Solomon Mikowsky, piano
The Music Conservatory Faculty
Solomon Mikowsky has been acclaimed as being “one of the world’s most sought-after artist teachers for reasons that are not hard to come by” (Clavier) and having “a magical ability to develop his piano students into winners” (Sur Exprès). Featured in Benjamin Saver’s The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA, he has been a member of the piano faculty at Manhattan School of Music for over 30 years, also teaching as an adjunct associate professor of music at Columbia University Teachers College and as Artist-Faculty at Chicago College of Performing Arts.
His pupils have won over 100 top prizes in some of the most important international competitions, including first prizes in the Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv), Santander, Iturbi (Valencia) and Maria Canals (Barcelona), and other top prizes in the Tchaikovsky, Dublin, Sviatoslav Richter (Moscow) and E-Competition (Minneapolis). They have performed as soloists with the Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Bamberg and St. Petersburg symphony orchestras; the Royal (London), Moscow and Israel philharmonic orchestras; the Zürich Tonhalle; and the Orchestre National de France, with such noted conductors as Comissiona, Dutoit, Ehrling, Eschenbach, Frübeck de Burgos, Macal, Masur, Semkow, Skrowaczewski and Zinman.
Solomon Mikowsky was born in Cuba of Russian-Polish parentage. His early training was with César Pérez Sentenat, who had studied in Paris with Moszkowski, a pupil of Liszt. He was later granted scholarships by the Cuban government and the Juilliard School to continue his studies in New York with Sascha Gorodnitzki, the foremost pupil of the legendary Russian virtuoso Josef Lhevinne, receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard and a doctorate from Columbia University.
Mikowsky has served on the juries of over 30 international piano competitions, and has given master classes at the leading conservatories in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Budapest, Salzburg, London, Paris, Münich, Tel-Aviv, throughout Australia and the Far East. A Steinway Artist, he has performed in Latin America, the Far East, and the United States and has participated in festivals in France, Italy, Spain, Korea and Taiwan. During the summers, he directs his International Piano Festivals in various countries in Europe, where his students have the opportunity to participate as performers in over 30 recitals and as soloists with orchestra.
Mikowsky has published a book on nineteenth-century music, has contributed to Américas, the Organization of American States journal and has been featured in interviews in leading professional magazines such as Clavier (USA), Chopin (Japan), Sur Exprès (Spain) and Musica di Pianoforte (Korea). His former academic positions have been as a member of the faculties at New York University, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the Schola Cantorum in Paris, and The Juilliard School. In recognition of his contribution to piano pedagogy, Solomon Mikowsky has been awarded the Cintas Prize by the United Nations Institute of International Education.
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