One of the greatest cellists of the world Mischa Maisky will perform in Yerevan on April 29 within the frameworks of the 8-th international music festival here called 'The 21-st Century Prospects.' The world-renowned cellist will play together with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Russian/Israeli cellist Mischa Maisky studied with Mstislav Rostropovich, won the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966 and has made numerous recordings.
Stepan Rostomian, chairman of the festival, said today bringing the world's number one cellist to Armenia is an unprecedented musical events. Edward Topchian, chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra. said it is a great event with a political dimension since performance of such a great musician in a country raises its international image.
Misha Maisky will be received here by the First Lady, Mrs. Bella Kocharian, the spouse of prime minister Serzh Sarkisian and culture and youth minister Hasmik Poghosian.
Misha Maisky was born in Riga in 1948. In 1966 he won a prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition and commenced studies with Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory; at the same time, he began pursuing an active concert career throughout the Soviet Union.
Following a period of harassment by Soviet authorities, Maisky emigrated in 1972 to Israel, where his sister had settled several years before, and now lives in Belgium. In 1973, he won the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition in Florence, and later that year made his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under William Steinberg.
After this concert, an anonymous admirer gave Maisky a Montagnana cello from the 18th century - the instrument he still uses today. In 1974, Misha Maisky studied for several months with Gregor Piatigorsky, thus becoming the great master's last student and the only other person ever to have studied with both Piatigorsky and Rostropovich.
Since then Mischa Maisky has been enthusiastically welcomed in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, New York, Tokyo along with the rest of the major musical centers of the world. In 1995 he returned to Moscow after a 23 year absence to give a concert and to record with the Russian National Orchestra and Mikhail Pletnev. -Armenpress
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