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    Vladimir Ashkenazy is a renowned Russian-born pianist and conductor who inherited his musical talents from both his father, a professional pianist, and his maternal grandfather, a violinist and chorus master. Ashkenazy came to prominence in the 1950s by winning competitions in Warsaw and Brussels. While he maintains his career as a pianist through recordings, conducting has formed a large part of his activities for the past 20 years. He currently holds positions as Music Director of the European Union Youth Orchestra and Conductor Laureate of several major orchestras, including the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Ashkenazy continues to collaborate extensively on recordings and international tours with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, of which he is Principal Conductor, as well as his long

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    Vladimir Ashkenazy is a renowned Russian-born pianist and conductor who inherited his musical talents from both his father, a professional pianist, and his maternal grandfather, a violinist and chorus master. Ashkenazy came to prominence in the 1950s by winning competitions in Warsaw and Brussels. While he maintains his career as a pianist through recordings, conducting has formed a large part of his activities for the past 20 years. He currently holds positions as Music Director of the European Union Youth Orchestra and Conductor Laureate of several major orchestras, including the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Ashkenazy continues to collaborate extensively on recordings and international tours with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, of which he is Principal Conductor, as well as his long

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    VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY conductor

    One of the few artist who has combined a successful career as a pianist and
    conductor, Russian-born Vladimir Ashkenazy inherited his musical gift from both
    sides of his family: his father was professional pianist and his maternal
    grandfather a violinist and chorus master in the Russian Orthodox Church.
    Ashkenazy came to prominence on the world stage in the 1955 Chopin
    Competition on Warsaw and as first prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth
    Competition in Brussels in 1956; since then he has built and extraordinary career
    as one of the most renowned pianist of our time and as an artist whose creatice
    life encompasses a vast range activities and offers inspiration to music-lovers
    worldwide
    Conducting has formed the largest pasrt of his activities for the past 20 years; he
    became Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sidney Symphony
    Orchestra in January 2009 and collaborates with them on extensive recording
    projects and international tours each year.
    Ashkenazy continues his longstanding relationship with the Philharmonia
    Orchestra, of which he was appointed Conductor Laureate in 2000, with
    performances in London and around the UK each season. They regularly embark
    on worldwide tours most recently to China and Korea and have undertaken
    projects such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich Under Stalin in 2003 and
    Rachmaninoff Revisited in 2002. The latter was reprised in Paris in October
    2010.
    Ashkenazy holds the positions of Music Director of the European Union Youth
    Orchestra and Conductor Laureate of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and NHK
    Symphony Orchestra. He maintains strong links with major orchestras including
    the Cleveland Orchestra and Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, and makes
    guest apperances with leading ensembles all over the world.
    Ashkenazy also maintains his devotion to the piano, these days mostly in the
    recording studio, where he continues to build his recording cataloge with
    releases such as the 1999 Grammy awawrd-winning Shostakovich Preludes and
    Fugues, Bachs Wohltemperierte Klavier, Rachmaninov Transcriptions and
    Beethovens Diabelli Variations. A recording of French works for piano duo with
    Vovka Ashkenazy was released in August 2009 to great critical acclaim, and the
    duo gives concerts in Japan and South Korea in autumn 2011.

    (as written on Ashkenazy with the SSO concert booklet)

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