People’s artist of the Russia, professor of Special Piano Department, Pavel Egorov was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (1975), under the tutelage of T. Nikolaeva and V. Gornostaeva. He was a prize-winner at the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau (Germany, 1974). At the same time he made his debut in the Grand Halls of the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatoires. Pavel Egorov performed in the best concert halls throughout the world, has toured in nearly every European country, and also in Canada, China and Japan. He had conducted master-classes in republic of Korea, Holland, Italy, Taiwan, and Sweden. Pavel Egorov had made more than 40 solo, chamber and symphony programs for many Russian and foreign record companies (“Melody”, Sony, Columbia, HWA EUM, Intermusica). Musical researcher and scientific editor, Honorary member of the International Schumann Society (Dusseldorf) and of the St. Petersburg’s Philharmonic Society, he was awarded the International Schumann Prize (1989), received the Order of Polish Government “For merits in culture” (2003), and had been elected a member of the St. Petersburg’s branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in the area of Education and Development of Science (2007).
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