Maxim Shostakovich
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Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Template:Langx; born 10 May 1938) is a Russian and American conductor and pianist. He is the second child of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar. His older sister is Galina Shostakovich. He is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works.
He was educated at the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories, where he studied with Igor Markevitch and Otto-Werner Mueller<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> before becoming principal conductor of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. During his tenure as principal conductor, he conducted the premiere of his father's Fifteenth Symphony on 8 January 1972.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In 1981, Shostakovich defected to West Germany and later settled in the United States.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The same year, he obtained U.S. citizenship.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
After spells conducting the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Shostakovich returned to St. Petersburg. In 1992, he made an acclaimed recording of the Myaskovsky Cello Concerto with Julian Lloyd Webber and the London Symphony Orchestra for Philips Classics.
Shostakovich is the dedicatee and first performer of his father's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major (Op. 102).
Maxim Shostakovich has recorded a cycle of his father's 15 symphonies with the Prague Symphony Orchestra for the Czech label Supraphon.
Personal life
Shostakovich has a son, Dmitri Maximovich Shostakovich (or Dmitri Shostakovich Jr.), who is a pianist.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
See also
References
External links
- Interview with Maxim Shostakovich, 10 July 1992
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- Dmitri Shostakovich
- 1938 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 20th-century Russian conductors (music)
- 20th-century Russian male musicians
- 21st-century American male musicians
- 21st-century Russian conductors (music)
- 21st-century Russian male musicians
- American classical pianists
- American male classical pianists
- American male conductors (music)
- Honored Artists of the RSFSR
- Moscow Conservatory alumni
- Musicians from Saint Petersburg
- Russian classical pianists
- Russian male conductors (music)
- Soviet classical pianists
- Soviet conductors (music)
- Soviet defectors
- Soviet emigrants to the United States