Denys Proshayev
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1st prize International Music Competition of the ARD 2002

Denys Proshayev was born in 1978 in Brest in Belarus and studied at the Academy of Music in Kiev in the Ukraine with I. Lipatova, graduating in 1988. He continued his studies as a pianist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover with Vladimir Krainev as well as undertook conducting lessons in the class of Eiji Oue.

Denys Proshayev has won a number of international piano competitions such as the Clara Haskil in Vevey, the European Piano Competition in Bremen (2nd Prize), Concorso Pianistico Ettore Pozzoli. In 2002 he won the International ARD Music Competition, where he received both First and the Audience Prize. He was further awarded a grant from the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe in 2002.

Denys Proshayev has performed recitals and chamber music concerts mainly in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, the Ukraine and USA. He has appeared with orchestras such as the Czech and Munich Philharmonics, Leipzig Radio, Danish National Radio, Frankfurt Opera and Stuttgart Radio to mention just a few.

A major recital tour in 2005 included a number of important venues in Germany and Austria such as Herkulessaal Munich, Musikhalle Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Mozarteum Salzburg among others.

Proshayev also has a great affinity for chamber music. Amongst his chamber music partners are Quarteto Casals, Arabella Steinbacher, Veronika Eberle, Andrei Bjelov and Daniel Müller-Schott.

During the concert season 06/07 and 07/08 Denys Proshayev will have his debuts with orchestras such as Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona and Gurzenich Orchestra Cologne.

Denys Proshayev has recorded several productions with the German Broadcasting Union (ARD) and his first recording with SONY Classical in 2006 includes the entire cembalo suites of Jean Philippe Rameau on modern piano.


2006/2007

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