Program
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 17, Op. 31 No. 2
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 28, Op. 101
SCHUBERT Four Impromptus, Op. 90
SCRIABIN Sonata No. 5, Op. 53

MIKHAIL YANOVITSKY was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where he began to study piano under the guidance of his mother. He graduated from the Leningrad Special School of Music (class of Marina Wolf) and then from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, where he studied under Mikhail Voskresensky. Yanovitsky continued to develop his piano career in the 1980s,  making his debuts with the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra,  the Moscow Philharmonic and the Leningrad Philharmonic. 

In 2001, Steinway & Sons named Yanovitsky a “Steinway Artist”.  Dr Yanovitsky taught at the Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago before moving to his current position at Temple University. His students have been prize-winners at national and international piano competitions. Critics around the world have praised Mikhail Yanovitsky as one of today’s leading artists.

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