Leon FLEISHER
[Retour]- 1st prize, Piano 1952
- jury, Piano 1964
- jury, Piano 1972
- jury, Piano 1975
- jury, Piano 1987
- jury, Piano 1999
- jury, Piano 1978
Pianist and conductor Leon Fleisher is a native of San Francisco, and it is there that began his piano studies at age 4. He gave his first recital when he was 8 years old, and a year later he became a pupil of Arthur Schnabel.
In 1952, he took first-prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and began a career that took him to the world's great concert halls. In 1965, owing to problems with his right hand, Leon Fleisher was forced to interrupt his playing career.
He consequently devoted himself to teaching and conducting, and as well to the repertory for left-hand. His interpretations of this repertory, both in concert and recordings, won him public acclaim and critical praise.
Since 1995, thanks to recovered capacities of the right hand, Leon Fleisher now graces audiences with both repertoires, and both hands. |
