Evgeny Zarafiants is a pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

. He studied at the Glinka Conservatory in Gorky

Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...

. Zarafiants later taught at the Conservatory in Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...

. His recordings include the preludes of Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...

 and the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti

Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...

. In 1993, he was awarded joint-second prize at the Ivo Pogorelich Piano Competition at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, California.

Discography

• Art & Music: Klimt - Music of His Time. Naxos
• Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 6. Naxos
• Scriabin: Preludes, Vol 1. Naxos
• Scriabin: Preludes, Vol. 2. Naxos
• Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 1, etc.. ALM Records
• Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 2, and preludes by Rachmaninov and Bach. ALM Records

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