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Nikolai Saratovsky
ベルギーに本拠地を置く International Certificate for Piano Artists の会員に選ばれ、フィリップ・アントルモン、ミシェル・ ベロフら著名ピアニストとともに世界各国で活動を共にし、ニューヨーク・タイムズなど世界各国の主要誌で賞賛されている世界的に活躍するピアニスト。 6歳でピアノを始めてすぐに才能を認められ、名門モスクワ音楽院付属中央音楽学校に入学。スタニスラフ・ブーニンやラドゥ・ルブーらを育てた名教授エレーナ・リヒテルのもとで学ぶ。2001年ロシア教育省より奨学金を授与、2002年にはロシア大統領より表彰される。ジュリアード音楽院に特待生として招待。2010年、モスクワ音楽院を首席卒業。同音楽院において歴代の最優秀卒業生の一人としてプレトニョフやポゴレリチ、スルタノフらと共に名前を刻まれる。
教育分野では、2020年台湾の国立台北教育大学ピアノ科教授に就任。国際コンクールの優勝者及び上位入賞者を多く輩出し、世界の音楽教育機関よりマスタークラスや国際音楽祭に招聘されている。
Nikolai Saratovsky is an internationally acclaimed Russian concert pianist. He began his piano studies at the age of six and gave his first solo recital when he was only nine and performed with a symphony orchestra shortly after. Nikolai entered the prestigious Central Music School in Moscow at the age of fifteen. Saratovsky then was accepted to enroll at the Moscow State Conservatory under the guidance of Professor Elena Richter. He graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory with the Academic Excellence Award in 2010, and completed his Masters in 2013. Saratovsky`s development is followed by world renowned artists such as Dmitry Bashkirov, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, Philippe Entremont, Jerome Lowenthal, Michel Beroff, Robert Roux and Artiom Agazhanov. Nikolai Saratovsky is the prizewinner of numerous major international piano competitions including Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Ferrol International Piano Competition, Andorra International Piano Competition, Porto International Piano Competition, and many others.
His talent for educating a growing generation of young musicians has led to giving master classes and public lectures. Nikolai Saratovsky is regularly invited to conduct master classes in Japan and has recently appeared as a guest clinician in a series of master classes in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Spain, Poland, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. In 2008, Nikolai Saratovsky took part in the Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) where he studied under guidance of professor Jerome Lowenthal. In 2012, he participated in the 31st Yokohama International Piano Concert at Minato Mirai Small Hall. In 2014, Nikolai Saratovsky took part in a workshop for the children in the Minato Mirai Great Hall in Yokohama and at a Japanese elementary school for children with disabilities.
Nikolai Saratovsky has performed in major concert halls around the world including the Great, Small, and Rachmaninoff Halls of the Moscow Conservatory; Taipei National Concert Hall; Weiwuing Concert Hall in Kaohsiung; Brussels Royal Conservatory Hall; Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Luxembourg Philharmonic. He has appeared in concert engagements in Russia, Belgium, England, Norway, Spain, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Bangladesh, Belarus, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand. Nikolai Saratovsky has performed with symphony orchestras in Russia, the United States, Portugal, Spain, and Japan. In 2021 Nikolai made his debut performances with the National Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan) and the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan. He has also been collaborating with different instrumentalists of an international caliber. Recently, he has established a cultural exchange project between Russia and Japan, which involves a series of master classes for the young musicians regularly held in Moscow. His newest CD was released in November 2018 in the presence of the Russian Ambassador in Luxembourg. Since February 2020, Nikolai Saratovsky is a full time Piano Professor at the Music Department of National Taipei University of Education (Taiwan). Since 2025 – C. Bechstein artist.