1. Nicholas Michael Angelich was an American pianist.
14 Facts About Nicholas Angelich
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Nicholas Angelich was noted for performing internationally with ensembles from Europe and North America.
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Nicholas Angelich's father, Borivoje Andjelitch, was a violinist; his mother, Clara Kadarjan, was a piano teacher who was originally from Russia.
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Nicholas Angelich started learning the piano with his mother at the age of five.
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Nicholas Angelich relocated to Paris when he was thirteen in order to study at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique, where his teachers included Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod, Michel Beroff, and Marie-Francoise Bucquet.
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Nicholas Angelich subsequently made his New York recital debut at the Alice Tully Hall in 1995, playing compositions by Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Maurice Ravel.
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Nicholas Angelich's performance received a positive review from Anthony Tommasini, who observed how Angelich "boasts a prodigious technique, but wields it with a poise uncommon in someone so young".
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Nicholas Angelich received the Young Talent Award at the 2002 Klavier-Festival Ruhr.
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Nicholas Angelich performed with major French orchestras under the conductors Myung-whun Chung and David Robertson.
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Nicholas Angelich made his debut with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur in May 2003, playing the Emperor Concerto.
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Nicholas Angelich then toured Japan with Masur and the Orchestre National de France the following year.
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Nicholas Angelich's recording of Brahms trios with Renaud Capucon and Gautier Capucon for Erato Records received a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
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Nicholas Angelich again played under Deneve with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2018.
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Nicholas Angelich was 51, and suffered from chronic lung disease prior to his death.