Topic: 10,000 maniacs (Read 3228 times)

iumonito · on: June 13, 2007, 07:00:48 AM

I am a fan, but the group is not what this is about.

I just watched the 9th Van Cliburn on video (so 80's!) and was amazed by the likes of Chris Taylor and Johan Schmidtt not becoming super popular pianisits. Which in turn got me thinking, there must easily be 10,000 concert pianists active right now.

Here is where you come in. Let's make a list. The rules are:

The pianist must be alive and actively playing in public or making recordings, give or take three years. Pogorelich, for example, would count as a concert pianist currently active. Argerich would too. Sviatoslav Richter would not.

Amaizing is not a requirement, so for example, I would count.

To get things started, here are some (over a hundred to begin with, although I could not think of anyone starting with Q (Last name, not sure whether Teresa Quesda is alive and playing):

Arta Arnicane
Elena Abend
Victor Alexeev
Greg Anderson
Argerich
Azkhenazy
Maurizio Baglini
Barenboim
Viktors Bertsis
Stephen Beus
Fabio Bidini
Jonathan Biss
Lucas Blondeel
Sodi Braide
Evgeny Brakhman
Yefim Bronfman
J. Michael Brounoff
Brown X 5
Sara Davis Buchner
Jonathan Chan
Jae-Won Cheung
Frederick Chiu
Philip Chiu
Zlata Chochieva
Rozalyn Chok
Arnaldo Cohen
Cabassi
Sa Chen
Seth Darth
Ariel Dechosa
Henri Robert Delbeau
Jeremy Denk
Annette DiMedio
Ellen Dodson
François Dumont
Magdalena Von Echer
Feghali
Robert Finley
Greg Fischer
Fliter
Francescheti
Mark Fuller
Hector Garcia-Santana (that's me, hehe

)
Julien Gernay
Jack Gibbons
Philip Glass
Goode
Grante
Clark Griffith
Helene Grimiaux
Marisa Haines
Hamelin
Ann Herlong
David Hibbard
Hough
Ioudenitch
Martin Jones
Kaplinsky
Hisako Kawamura
Yakov Kazman
Nikolaas Kende
Olga Kern
Stanislav Khegay
Vadym Kholodenko
Mariya Kim
Sangyoung Kim
Kissin
Kobrin
Alexei Koltakov
Lang Lang
Elena Lasala
Chung Lee
Miyeon Lee
Robert Levine
Slava Levine
Libetta
Kent Lietzau
Hyo-Sun Lim
Plamena Mangova
Don Manildi
Maria Gabriela Martinez
Thomas Maurice
Drew Mays
Maria Mazo
Gabriela Montero
Michael Moore
Jon Nakamatsu
Chris O'Reiley
Ovchinnikov
Ian Pace
Jose Mauro Peixoto
Suzzana Perez
Francesco Piemontesi
Roberto Plano
Pletnev
Pogorelich
Pollini
Jonathan Powell

Ilya Rashkovskiy
Philippe Raskin
Elizabeth Joy Roe
Abi Romero
Paul Romero
Anne-Marie Rouchon
Peter Serkin
Sergio Tiempo
Shaun Tirrell
Mariangela Vacatello
Natalie Valentin
Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort
Anna Vinnitskaya
Arcadi Volodos
Vicki Nin Wang
Andre Watts
Mu Ye Wu
Wang Xiaohan
Yun Di Li
Aiko Yajima
Joyce Yang
Hong-Chun Youn
Roger Yuen
Eberhard Zagrozek
Zymmerman

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