Martha Argerich invited which 12 year old French pianist to perform at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan marking the beginning of his career?
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François-Xavier Poizat François-Xavier Poizat is a French pianist. Born 18 August 1989 in Grenoble with Swiss, French and Chinese origins, Poizat grew up with the learning from the Russian masters Alexeï Golovine and Evgeni Koroliov, as well as the Argentinian pianists Nelson Goerner and Martha Argerich. It is Martha Argerich who propelled him on the international stage by inviting him when he was 12 years old to the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, recognizing his ‘’deep lyricism and remarkable virtuosity’’. This marked the beginning of a career that has brought him to perform in already 22 countries in Europe and Asia. He currently lives in New York City and studies at The Juilliard School with Matti Raekallio.
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Martha Argerich Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentine classical pianist, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the second half of the 20th century.
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Nagino Maruyama Nagino Maruyama (born September 26, 1999) is a Japanese classical pianist from Aichi Prefecture, Japan. She rose to international fame by becoming the youngest finalist ever when she participated in XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015.
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Gilles Apap Gilles Apap (born 21 May 1963) is a French classical violinist. Born in Béjaïa, Algeria, he was raised in Nice, France. In 1985 he won first prize in the contemporary music category at the Yehudi Menuhin Competition. He served as concertmaster with the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra for 10 years, but has since focused on his career as a soloist with orchestras around the world.
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Minoru Nojima Minoru Nojima (野島稔 , "Nojima Minoru" , born May 23, 1945 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa) is a Japanese classical pianist.
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Véronique Bonnecaze Véronique Bonnecaze is a French pianist. She studied at the Bordeaux Conservatoire, then at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM) with . She also worked with Germaine Mounier, Vladimir Nielsen and with Oxana Yablonskaya at the Juilliard School in New York . She has won prizes and made the finals of many international piano competitions such as Geneva, Mavi Marcoz, Chopin Palma de Majorque, Pescara and Jaen.
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Midori Matsuya Midori Matsuya, 松谷翠 (18 March 1943 – 9 January 1994) was a Japanese pianist, graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, studied under Kichigoro Sato, Noboru Toyomasu, Naoya Fukai and Lay Lev.
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Yves Henry Yves Henry (born 2 April 1959) is a French pianist who specializes in romantic music.
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Adolphe Gutmann Adolphe Gutmann (originally Wilhelm Adolf Gutmann) (12 January 1819 – 22 October 1882) was a German pianist and composer who was a pupil and friend of Frédéric Chopin.
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Geoffrey Tozer Geoffrey Peter Bede Hawkshaw Tozer (5 November 195421 August 2009) was an Australian classical pianist and composer. A child prodigy, he composed an opera at the age of eight, and became the youngest recipient of a Churchill Fellowship award at 13. His career included tours of Europe, America, Australia and China, where he performed the "Yellow River Concerto" to an estimated audience of 80 million people. Tozer had more than 100 concertos in his repertoire, including those of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Medtner, Rachmaninoff, Bartók, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Gerhard.
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Ida Gotkovsky Ida Rose Esther Gotkovsky (born 26 August 1933) is a French composer and pianist. She is currently a professor of music theory at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in France.
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Alain Planès Alain Planès (Lyon, 20 January 1948) is a French classical pianist. He studied at Lyon, then in Paris with Jacques Février and was soloist of the Ensemble intercontemporain of Pierre Boulez till 1981. His recording of Préludes (Debussy) was voted classical record of the year at the Victoires de la musique classique in 1986.
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Claire-Marie Le Guay Claire-Marie Le Guay (born 13 June 1974) is a French classical pianist.
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Yorgos Manessis Yorgos Manessis (26 May 1931 – 27 January 2015), was a Greek pianist and pedagogue, with a short but significant career as soloist.
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Jean-Marc Savelli Jean-Marc Savelli (born 18 October 1955) is a French pianist.
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Maria Curcio Maria Curcio (27 August 1918 or 191930 March 2009) was an Italian classical pianist who became a sought-after teacher. Her students included Barry Douglas, Martha Argerich, Radu Lupu, Dame Mitsuko Uchida, Myung-Whun Chung, Leon Fleisher, Rafael Orozco, Christopher Elton and Geoffrey Tozer. She was the last student of Artur Schnabel and she passed on his teachings to her own students.
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Menahem Pressler Menahem Pressler (born 16 December 1923, Magdeburg) is a German-born Israeli-American pianist.
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Caroline Haffner She was born as Princess Caroline Murat in Paris and studied piano with Alfred Cortot and Samson François, Pierre Sancan, and later with Lev Oborin in Moscow. She was awarded her Licence de Concert when she was 14 years old from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. Caroline started a lifelong career as teacher and performer aged 18 in Paris. She was the youngest laureat at the Marguerite Long international competition, won the Grand Prix at the Genève International Competition and the Terni Casagrande among other prestigious prizes. She cofounded with Martin Engstroem the Verbier Academy.
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Rita Bouboulidi Rita Bouboulidi (Greek: Ρίτα Μπουμπουλίδη ) is a Greek pianist. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where she was taught by Lazare Levy. Her international career has earned great praise from critics.
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Morton Estrin Morton Estrin (born in Burlington, Vermont on December 29, 1923) is an American classical pianist. His career began in 1949 with a well-received recital at Town Hall. He studied with the teacher Vera Maurina-Press and others.
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Edward Auer Edward Auer (born December 7, 1941, New York City) is an American classical pianist. In 1965, he became the first American to prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition. Due to his frequent and subsequent touring in Poland, Mr. Auer is recognized worldwide as one of the leading interpreters of Frédéric Chopin. Auer has also displayed his consummate skill and broad repertoire—from Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann to Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and others—while touring the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He is currently a Professor of Piano at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Vitaly Margulis Vitaly Iosifovich Margulis (Russian: Виталий Иосифович Маргулис ; April 16, 1928 – May 29, 2011) was a Russian classical pianist.