMG-RCA, Decca,
Pavane, and now on the Piano 21
label .
In addition to the standard
repertoire, such as the Complete Concertos
by Mozart, recorded live and performed
in Salzburg and Vienna with Yoon K.
Lee and the Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie, Katsaris
has rediscovered long lost works such
as the Liszt/Tchaikovsky Concerto
in the Hungarian Style which he
has recorded with Eugene Ormandy and
the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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