Oleg Marshev plays four French Piano Concertos

Oleg Marshev

Born in Baku, ex-USSR, Oleg Marshev trained with Valentina Aristova at the Gnesin School for Highly Gifted Children and with Mikhail Voskresensky at the Moscow Conseratory where he completed his Performace Doctorate in 1988 gaining the Diploma with Honour. Marshev is thus a direct representative of the fifth generation of Russian pianists sincc Liszt, through Alexander Siloti, Konstantin Igumnov and Voskresensky’s teacher, Lev Oborin.

Marshev’s First Prize in the 1988 “Pilar Bayona” International Piano Competition (Spain) proved the first in a series of illustrious competition victories which have confirmed the artist’s reputation as one of the most talented Russian pianists of his generation: in 1990 he took First Prize and the Gold Medal at the AMSA World Piano Competition of Cincinnati; in 1991 First Prize at the Concorso Pianistico.lnternazionale “Citta di Marsala” and the following year he was awarded the coveted Primo Premio Assoluto in the ltalian capital’s premier competition, the Concorso Pianistico Intemazionale “Roma 1992”.

In addition to numerous engagements in his native country, Marshev has performed in Hungary, Poland, Spain, Germany, Holland, France, Scandinavia, Japan, New Zealand and in the United States and Canada. 1991 saw his New York debut with a highly acclaimed recital at the Lincoln Center “Alice Tully Hall” which led to an invitation to perform at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Residcnt in ltaly, the artist gives concerts regularly in that country’s leading music centres, from Messina, Catania and Palermo in the south, via Rome and Tuscany to the major cities ofthe north such as Turin and Milan. He is also in increasing demand as a teacher holding masterclasses in Spain, Italy and the USA, and as a competition jury member (including that of the World Piano Competition in Cincimati).

Marshev’s activities also extend to the recording studio: in addition to the present recordings numerous compact discs are available on Danacord. All these releases have been received to critical acclaim by leading intemational publications such as Gramophone, High Fidelity, Fanfare, In Tune, Fono Forum, Diapason, Pianist Magazine, Cd Classica and Repertoire des Disques.