Dmitri Novgorodsky, Piano

Biography

Dmitri Novgorodsky was born to a musical family in Odessa, the former USSR. He began to play the piano at age five and was admitted into a special music school for gifted children a year later. By the age of 16, he had won the First Prize at the Kazakhstan National Piano Competition, and later the Gold Medal of the National Festival of the Arts. After graduating from the studio of Professor Victor Merzhanov at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with high honors, Mr. Novgorodsky immigrated to Israel in 1991.

In 1992, he was offered a full scholarship for graduate studies with Professor Boris Berman at Yale University School of Music in the United States. While at Yale, he earned the Master of Music, the Master of Musical Arts, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. Currently, Mr. Novgorodsky is the first and the only Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory graduate in piano performance to have earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance degree from Yale.

Dmitri Novgorodsky has appeared in Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Israel, France, Austria, Canada, Turkey, and Taiwan. In the United States, he has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall (New York City); the Kennedy Center and the Residence of Russian Ambassador to the Unites States (Washington, DC); the WLFN “Talent Showcase” (Philadelphia); the Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madison, WI (in “live broadcast” solo recitals). His appearances as recitalist and concerto soloist met with critical acclaim.

Mr. Novgorodsky’s collaborative activities include a three-year affiliation with the violinist Sarah Chang, recitals with the concert cellist Kenneth Kuo and with soprano Patrice Michaels. After the Carnegie Hall world premiere of “Prophecy from 47 Ursae Majoris” for clarinet and piano by Andrew Paul MacDonald, performed by Mr. Novgorodsky and Yamaha performing artist Professor Arthur Campbell (clarinet), the piece was recorded and released on the “Gasparo” label in 2000. A CD of pieces for oboe and piano, recorded in collaboration with the UW Madison’s oboe professor Mark Fink, is currently commercially available in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Norway, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Romania, Turkey, Greece, New Zealand, China, and Japan.

Mr. Novgorod sky’s pedagogical experience comprises 8,5 years of university teaching in the United States. His former students have been admitted into Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatories, University of Colorado Boulder, Westminster College, University of Wisconsin Madison. He has been a piano faculty at the Grand Valley State University (Michigan), University of Wisconsin, and Lawrence University Conservatory of Music. In fall 2009, he joined the piano faculty at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.