Dmitri Aleksandrovich Bashkirov was a Russian pianist and academic teacher.
18 Facts About Dmitri Bashkirov
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Dmitri Bashkirov taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1957 to 1991, and at the Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid from 1991 to 2021.
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Dmitri Bashkirov taught as a guest at other international conservatories and he is regarded as a representative of the Russian piano school.
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Dmitri Bashkirov studied at the Tbilisi Conservatory for ten years with Anastasia Virsaladze, then at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexander Goldenweiser.
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Dmitri Bashkirov played chamber music with Igor Bezrodny and Mikhail Khomitzer.
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Dmitri Bashkirov was awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1990.
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Dmitri Bashkirov was a recording artist with the Swiss classical record label Claves, recording concerts of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Beethoven.
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Dmitri Bashkirov recorded an album with piano music from a Haydn sonata to Rodion Shchedrin's Piano Sonata No 1.
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Dmitri Bashkirov's playing of Rachmaninoff's music was described by a reviewer of the FAZ as of a "bold, sometimes steely elegance".
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Dmitri Bashkirov taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1957 to 1991.
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Dmitri Bashkirov taught many internationally renowned artists such as Dmitri Alexeev, Arcadi Volodos, Nikolai Demidenko, his daughter Elena Bashkirova, Boris Bloch, Jonathan Gilad, Kirill Gerstein, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Denis Kozhukhin, Eldar Nebolsin, Luis Fernando Perez, Dang Thai Son, Vestards Simkus, David Kadouch, Jong Hwa Park, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Bruno Vlahek and Plamena Mangova.
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Dmitri Bashkirov taught at the International Piano Academy on Lake Como, the Shanghai Conservatory, the Chapelle musicale Reine Elisabeth in Brussels, the Paris Conservatoire, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and the Encuentro de Musica y Academia in Santander.
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Dmitri Bashkirov was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise in 2006.
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Dmitri Bashkirov served regularly in the juries of prestigious piano competitions, including the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition in Santander in 1995,1998 and 2002.
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Dmitri Bashkirov was juror for the Artur Rubinstein Competition in 1992,1998 and 2011.
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Dmitri Bashkirov had a daughter, Elena, who is married to Daniel Barenboim.
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Dmitri Bashkirov's son, Kirill Bashkirov, is a photographer specialised in portraiture, landscape and sports.
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Dmitri Bashkirov died in Madrid on March 7,2021, at age 89.