Petrov, Nikolay Arnoldovich

Nikolai Petrov was born on April 14, 1943 in Moscow , in a family of musicians.

In 1949-1961 he studied at the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky with T.E. Kestner, in 1961-1966 - at the Moscow Conservatory , in 1966-1968 - in graduate school in piano at Y. I. Zack . Already in 1962 he won second place at the International Piano Competition. V. Cliburn in Fort Worth ( USA ), and two years later he achieved the same result at the Competition. Queen Elizabeth In Brussels .

Since 1965 - soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic . Since 1968, he began a concert career. During the Cold War, he was one of the few musicians to tour freely abroad.

He performed with famous domestic conductors such as E.F. Svetlanov , K.P. Kondrashin , Yu.H. Temirkanov , G.N. Rozhdestvensky , Arvid and Maris Yansonsy, P.L. Kogan and many others, with leading symphonic groups the world ( New York Symphony orchestra , the National Symphony orchestra (USA) , Los Angeles Philharmonic , the Tokyo NHK orchestra and many others), as well as the best European teams: the Berlin Philharmonic , the London Symphony orchestra , Royal Philharmonic orkes River Symphony Orchestra "NHK-Kay" .

He performed a lot as a solo musician. The pianist's repertoire includes about 50 solo programs and 93 concerts with an orchestra. He played from 70 to 100 concerts a year. He gave sold-out concerts at Lincoln and Kennedy centers ( New York and Washington ), at the Barbican Center, Albert and Royal Festival Halls ( London ), in the Playel Hall ( Paris ) and the Colon Theater ( Buenos Aires ), in Concertgebau ( Amsterdam ). His repertoire included most of the works of classical and romantic heritage, he also became the first performer of new works by A.I. Khachaturian , T.N. Khrennikov , R.K. Shchedrin , A. Ya. Eshpay . Over the past seasons, he has performed all the clavier concerts of I.S.Bach , all the concerts of L. van Beethoven (including Fantasia for the choir and the Triple Concerto), all the concerts of S.V. Rachmaninov (including the first performance of the First Edition of the 4th concert).

From 1978 to 1982, he was " restricted to travel abroad " because, according to him, "he did not go to the vile anti-Semitic provocation of the State Concert and paid, although he did not imagine that he would be completely deleted from touring life. Only the attachment to my house on Nikolina Gora , my small homeland, saved me from emigration. It was unbearable for me to think that any party official would settle there and stomp his feet on the ground, which I literally put my soul into. ”The intervention of the then Minister of Culture of the USSR P. N. Demichev helped him to become a visiting person again ^[1] .

From 1993 to 2011 he taught a special piano class at the Moscow Conservatory (professor). Among the students are laureates of international competitions E. Adamova, P. Bespalko, M. Huseynov (Azerbaijan), R. Kudoyarov, P. Trokhopoulos ( Greece ).

He was engaged in public activities, leading the International Charity Fund of his own name, founded in 1998 , serving on the jury of international competitions, the Council on Culture and Art under the President of the Russian Federation (2001-2004), etc. (founder and president of the Academy of Russian Art Association (1995) ), President of the Russian Society for Related Rights, Vice-President of the Creative Association “World of Culture”, member of the Presidential Commission on State Prizes in the field of literature and art (1993-2004)). He was the art director of the New Names Foundation (2003).

Since 2000, he participated in concerts of the Moscow Philharmonic Society in a duet with A. Sh. Gindin , and since 2007 his performances have been singled out in a special cycle of concerts united by one subscription (in 2007-2011 the subscription was called “Nikolai Petrov plays”, after the pianist’s death was renamed in Dedicated to Nikolai Petrov, but only one season lasted in the format of the memorial).

Since 1962, more than 40 phonograph records of his recordings were published at Melody . In total, more than 30 CDs with recordings of pianist performances, including Olympia, AED, Caprice, etc., have been released.

Fluent in French, German, English, Italian and Polish.

On May 15, 2011, on a tour in Minsk, the musician suffered a stroke . After resuscitation, the musician was transferred to Moscow, where he continued treatment, but received blood poisoning ^[2] , from which he died on August 3, 2011 at the 69th year of his life ^[3] . The farewell took place on August 5, 2011 at 11:00 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory , at 13:00 there was a funeral service in the Great Ascension Church . He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery ^[4] .

Family

• Grandfather - Vasily Rodionovich Petrov (1875-1937), bass singer, sang in the Bolshoi Theater ^[5] . People's Artist of the RSFSR (1933)
• Grandmother - Evgenia Nikolaevna Petrova, graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in piano class K.A. Kippa , was the first music teacher of the future pianist
• Uncle - Moses Yakovlevich Ferkelman (1908-1974), composer
• Father - Arnold Yakovlevich Ferkelman (1914-1992), cellist ^{[6] [7] [8]} , performed with piano accompaniment by D. D. Shostakovich and was friends with the composer ^{[9] [10]}
• Mother - Irina Petrova (1913—?), Ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater
• Wife - Larisa Grigoryevna Petrova (born 1939)
• Daughter - Eugene (born 1976).

• W. Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth ( USA , 1962, 2nd Prize).
• Queen Elizabeth International Competition in Brussels ( Belgium , 1964, 2nd Prize).
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10/11/1974) - for merits in the field of Soviet musical art ^[11] .
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (01/15/1986) - for merits in the field of Soviet musical art ^[12] .
• People's Artist of the USSR (01/25/1991) - for great services to the development of Soviet musical art ^[13] .
• State Prize of the Russian Federation (1993) - for the concert programs of recent years ^[14] .
• The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III degree (02.02.2004) - for his great contribution to the development of Russian art ^[15] .
• The Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, IV degree (07/29/1997) - for merits to the state, a great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples, many years of fruitful activity in the field of culture and art ^[16] .
• Order of Honor (04.16.2008) - for a great contribution to the development of the domestic musical culture and many years of creative activity ^[17] .
• Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (04/12/2002) - for his great contribution to the development of musical art ^[18] .
• Grand Gold Medal named after O. de Balzac of the French Academy (1986) - for outstanding performance of the works of L. van Beethoven , G. Berlioz and F. Liszt .
• Title "Musician of the Year" (1996).
• The badge of honor “Public Recognition” (1998, established by the foundation of the same name).
• Honorary Member of the Philharmonic Society of St. Petersburg (since 1997) ^[19] .

• 1998 - Retro threesome - a man in a Mercedes

One of the minor planets is named after the pianist.

• The International Charity Fund of Nikolai Petrov (there are sections Press, Photo Gallery, Full catalog of Nikolai Petrov's discography)
• Biography
• Nikolai Petrov: Among young people there are many talented musicians // rus.err.ee , 03/22/2010 (text and video recording of the interview)
• Biographical information RIA News
• 12:22 04.08.11 The line of life. Nikolay Petrov
• Nikolai Petrov in the program School of Slander