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Vadim Chaimovich

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Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G minor

Vadim Chaimovich was born in 1978 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

At the age of five he began his musical education at the Balys Dvarionas Music School of his home city with Betti Schwarz und Tatyana Radovich as his teachers. His extraordinary gift of music manifested itself very early: It was at the age of seven that he performed with the Balys Dvarionas Chamber Orchestra in several cities and towns across Lithuania, as well as in other republics of the former Soviet Union. After finishing music school with honours in 1995, he went to the Vilnius Academy of Music for a year.

During this period of time he won a number of awards. In 1989 and 1992 he became a laureate of the Balys Dvarionas International Competition for Young Talents in Vilnius. At the age of 13 he scored a big success winning the first prize at the international competition Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte in Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic). One year later he became prize winner of the First International Tchaikovsky Youth Competition in Moscow. He won two more awards at the International Stasys Vainiunas Piano Competition in Vilnius in 1993 and at the International F. Chopin Piano Competition in Szafarnia (Poland). In 1995 he received a study grant from the Open Lithuanian Foundation. The same year he came to the attention of Professor Lev Natochenny (USA), who heard him play at an international piano festival and invited to join his master class at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. His graduation from the Hochschule was followed by a year of studies at the Scuola Cantorum in Paris in the class of Professor Eugen Indjic. From 2003 to 2007 Vadim Chaimovich continued his musical education as a postgraduate and master class student in the class of Professor Peter Rösel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden and was awarded a diploma with honors. International workshops with such world-famous musicians as France Clidat, Rudolf Kehrer, Wladimir Krainev, Peter Eicher, Christopher Elton, Peter Tekacs, Faina Lushtak, Sergio Perticarolli, Claude Franck and Alexander Fischer marked further stages in his education.

In recent years Vadim Chaimovich gave numerous concerts in Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, Japan, Italy and the USA, among others with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Dresden, Carl-Maria-von-Weber Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica di Bacau (Romania) etc. He performed at the Kulturpalast and Semperoper (Dresden), Paderewski Hall (Lausanne), Theatre du Vevey, Curt Sachs Hall (Berlin), Cortot Hall (Paris), Grand Opera House (Cairo), Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park/USA), Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire as well as at such prominent international festivals as Meranofest and Schlern International Music Festival (Italy), Verbier Festival and Academy (Switzerland), Dresden Music Festival and Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany) etc.

In 2003, Vadim Chaimovich’s outstanding artistic achievements were distinguished with the first prize of the Dresden Art and Culture Foundation, public awards ceremony taking place at the Dresden State Opera (Semperoper). In 2004 he was awarded the first prize by the Da-Ponte Foundation (Darmstadt), in 2005 – a scholarship by Alfred & Ilse Stammer-Mayer Foundation (Switzerland) and a prize at the 3rd International Schlern Music Competition (Italy). More awardsfollowed, such as e. g. a recognition award at the 10th International Schubert Competition in Dortmund (2005), Recital Award from the Gotthard Schierse Foundation Berlin (2006), another scholarship from the Ottilie-Selbach-Redslob Foundation Berlin (2007), as well as the Martha M. Boucher Memorial Prize at the William Kapell International Piano Competition in the USA

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