Nikolai Petrov

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Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov (born April 14, 1943) is a Russian pianist. Petrov was born in Moscow, the grandson of the operatic bass Vasily Rodionovich Petrov, and began learning the piano at the age of three. At the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory his teacher was Tatyana Kestner and in 1961 Petrov entered the class of Yakov Zak at the Conservatory itself. He subsequently won second prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas and won the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels. Petrov continues to give regular performances in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory as well as touring widely and appearing at the major world venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Royal Festival Hall (London) and the Teatro Colón. Petrov's large repertoire includes more than fifty concertos and he has worked with many prominent conductors, including Mariss Jansons, Kirill Kondrashin, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Yevgeny Svetlanov and Yuri Temirkanov. His awards include the Grande Médaille d'Or of the Académie Balzac, People's Artist of the USSR and the Russian State Prize. In 1998 he founded the Nikolai Petrov International Philanthropic Foundation. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Piano Fantasies

Nikolai Petrov. 20th Century Piano Sonatas.

Nikolai Petrov Plays Encores

Nikolai Petrov Plays Chopin

Nikolai Petrov Plays Piano Fantasies

Dance With Nikolai Petrov

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Works By Rameau, Dukas, Bizet, Saint-Saëns and Ravel

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Piano Transcription)

Russian Piano School: Nikolai Petrov

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Pictures at an Exhibition

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Nikolai Petrov Plays Piano Fantasies by C.P.E Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms

Nikolai Petrov: Piano Fantasies By C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann

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