2cellos mischa maisky biography

2cellos mischa maisky biography

Biography

Born in 1948 in Riga, Latvia, Mischa Maisky received his first music lessons there at the Children’s Music School and Conservatory. In 1962 he entered the Leningrad Conservatory. In 1965 his debut with the Leningrad Philharmonic earned him the nickname “Rostropovich of the Future”. One year later he was a prizewinner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and began his studies with Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory while pursuing a concert career throughout the former Soviet Union. After being imprisoned in a labour camp near Gorky for 18 months in 1970, he emigrated from the USSR.

1973

Settles in Israel; wins the 1973 Cassadó Competition in Florence; debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under William Steinberg; after the concert an anonymous admirer gives him an 18th-century Montagnana cello on which he still performs today

1974

Studies with the legendary Gregor Piatigorsky, thus becoming the only cellist to

Mischa Maisky - Agence Artistique Jacques Thelen

  • I was eight years old and announced that I wanted to play cello.

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      Mischa Maisky was born in in Riga [1] and is the younger brother of organist, harpsichordist and musicologist Valery Maisky (–).

    Mischa Maisky - Accademia Stauffer

      Born in in Riga, Latvia, Mischa Maisky received his first music lessons there at the Children’s Music School and Conservatory.

    Mischa Maisky (Cello) - Short Biography - Bach Cantatas Website

  • The Latvian-born cellist looks back on two influential teachers: Mstislav Rostropovich and Gregor Piatigorsky.
    • Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1948, Maisky describes himself as a soccer-loving, hyperactive “strange little child” who announced he wanted to.
    Mischa Maisky was born in 1948 in Riga [1] and is the younger brother of organist, harpsichordist and musicologist Valery Maisky (1942–1981).
    Mischa Maisky (born January 10, 1948 in Riga) is a celebrated cellist who won 6th Prize at the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966.

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  • Born in 1948 in Riga, Latvia, Mischa Maisky received his first music lessons there at the Children’s Music School and Conservatory.
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    Mischa Maisky - Biography - Deutsche Grammophon

  • Legendary artist Mischa Maisky, one of the last of the classic Russian school of string playing, has been one of the world's leading cellists for fifty years.

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      The Latvian-born Israeli cellist, Mischa [Misha] Maisky, was born as the younger brother of organist and harpsichordist Valery Maisky ().

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      Mischa Maisky was born in 1948 in Riga and is the younger brother of organist, harpsichordist and musicologist Valery Maisky (1942–1981).