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Jerusalem Academy of Music
Oxana Yablonskaya's charismatic piano playing and profound interpretations have earned her recognition for over thirty years.
Known for her powerful virtuosity, her exquisite sensitivity and her deep emotional drive, Ms
Yablonskaya has enchanted audiences around the world.
Oxana Yablonskaya was born in Moscow.
As a teenager, she attended the Moscow Central School for the Gifted under the tutelage of the great Anaida Sumbatyan, with whom she worked until she was 16.
She later studied at the Moscow Conservatory with the legendary Aleksandre Goldenweiser.
At 22, she began a professional relationship with Tatiana Nikolayeva as part of the doctoral program and later served as her assistant at the Moscow Conservatory.
After graduating with honors, she was introduced to the Western world at the Jacques Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris in 1963, the Rio de Janeiro Competition in 1965, and the Vienna Beethoven Competition in 1969.
She won top prizes in all three competitions and received numerous invitations to return engagements, but was not allowed to accept them due to the Cold War.
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Yablonskaya performed Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Moscow Philharmonic under the direction of Yury Simonov at the composers' anniversary concert in the Kremlin.
She was the first performer to play Rodion Shchedrin's “Basso Ostinato,” which became her trademark.
Her status as an accomplished professional was enhanced by the fact that many prominent Soviet and foreign composers dedicated their music to her.
Although she made a name for herself in the Soviet Union and won three international competitions, she was never allowed to play outside the Eastern Bloc.
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Nevertheless, she recorded for the Melodya label and earned the prestigious title of soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic.
The title placed her in the company of elite artists such as Gilels, Richter, Rostropovich, Oistrakh and Kogan.
Outstanding solo performances with the Bolshoi Orchestra, the Moscow Stars series and the concert celebrating Shostakovich's 65th birthday were confirmation of her extraordinary talent.
In 1975, worried about the constant restrictions on her personal and artistic freedom, she applied to study in the US.
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Her actions led to the loss of her position as a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.
By nature, she was deprived of all concert engagements.
She waited more than two years for a visa and was finally allowed to leave the country with her father and young son, thanks to the hard work and petitions of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, Katherine Hepburn, Bar Ilan and over 45 famous writers, musicians, senators and actors.
Ms
Yablonskaya arrived in New York in 1977, unknown and unannounced, and had not touched a piano in more than two years.
Just four months later, she appeared in New York for the first time in concert at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, receiving widespread praise from the press.
Her debut concert at Carnegie Hall the following October was attended by a sell-out audience, and she has since taken her place among the world's greatest pianists.
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Yablonskaya has now performed in more than 40 countries.
After her triumph at her debut in a London concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1982, the Daily Telegraph wrote: "Yablonskaya is the sort of pianist who achieves with ease and naturalness what others spend a lifetime struggling to achieve." In 1986, after her Canadian performance with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, a music critic for the Toronto Star wrote: "She played Rachmaninoff's Third Orchestra as if it were written for her." Ms
Yablonskaya has emerged as one of the most compelling talents of her generation.
She has performed with many of the world's finest symphony orchestras and with many of the leading conductors of our time.
An exceptional recitalist, she is equally known for her solo performances.
In addition to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, she has performed at the Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, the Royal Concergebouw in Amsterdam, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Great Hall of St.
Petersburgh Philharmonic, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Sheldonian Theater and Holywell Music Room in Oxford, England, Magador Theater and Champs Elysees Hall in Paris, Opera House in Sidney, Municipal Theater in Rio De Janeiro, Seoul Arts Center, Shanghai Arts Center, Royal Thompson Hall in Toronto, 92 Street Y in New York, Osaka Arts Center and many more.
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Yablonskaya has collaborated in performances with such famous conductors as: Alexander Dmitriev, Alexander Anissimov, Yury Aronovitch, Rudolf Barshai, Herbert Bloomstaadt, Boris Brott, Abraham Chavez, Sergiu Comissiona, Franz Paul Decker, Lawrence Foster, Youosh Forst, Pierro Gamba, Fedor Gluschenko, Inbal, Arnold Katz, Anton Kersies, Dmitry Kitaenko, Eric Klaas, Kirill Kondrashin, Uri Maier, Fuat Mansurov, Nathan Rakhlin, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Stanislaw Skrowachevsky, Pavel Sorokin, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Yuly Turowsky, Victor Yampolsky and many others.
In 1990, after 13 years of absence, Ms
Yablonskaya returned to Russia for a sold-out concert, master classes and concerts at the Moscow Conservatory.
Since then she has returned regularly and is once again considered Russia's elite piano virtuoso.
In recent years, Ms
Yablonskaya has collaborated with her son, renowned cellist/conductor and 2007 Grammy Award nominee Dmitry Yablonsky.
Their concerts enjoyed great public and critical recognition.
The New York Times called her Carnegie Hall debut “a living dialogue.” Their joint recordings include duo performances for cello and piano, as well as piano concertos by Khachaturian and Glazunov recorded with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Brahms, Liszt's 1st Concerto, and Chopin's 1st and 2nd Concertos with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
In addition to her success as a concert pianist and recording artist, Ms
Yablonskaya was a professor of piano at the Julliard School in New York City.
She has given numerous master classes at many prestigious music schools, academies, conservatories and festivals around the world, including Newport and Bowdin in the USA, Flaine and Tours in France, Lago Maggiore in Switzerland and Oxford Philomusica in England.
Dr. Yablonskaya has been a co-founder of the Puigcerda Musica Clasica International Festival in Spain and the Gabala International Music Festival in Azerbaijan since 1998.
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Yablonskaya has edited numerous editions of piano music by Cimarosa, Tchaikovsky, Lyadov, Balakirev, Gluck, Glinka and others for the International Music Company and is currently continuing her collaboration with this renowned music publisher.
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Yablonskaya is also a member of the jury of numerous international piano competitions such as Leeds in England, Franz Liszt in the Netherlands, Prokofiev in St. Petersburg, Russia, Hamamatsu in Japan, competitions in Taiwan, Andorra, the Seiler International Piano Competition and the Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition, as well as the Piano E-Competition in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Jose Iturbi in Valencia, Parnassos in Monterrey, Mexico as well as Sendai Competition in Japan and Beethoven Competition in Bonn, Jose Iturbi in Los Angeles, Lev Vlassenko in Brisbane, Grieg in Oslo and Bergen, Shanghai Competition among others.
Among her many recordings, Ms. Yablonskaya's Liszt/Schubert CD won the International Liszt Society's Grand Prix du Disque in Budapest.
In its December 1995 review of her Tchaikovsky CD, the American Record Guide wrote: "Oxana Yablonskaya is an artist who deserves to be heard, in whatever repertoire she chooses." In March 2006, Ms
Yablonskaya gave her first "Sold Out" recital at Carnegie Zankel Hall in New York to mark the founding of the Chopin Society of New York, of which she was appointed vice president and music director.
This was immediately followed by the six-concert tour of France with a “sold-out” concert at the historic Magador Theater in Paris, where Oxana Yablonskaya performed Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano Concerto with the Orchester National D’Ille de France.
After a magnificent performance at the Magador Theater, the French critic Cyril Brun called Yablonskaya "Grand Tsarina of the Russian piano, who opened to us the whole of Imperial Russia in an instant." On December 15, 2006, another "sold-out" "Oxana Yablonskaya and Friends" event was held at Carnegie Zankel Hall, where Oxana and Dmitry Yablonsky performed Chopin's Cello Sonata and Grand Polonaise and received a standing ovation.
Composer Lowell Liberman wrote after attending this concert: “The profound performance of this sonata will remain in my memory for a long time.”
During this concert, a surprise ceremony took place - Oxana Yablonskaya was awarded the title of Honorary Academician of the United Nations International Academy of Arts, the International Academy of Arts in San Francisco and the International Independent Academy of Liberal Arts in Moscow, diplomas and the Einstein Gold Medal for exceptional achievements in the arts.
In October 2008, the Oxana Yablonskaya Piano Institute opened its doors in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana in Tuscany, Italy.
The year 2008 was marked by the anniversary celebration of Oxana's 70th birthday and throughout the year she performed, first in Italy with a New Year's concert in Catania, then in Israel, where she performed Tchaikovsky's First Concerto four times, a Grieg concerto in Turkey, a solo concert in Tuscany and master classes at the Hamamatsu Academy, Japan, as a juror of the Liszt Competition in Utrecht, the Jose Iturbi Competition in Los Angeles, the electric piano competition in Minneapolis, solo lessons in Spain, concert at MTNA in Los Angeles, master classes and chamber music concert in Nice, recording of Tchaikovsky's “Seasons” and “Album for Youth”.
Two concerts on November 29th and December 1st were broadcast on national television in Taiwan - Oxana performed Shostakovich's First Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra in Taipei and Taichung.
The big conclusion to the year-long celebrations took place on December 11th with the anniversary concert “Sold Out” at Carnegie Zankel Hall in New York, where Oxana Yablonskaya performed the 4th Beethoven, 2nd Chopin and 1st Shostakovich concertos and received a standing ovation.
In 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, Ms.
Yablonskaya directed the International Piano Competitions in Qabala, Azerbaijan and performed Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto No. 5 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2014, Professor Oxana Yablonskaya and her husband, piano maker and technician Alexander Volchonok, took a very significant step in their lives - including moving to Israel.
Since October 2016, Dr.
Yablonskaya was invited to teach at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
Her 80th anniversary concert took place on December 6, 2018 at the Henry Krown Auditorium at the Jerusalem Theater, where she performed three piano concertos under the direction of her son Mo.
Dmitri Jablonsky.
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Yablonskaya will represent the Sendai International Piano Competition as a juror in 2019.